About Me

Deborah Fisher is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn.

Deborah Fisher is a sculptor and published critic whose work focuses on the structural meaning of climate change, or the relationship between the built world and the earth. In August 2007, she completed a large-scale public sculpture entitled Solid State Change for Middlebury College’s Environmental Studies building—the oldest and best-known interdisciplinary environmental studies program in the country. In 2006, her work about global warming was the subject of an article and multi-media presentation in the New York Times, and was featured on the Mother Nature Edition of Public Radio International’s Weekend America, StrangeWeather.info, Thinking About Art, and the blog Christopher Jagers. She received a Puffin Foundation grant for the production of this body of work in 2006. She will be an artist in residence at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, in 2008.

Fisher has exhibited her work at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY; Dangerous Curve and Phantom Galleries LA in Los Angeles; Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT; and the Herbert Marcuse gallery in La Jolla, CA. Her eponymous blog has been noted as recommended reading by Paddy Johnson writing for the New York Foundation of the Arts. Fisher contributes regularly to two online magazines: ArtCal Zine and A Gathering of the Tribes.

Fisher earned a BFA in studio art from the University of Arizona in 1997, and an MFA in visual art from UC San Diego in 2003, where she was a Regents scholar and recipient of the Center for Humanities Research Fellowship.