Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn based artist. His exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006) at the Oliver Kamm Gallery and Electrical Forest (2009) at the Art Center of the Capital Region have explored technological, political, and social progress by way of lo-tec electrical sound/light installations and assembly-lines.
After attending Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1999) and Columbia University (MFA 2004) Fischer received a Fulbright scholarship (support from the US goverment!) to the Netherlands to study 19th century painted panoramas. There he initiated an ongoing collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co, touring the stages of Europe with works such as Time Republic (2007) which explores nostalgia for the Cold War and finds hope beyond late Capitalism. He has also organized projects in Southern India (Random Randal, Transtrends Forum, 2010). Fischer is the curator of the No-Eyes Viewing Wall at Brooklyn Zen Center and teaches in the sculpture department at Rhode Island School of Design. Since 2011, Fischer's art and life activities have merged with the culture and energy and aim of the global protest movement, from which he initiated Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums. He is currently engaged with exploring a social change role for cultural institutions and making money-sculpture.
N O A H M. F I S C H E R
Education
2005 Fulbright Scholar (Independent Art Research), Netherlands
2004 MFA (Visual Art: New Genres) Columbia University New York
1999 BFA (Sculpture, Art History) Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI
Teaching
2010- Critic, Rhode Island School of Design Sculpture Department
2011 Adjunct Professor, Pratt Institute New Media Department
2005-6 Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, New York Sculpture and Drawing
Solo Projects
2011 Summer of Change (performance series) Wall Street, New York, NY
2011 Coin Return, Artist Project, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010 Random Randal, R.L.V. College of Music and Fine Arts, Cochin, India
2009 Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2008 Monitor, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Pop Ark, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwbug Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Rhetoric Machine, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery. New York
2002 Portraits, Wriston Gallery. Lawrence University
1995 Objects, Zen Center Art Gallery. San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performance
2012 Occupied Biennial, curated by Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza (with Occupy Museums), 7th Berlin Bienniale.
2012 It’s the Political Economy , Stupid, performance at opening, Austrian Cultural Forum, NY
2011 Occupy Printed Matter, Window Installation, New York
2011 White Box Gallery, performance collaboration with Larry Lit, New York
2011 Sweetcake Enso, Garrison Institute, New York.
2010 Lady Liberty: Story of a Torch Singer with Kalup Linzy, AIR Radio, New York
2010 Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, New York
2010 Thunder and Lightening, Brooklyn Zen Center. Brooklyn. New York
2009 Programmed, The Mac Support Store, Brooklyn, New York
2008 The Green Project, Claire Oliver Gallery, Miami
2008 Political Winter Redux, Molloy College, New York
2008 North East West Galarie Lavignes Bastille, Paris
2008 New, Next, Now, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
2008 Photo-Electric, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
2007 Time Republic Tour with andcompany& Co, Steirishcer Herbst, Graz, Austria (Premier), Tour: Sophiensaele, Berlin, Riethalle, Zurich
2007 Klein Zaal Gaat Groot, De Vishaal, Haarlem, Netherlands
2006 Revotionary Timing, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
2006 Nada Art Fair, Oliver Kamm Gallery, Miami
2005 Playground, Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands
2005 Art Brussels, Oliver Kamm 5Be Gallery. Brussels, Belgium
2005 Virtutues Fears RC de Ruimte, Ijmuiden, Netherlands
2004 Re:New, Columbia University. New York
2004 RISD Biennial curated by Shamin Momin. Claire Oliver, New York
2004 Columbia Thesis Exhibition curated by Ali Subotnick. New York
2004 Fellow’s Invitational, Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Provinetown
2003 Rally, Triple Candie. New York, NY
2003 Snap Emanuel College Art Gallery. Boston, MA
2002 Five Fictions, Bernard Toale Gallery. Boston, MA
2001 Boston Drawing Show, curated by Bill Arning, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Curation
2012 Silence and Noise, No-Eyes Viewing Wall, Brooklyn Zen Center, NY
2011 Zen Monster, No-Eyes Viewing Wall, Brooklyn Zen Center, NY
2011 Claudia Vieira: Double Trace No-Eyes Viewing Wall, Brooklyn Zen Center, NY
2011 Ellen Driscoll and Robert Oxnam: Washed Up, No-Eyes Viewing Wall BZC, NY
2010 Ms. Wallace, No-Eyes Viewing Wall, Brooklyn Zen Center, NY
2010 Daily Cloud at Brooklyn Zen Center. Brooklyn, New York
2010 Thunder and Lightening at Brooklyn Zen Center. Brooklyn, New York
2007 Noah Fischer and Co. Presents Time Republic, LMCC Swing Space, featuring Kalup Linzy
2006 From Postwar to Postmodernism , 50 years of Visual Arts at Columbia (co-curated), Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
2006 Noah Fischer and Co. Presents LMCC Swing Space, featuring Jutta Koether
2005 Virtutues Fears, RC de Ruimte, Haarlem, Netherlands.
2003 Lordship and Bondage, Neiman Gallery, with Kara Walker, Jon Kessler, Derek Adams Marc Handelman. Columbia University, New York
Lectures, Panels, and Workshops
2012 Truth is Concrete, 24 Hour Marathon Camp, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz Austria
2012 Symposium on Sustainability and Art, Central European University, Budapest
2011 The Significance of Art in OWS, Left Forum, New York
2010 Inter-visualities,Trans-Trends Forum, RLV College, Kochi, Kerala
Published Essays
2012 “Random Randal, Global,” SalonIndus.com, first issue (forthcoming)
2011 UN-Friezing Art for the 1%, Occupy.com
2011 “Occupying Tension” Inquiring Mind, Spring issue
2011 “Occupy Museums Manifesto (OWS)” Art Fag City.com, Washington Post, etc.
2011 “Trauma, the Subway, and the Voice” M/E/A/N/I/N/G 25th anniversary issue
2010 “Zen & the Art of American Revolution,” Zen Monster issue #3
Press/Interviews
2012 Russia Today television, OWS Talents and Ideas replace crowds on US streets, 10/12
2012 CNN.com “Power: a digital arts gallery” 8/12
2012 Haaretz, “Go Because Everyone is Running” 6/12
2012 Art in America, “Art and the 99%” by Erin Sickler.
2012 Art Monthly, “The Occupy Effect on Contemporary Art” 9/12
2012 Frieze DE “An Occupied Biennial”
2011 Columbia Spectator, “Speaking with Noah Fischer, Occupy Museums creator” 12/03/11
2011 Art Fag City, “Why Karen Archy is Wrong About Occupy Museums” 10/21/11
2011 New York Times Artsbeat “Taking the Protests to the Art World, 10/21/11
2010 Kochivibe: The Inter University workshop on “InterVisuality”
2009 Art21.org “Electrical Forest: Made in Troy” Flash Points series.
2008 Timeout New York, “Noah Fischer, Monitor” by T.J Carlin 11/10/08
2008 Rhizome.org, “The Monitors” by Tyler Coburn 10/11/08
2008 Herbst Theorie Zur Praxis, (Graz, Austria) “Save the World” by Noah Fischer, 09/01/08
2008 Kronen Zeitung (Graz, Austria) “Hilfe bei Notfallen und globalen Katastropehn” 10/04/08
2008 NEW Magazine, “Pop Ark” by Paul Kahn, 09/01/08
2008 Focus Vif (Brussels, Belgium), “Rhetoric Machine/Pop Ark” by M.V. 5/16/08
2008 Le Soir (Brussels), “Le Monde dan un Regard” Jean-Marie Wynants 5/13/08
2008
Arte News, “Un Festival Alarmiste Main Pas Fataliste” by Martine Dubois 5/01/08
2006 Artfagcity.com, “Best of 2006” by Paddy Johnson
2006 JamesWagner.com, “Noah Fischer at Oliver Kamm” by James Wagner 12/06
2006 NEW Magazine, The Crowds” by Noah Fischer 09/06
2006 NYarts Mazagine, “Noah Fischer: Rhetoric Machine” by Elwyn Palmerton 5/01/08
2006 New York Times, “Noah Fischer, Rhetoric Machine” by Holand Cotter, 12/29/06
2006 Village Voice Best of Show by RC Baker, 12/07/06
2006 Timeout New York, “Noah Fischer” by Joe Wolin.
2006 Journal Frankfurt. “Stopp! Würfelwurf. Theaterrevolutionäre” by Esther Boldt,
2005 Haarlem Dagblad “Schilderijen Vincent Van Gogh Vertellen Over Theo’s Martelaarschap”
2004 Columbia News, “Artists Defy Limits of Traditional Canvas” 05/15/04
2004 Boston Herald “Drawing Attention” by Joanne Silver, 01/01/03