Noah Fischer grew up in the Buddhist Community of Green Gulch Farm, north of San Francisco. For ten years, New York has been the base for explorations into space, light, people, and activism.  His exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006) at the Oliver Kamm Gallery and Electrical Forest (2009) at the Art Center of the Capital Region explore American mythology through lo-tec electric sound/light spectacle. Fischer has worked internationally. After attending Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1999) and Columbia University (MFA 2004) he received a Fulbright to the Netherlands to study 19th century painted panoramas. There he also began an ongoing collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co. Andcompany&Co + Noah Fischer & Co have toured the stages of Europe with works such as Time Republic (2007) which explores nostalgia for the Cold War. He has also organized projects in Southern India (Transtrends Forum, 2010). Fischer is the curator of the No-Eyes Viewing Wall at Brooklyn Zen Center and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute in New York City. In the Summer of 2011, in response to the current economic crisis, Noah Fischer and the Aaron Burr Society collaborated on a series of performances called the Summer of Change (www.summerofchange.net) Starting on the first day of summer, June 21st, the artists publicly distributed hundreds of dollars in coins on Wall Street. These performances ended on September 22, 2011, the sixth day of Occupy Wall Street.  Because of the natural convergence of these actions, he was present at Occupy Wall Street as performer and activist since the first day of the occupation. He is deeply involved in actions such as Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums.

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

Exhibitions/Projects

2012 Truth is Concrete, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

2012 Going UP, 

2012 Occupy Museums at the 7th Berlin Biennial Berlin, Germans

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 Other Exhibitions/Performance

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. 

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

Publications & Press--(see press section as well)

2012 Camera Austria, "Occupy A Museum Near You" interview with Joanna Warsza and Florian Malzacher.

2012  Art in America, “Art and the 99%” by Erin Sickler.

2011  Inquiring Mind, “Occupying Tension”, Winter 2011

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

2011  M/E/A/N/I/N/G, “Trauma, the Subway, and the Voice” Winter 2011

2011  Zen Monster “Preparing for an American Revolution” Fall 2011

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” by Michaela Reichart 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, Belgium), “Le Monde dan un Regard” by Jean-Marie Wynants             5/13/08

2008  

Arte News (Brussels Belgium), “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”  by Cees van Hoore

2004 Columbia News, “Artists Defy Limits of Traditional Canvas” 05/15/04

2004 Boston Herald “Drawing Attention” by Joanne Silver, 01/01/03