Jean Fisher

Jean M Fisher
Jean Fisher
Born	October 17, 1942 Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Nationality	British
Alma mater	BSc (Hons) Zoology, University of Durham, PhD Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University
Occupation	writer
Years active	1966-present
Website	http://www.jeanfisher.com

Jean Fisher is a UK-based art critic. Her research explores the intertwined legacies of colonialism and the emergent conflicts of globalization in Ireland, Native America, the Black Atlantic and more recently Palestine.^[1] She studied zoology and fine art. In the 1980s in New York City she contributed regularly to Artforum International. At that time she curated exhibitions of contemporary Native American art with the artist Jimmie Durham. In New York she taught in the School of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Whitney Independent Study Program.

From 1992 to 1999 Fisher was editor of the international quarterly Third Text. Her publications include the anthologies Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts (1994), Reverberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency (2000), Vampire in the Text, a collection of her writings published by InIVA in 2003, with a preface by Cuauhtémoc Medina ^[2] and, with Gerardo Mosquera, Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (2004).^[3][4]

She has written on the work of numerous artists including Francis Alÿs, Black Audio Film Collective, Sonia Boyce, James Coleman, Lili Dujourie, Willie Doherty, Jimmie Durham, Edgar Heap of Birds, Susan Hiller, Tina Keane, and Gabriel Orozco, and has contributed essays to the catalogues to the Venice Biennale (1997), Johannesburg Biennale (1997), Inside the Visible (1998), Carnegie International (1999), Documenta 11 (2002), the Sharjah Biennial (2005), 18th Biennale of Sydney: All Our Relations (2012).

Fisher has taught on the Curating MA programme at the Royal College of Art, London, and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University.^[5][6]

References

1. Fisher, Jean. "Tate Papers: The Other Story and the Past Imperfect". Tate. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
2. Vampire in the Text. InIVA. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
3. Fisher, Jean. "Over Here". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
4. "Over Here". amazon.com. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
5. "Professor Jean Fisher". Middlesex University London. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
6. "Jean Fisher". Middlesex University. Retrieved 8 February 2014.