About

BIO

Simone Fischer (b.1991, Portland, OR) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who specializes in documentary photography, alt printmaking, archives, installation, and sculpture. She earned a BS in gender studies & philosophy at Portland State University in 2013, and an MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2020. Simone now serves as the gallery manager of Artspace111 a contemporary art gallery located in Fort Worth, Texas.

PHOTOGRAPHIC OPEN CALL: EXHIBITION I CURATED BY SIMONE FISCHER

Simone photographs and prints as a source of power and visual storytelling. Her work asks aesthetic questions about memory as landscape, possession, and allocation of power. Conceptually, Simone uses photography, acid, and steel to coalesce internalized ideas about identity, time, and social disorder. Using steel, photography, and other ubiquitous materials of industry, Simone coalesces ideas about Minor White’s ideas on the photo “equivalent”, emotive abstraction, and photo materiality. Simone works with steel and the poetics of iron, blood, and the body and views steel as an elemental relative. Simone was the recipient of The Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Make|Learn|Build Grant in 2022 and 2021; and the Oregon Arts Commission Arts Relief Grant in 2022.

Simone’s most recent solo exhibition just wait until next year, April 2023 presented by After/Time Gallery in Portland, OR. Pour the Water as I Leave, The Nines Gallery, Blue Sky Gallery generously supported by Converge 45 (Portland, OR) August 2023. Simone’s first institutional solo exhibition UNINCORPORATED located in the B10 Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University in 2022. Simone was selected as the Artist-in-Residence for the Intermedia Program at PNCA for Fall 2021 semester where she curated the BFA intermedia program student group show Future Ephemera. Simone co-curated the 2022 MFA Low Residency Thesis Exhibition Series Every Corner is Alive at PNCA. Simone has exhibited her third solo exhibition OFFAL (2021) at Astoria Visual Arts in Astoria, Oregon. Simone was the 2021 artist-in-residence at After/Time Gallery where she produced her first publication ANTITOURS v1 and solo exhibition A Sermon for Crows (2021). She has exhibited internationally at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany (2020). In October 2019, Simone attended the Caldera Arts Artist in Residence program in Sisters, OR. Her work has been collected by the Visual Chronicle of Portland (2022). Simone has worked on two feature-length films Showing Up (2021) directed by Kelly Reichardt and Sometimes I Think About Dying (2022) directed by Rachel Lambert. Simone is the artistic director and still photographer for Daniela Repas feature film Pour the Water as I Leave (2022) & photographer for Repas short film Dogs of Home in 2020. Simone’s photography has been published in Juxtapoz Magazine (Spring 2023), Artillery Magazine and Bomb Magazine.

Contact Simone:

email: simonef.pdx@gmail.com

IG: @simonefischerr