St. Olaf College

Julia Fish

Contemporary
United States
b. 1950
View objects by this artist.

Julia Fish was born in 1950 in Toledo, Oregon. Fish received her BFA in 1976 from the Museum Art School of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, before going on to receive her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art within the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1982. From 1982 until 1985, Fish served as a visiting artist and assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of Iowa. During her time in Iowa, her work became less abstract and she began to work on a smaller scale.
In 1985, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, and around the same time married the sculptor Richard Rezac. Her works were shown in a number of exhibitions throughout the United states. In the 1990s, Fish began to work on small paintings of objects in her direct vicinity, such as floor tiles and views seen through her windows. During the 2000s, her representations of these objects became more abstracted in her art pieces, conveying more motion. Much of her work focuses on architecture. She continues to live and work in Chicago.

Madison Duran ‘20
March 2019

Sources:

“Art 50 2012: Chicago's Artists' Artists.” Newcity Art, 3 Sept. 2018,
www.art.newcity.com/2012/09/19/art-50-chicagos-artists-artists/.
“Julia Fish.” Julia Fish Chicago Painter, www.juliafish.com/.
“Julia Fish.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Dec. 2018,
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Fish.