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Laura Fisher is an interdisciplinary artist who incorporates drawing, printmaking, and textiles to create a dialogue between past and present, weaving together the threads of lesser-told stories in order to reposition history toward a more personal, human-centered context. Reflecting on concepts such as displacement, identity, memory, and questioning the notion of ‘home’, her work simultaneously serves as a visual conversation, a call to community, and a tribute to the grief inherent in traumatic histories.
Laura holds a B.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.F.A. from Paris College of Art, and her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe. She currently lives and works in Paris, France, where she teaches drawing as an adjunct professor at the American University of Paris, and was recently named a 2023-2024 Schaeffer fellow.
In May 2023, Laura completed a residency at Holocaust Centre North in Huddersfield, England. Exploring HCN’s extensive archive and engaging with survivors and their family members, she researched the role of textiles in Holocaust refugees’ lives, whether it was through hobby, handicraft, or labor. Her latest work (Space Between and Red Cross Blankets), created in response to these histories, challenges how we perceive the residual trauma of the Holocaust and questions how it continues to inform both cultural and social memory.
Laura holds a B.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.F.A. from Paris College of Art, and her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe. She currently lives and works in Paris, France, where she teaches drawing as an adjunct professor at the American University of Paris, and was recently named a 2023-2024 Schaeffer fellow.
In May 2023, Laura completed a residency at Holocaust Centre North in Huddersfield, England. Exploring HCN’s extensive archive and engaging with survivors and their family members, she researched the role of textiles in Holocaust refugees’ lives, whether it was through hobby, handicraft, or labor. Her latest work (Space Between and Red Cross Blankets), created in response to these histories, challenges how we perceive the residual trauma of the Holocaust and questions how it continues to inform both cultural and social memory.