Andrew Fish is a painter and printmaker based in Boston, MA. He grew up in Bristol, VT and studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC and earned his MFA from Goddard College in VT. He has attended several artist residencies including the VT Studio Center, Manship Artists Residency + Studio in Gloucester, MA, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, and Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists Residency in North Adams, MA. He is the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Finalist award in Painting, a Somerville Arts Council grant, a NY Studio School Award, and a St. Botolph Club Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally including Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, The Painting Center, NYC, Artzu Gallery in Manchester, UK, and Addison Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC. Fish teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA, and Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. His work explores the intersection of abstraction and representation, using the figure to investigate contemporary society and personal experience.
EDUCATION:
MFA Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
1990 - 1992 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1989 Middlebury College, Art History, Middlebury, VT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2015 - 2023 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA - Digital Drawing and Painting
2016 - 2023 Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA - Drawing and Painting
2023 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA - Printmaking
2016 - 2017 Babson College, Wellesley, MA - MBA Creating workshop
2015 - 2017 Governors Institute on the Arts, Castleton, VT - Painting and Printmaking
WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES:
2019 Red Gate Artists Residency, Beijing, China
2019 SVA Summer Residency, New York, NY
2019 Manship Artists Residency, Gloucester, MA
2018 MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists Residency. North Adams, MA
2015 The League Residency at Vyt. Orangeburg, NY
2014 Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside. Troy, NY
2014 NY Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson. New York, NY
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 JSS in Italy. Painting with Catherine Kehoe. Civita Castellana, Italy
2011 - 2013 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
AWARDS:
Massachusetts Cultural Council award in Painting
St. Botolph Club Fellowship
MARS Artists Residency Fellowship
Assets For Artists Residency Fellowship
Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant
NY Studio School Summer Scholarship Award
The League Residency at VYT, Distinguished Artist Scholarship
CAC Woodside Artist Merit Award, Troy, NY
Curator’s Choice Award. Color. BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2023 ARTI Gallery, Marblehead, MA
Mayors Gallery, City Hall, Boston, MA
2022 Flux Factory & The Cell Theater, Into the Limelight. New York, NY
Nearby Gallery, Big Paintings. Newton, MA
2021 Childs Gallery, Retro Pictures. Boston, MA
One Mile Gallery, Interior/Exterior. Kingston, NY via Artsy.com
2019 Childs Gallery, In the Memory Palace. Boston, MA
2018 Carole Calo Gallery, Seeing Through. Stonehill College, Easton, MA
Hynes Convention Center, Constructing Memory. Boston, MA
2016 Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2015 Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
New England Biolabs, Art Focus. Ipswich, MA
13Forest Gallery, Snapshot. Arlington, MA
2014 Trustman Gallery at Simmons College, Retina Riot. Boston, MA
Regions Gallery, New Bedford Art Museum, Meeting The Shadow. New Bedford, MA
621 Gallery, Meeting The Shadow. Tallahassee, FL
Newton Free Library Gallery, Corpus Casual, Newton, MA
2013 The Center for the Arts, Paintings. Natick, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Parlor Gallery, Playlist, Asbury Park, NJ
Nearby Gallery, This is America, Newton, MA
Jameson & Thompson / Gallery Very, Satellites, Boston, MA
2022 US Embassy, Poland. Dance, Warsaw, Poland
Art League Rhode Island, Synergy: Below the Surface II, Providence, RI
St. Botolph Club, Fellows Exhibition, Boston, MA
2021 Gallery 263, Small Works Project, Cambridge, MA
Curator’s Salon, UK, The Marks We Make (online) London, UK
2020 Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter, Being & Feeling (Alone, Together), Exeter, NH
The Yard, In Manual Mode, Boston, MA
2019 The Painting Center, Patterns of Influence, New York, NY
Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Figure Focus, Boston, MA
2018 Spaceus, Al Vif, Boston, MA
13 Forest at Gallery 444, P-Town Pop-Up, Provincetown, MA
Musa Collective, PaperCuts, Allston, MA
Artzu Gallery, Manchester, UK
2017 Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Space as Narrative, Concord, MA
13 Forest Gallery, State of the Union, Arlington, MA
Atlantic Wharf Gallery, The Future Of Work, Boston, MA
Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Planes in the Sky, Boston, MA
2016 French Cultural Center, In Search of Lost Memory, Boston, MA
Addison / Ripley Fine Art, Infrastructure, Washington, DC
Sloane Merrill Gallery, Escape, Boston, MA
Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston Biennial IV, Boston, MA
2015 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston, MA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Annual AIDS Benefit, Boston, MA
Hillyer Art Space, Perspective. Washington, DC
Cohen Gallery at Goggleworks, I Live Here Now. Reading, PA
Wichita Center for the Arts, National Printmaking Show. Wichita, KS
2014 Plan B Gallery, The General Public. Washington, DC
BWAC, Color. Brooklyn, NY
Aviary Gallery, From Life. Jamaica Plain, MA
UNC, Pembroke. AD Gallery, Figurative Abstraction. Pembroke, NC
Chandler Gallery, Direct / Indirect Small Works 2014. Cambridge, MA
Nave Gallery Annex, Painting Intricacies. Somerville, MA
2013 Select Fair, Art Fair. Torus Collective. Miami, FL
Helen Day Art Center, t/here. Stowe, VT
Attleboro Arts Museum, What Goes Around. Attleboro, MA
Danforth Museum of Art, Community of Artists. Framingham, MA
Fifth Floor Gallery, Doing Pennants. Los Angeles, CA
Pearl Street Gallery, Beauty. Chelsea, MA
Cambridge Art Association, Red. Cambridge, MA
Nave Gallery, Delicious Torment. Somerville, MA
2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Summer pARTy & Auction. Boston, MA
Lincoln Arts Project, Fuck Yeah America!. Waltham, MA
Danforth Museum of Art, Giving Tree Project. Framingham, MA
Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt Annual Auction. Boston, MA
2011 MassArt College President’s Gallery, After Hours. Boston, MA
Samson Projects, Chain Letter Show. Boston, MA
Somerville Museum, Artists Choice Exhibit 2011. Somerville, MA
One Mile Gallery, Foolsgold. Kingston, NY
2010 Work Gallery, I Heart Art, Wassaic Project Show. Brooklyn, NY
Art for Change Gallery, Haiti, Beyond Mountains... New York, NY
Gallery 51, Haiti, Beyond Mountains... North Adams, MA
Somerville Museum, Artists Choice Exhibit. Somerville, MA
2009 Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Drawings that Work. Boston, MA
Lana Santorelli Gallery, Movement. New York, NY
UNC, Pembroke. AD Gallery, The Nude in Contemporary Art. Pembroke, NC
2008 Brickbottom Gallery, Directory Show. Somerville, MA
Lana Santorelli Gallery, Summer Nudes. New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Somerville Times, July 2023
Oxford American, Spring 2023
US State Department catalogue for Art in Embassies, July, 2022
Lamont Gallery Interview, April, 2020
Art Savvy, January 2019
Wall Street International, February 2019
Boston Globe, Critics Pick, February 3, 2019
Boston Voyager, June 2018
Big Red & Shiny, March 2018
Boston Globe, November 2017
James Kalm Rough Cut. Bushwick Open Studios, September 2017
Arts Editor, September 2016
Boston Common Magazine, Summer 2015
Video interview from the website My Son Jean. 2014
The Art Blog November 2014
Radio Open Source May 2014
Quiet Lunch Magazine, Issue #1
Fan Mail: Andrew Fish on Daily Serving July, 2013
MiddleGray Magazine, Issue #5
Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. #24
FlashArt Show. October 2013
deCordova Corporate Art Loan Program
The Somerville Times. Feb. 2013 Delicious Torment at Nave Gallery.
Boston Metro. Feb. 2013 Delicious Torment
Wicked Local, Somerville. Nov. 2012 Vernon St. Murals
Burner Magazine, Issue #3. March 2011 www.burnermag.com