Julia Fish
Professor
Studio Arts
jfish@uic.edu
juliafish.com

Fall 2009 Courses

AD 203 - Topics in Drawing Studio I  [4 hours ]
10342: LEC, MW 9:00–9:40am, Art and Design Hall #5202
10341: LAB, MW 10:00–11:40am, Art and Design Hall #5202

AD 304 - Advanced Topics in Drawing  [4 hours ]
30584: LEC, MW 9:00–9:40am, Art and Design Hall #5202
30583: LAB, MW 10:00–11:40am, Art and Design Hall #5202

AD 332 - Topics in Painting  [4 hours ]
25169: LEC, MW 1:00–1:50pm, Art and Design Hall #5100
25168: LAB, MW 2:00–3:40pm, Art and Design Hall #5100

AD 499 - Cooperative Education  [0 to 4 hours ]
10440: COP, by appointment

AD 531 - Advanced Studio Arts  [5 hours ]
10554: CNF, by appointment
10565: LAB, by appointment


Biography:

Julia Fish was born in Oregon and has lived and worked in Chicago since 1985. She received the BFA degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1976, and MFA degree from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1982. Her paintings and drawings have been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Terra Museum of American Art; Chicago Cultural Center; the MAK Center for Art and Architecture / Schindler House, Los Angeles; and the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, among many others. Her work has been presented in twenty solo exhibitions since 1980, and was the subject of a ten-year survey exhibition at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago in 1996.

Fish received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1991, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting in 1993, the Cal Arts / Alpert and Ucross Residency Prize in 2001, and has been granted research and travel awards from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is Professor of Studio Arts in the School of Art and Design, College of Architecture and the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, among others.

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