Holly Fisher

Holly Fisher is an emerging artist, writer, and arts educator based in San Diego, California. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with minors in Art History and Environmental Policy from the University of San Diego in 2024. She has been the recipient of multiple grants including Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (2023), ASG Student Travel Grant (2024), and DAA+AH Materials Grant (2023-24). She has been awarded the Copley Library Research Award (2023), with her paper Maya Lin: Memorial as Politic published in the Copley Library E-Reserves. She also has published writing in San Diego based HereIn Journal. She currently serves as a Teaching Artist at ArtReach San Diego.

Fisher’s multidisciplinary art practice spans analog and camera-less photography, drawing, painting, and textile sculpture. Her work examines the theoretical and lived intersectionality between feminism, environmental issues, reproductive rights, and inherited histories. Connecting the feminist corporeal to the terrestrial, she works with the natural cyanotype process to develop a relationship between her body, lineage, and the natural cycles of life, birth, death and decay. Her drawings depict fragmented textures and body parts of her and her female relatives. Fisher’s work urges a contemplation on the interconnectivity of life, weaving an inherited past with the landscape of an ever changing future.