A resident of New York City, Julie Fisher was born in Miami Florida to a family of artists. Her father photographer Ray Fisher, her mother Sue Fisher, an active member of the art world in New York and Florida. Julie’s grandfather was Concert Master at the Metropolitan Opera, CBS Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, while her grandmother was a dancer with the Chicago Opera Ballet.

Following her grandmother's footsteps, Julie began her professional career as a ballet dancer in Boston, New York and Connecticut until an injury put a premature end to her career. In addition to receiving a Bachelor of Science in Health Education at Hunter College, Julie attended graduate studies at Columbia University, worked as a pastry sous chef in New York city and spent ten years acting and playwriting while supporting herself as a personal trainer and pilates instructor.

Working in multiple creative fields, her need to express herself artistically developed on a deeper level. She began by painting her body and imprinting it on various surfaces and soon found her way back to sculpting which she studied as a child. Sculpting allowed her expression to become tangible. Exploring and improvising, she creates art in two and three dimensions through sculpting and mixed media works.

Surrounded by art her whole life, whether the classics, modern or pop-painting or sculpture the influences are revealed in her expression mending the genres together.  In addition, her career as a dancer and a fitness professional enables her to combine her knowledge of and interest in the body to come forth in her artwork. Studying sculpture in high school then again in the 90's she became full time, intensively at the Art Students League in New York in 2014. The ability to work in three dimensions in a medium that demanded meticulous manual control has increased her expressive potential. Her interest in forcing the viewer to become more attuned to the way in which we speak through our bodies and not just our mouths and faces are represented through her work as isolated parts of the body. Today, her mixed media/body prints inspire her sculpture and vice versa. Above all, Julie is dedicated to fine tuning the details of figurative work and continues to explore and produce both her two and three-dimensional work which are included in multiple collections in New York, Los Angeles, Canada and Florida. 

2022 Directors Scholarship-Art Students League NYC