Born in Budapest, Hungary, Judith Fischer emigrated to Canada in 1968. She was educated at the Alberta College of Art, where she graduated, in 1979, with a diploma in the visual arts. The first period of her career as a painter was spent in Calgary, from 1974 to 1984. During that time exhibitions of her work were held in well-known galleries located in Edmonton, Calgary and other cities. Her work was purchased by many public, corporate and private collections.

In 1984 she moved with her family to Victoria, where she presently resides. Since then she has been an active participant at the local art scene. She has exhibited her work in many solo and juried group shows throughout the province, as well as Toronto, ON; Beijing – China; and Washington, DC. With her first visit to BC, in 1972, she felt the irresistible urge to create and develop a uniquely national artistic style, which would contain the rich motifs and character of the west coast First Nations art.

She wanted to create her own totems which would bridge western art, the ancient native culture of North America, and the European style. In her latest paintings she is not merely recording the surface of life, but she projects forms and ideas which are beyond restricted, tangible reality. Even if the forms and colours of nature are used as a point of departure, the final product is a kind of "Post Cubism". Here the forms gain the right to an independent existence. A number of these acrylic paintings found their way into public and private collections.
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1974 The 2nd annual Uni - Art Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
1979 Graduation Show at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary
1980 One Woman Show. MUTTART Gallery, Calgary
1981 Exhibition of Alberta Cultural Heritage Council, Edmonton
1981 One Woman Show. Kennedy Gallery, Calgary
1981 Annual exhibition of the Canadian Multicultural Association of Calgary
1982 Annual exhibition of the Canadian Multicultural Association of Calgary
1983 Annual exhibition of the Canadian Multicultural Association of Calgary
1983 Studio exhibition, Calgary
1984 Exhibition of the Artnest Gallery. Calgary, Alberta
1986 The third annual juried exhibition at Robson Square MediaCentre,Vancouver,B.C.
1986 Victoria Regional Art Show. Open Space Gallery, Victoria
1986 Exhibition of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
1986 "Images & Objects". British Columbia Festival of the Arts, Prince George, B.C.
1986 "Fine Arts '86" represented by Sooke Regional Museum Art Gallery, B.C.
1986 "Artists of British Columbia" represented by Harrison Galleries, Vancouver, BC.
1987 "BC Artists at the Square '87". The fourth annual juried exhibition at
Robson Square Media Centre. Vancouver, BC.
1987 "Fine Arts '87". Sooke Region Museum Art Gallery
1987 "ARTROPOLIS" Exhibition of contemporary British Columbia Art,Vancouver
1988 Studio exhibition, Victoria
1988 "Fine Arts '88", Sooke Region Museum Art Gallery
1988 Victoria Regional Art Show
1988 Exhibition of D. & T. Ritchie Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1989 Victoria Regional Art Show
1990 Exhibition of the Theosophical Society of Victoria. McPhearson Playhouse
1991 Victoria Regional Art Show
1991 One Woman Show at the "La Boheme" Gallery, Victoria,B.C.
1992 Exhibition of "Victoria Artists" at the Quinn Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
1992 "Fine Arts '92" , Sooke Region Museum Art Gallery, Sooke, B.C.
1993 "Fine Arts '93" , Sooke Region Museum Art Gallery, Sooke, B.C.
1993 Exhibition of "Victoria Artists" at the Quinn Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
1995 Exhibition at Bon Ton Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
1995 "Global Focus". Women in Art and Culture. Participation of Women and Art Technology in the United Nations fourth World Conference on Women. Beijing, China
1995 Exhibition sponsored by the National Museum of Washington, D.C.U.S.A.
1996 Victoria Regional Juried Art Show. Represented by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
1996 One Woman Show. Hidden Space Gallery, Sooke, B.C.
1997 Victoria Regional Juried Art Show. Represented by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
1998 "Two Hungarian - Canadian Artists". Exhibition at the Queen of Peace Parish, Victoria, B.C.
1999 Studio exhibition. Victoria, BC
2001 One Woman Show. Oak Bay Library, Victoria, BC
2002 "Celebrating Green Space II ". Juried art show represented by the Western Communities Arts Council.
2003 “Mythic Quest” International Symbolist Exhibition on the internet.
2004 Sidney Community Art Show
2005 “Myth and Human Destiny” – solo exhibition at the University of Victoria
2005 Fine Arts 2005 at the Sooke Region Museum
2006 Shir Hashirim ----- Song of Songs ---- solo exhibition at the Wings of Peace
Gallery, Victoria, BC.
2006 Ezekiel Project ----at the Wings of Peace Gallery
2006 Mosaic, Wings of Peace Gallery, Temple Emanu El, Victoria, BC.

 

Morys-Edge, Derek. Artists of British Columbia.Vancouver: Chartwell Publishing Company,1986, p. 43.

Grip, Maja and Hurtig,Annette Eds.ARTROPOLIS: Exhibition of contemporary British Columbia Art. Vancouver: Artropolis publishing co,1987, p.94.

Various newspaper articles in: Times - Colonist (May 5, 1990), Times - Colonist (June 29, 1991. Robert Amos's review), Calgary Herald (1980)

Catalogue of the "Fine Arts" of '86, ' 87 , '88, '92, '93, ' 94. (pages: 27, 30, 47, 88, 86 )

Images & Objects IV. BC Festival of the Arts. Prince George, BC 1986 . Page: 4.

"BC Artists at the Square" Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, BC 1986, 1987

"LOOK 91"-- Victoria's Regional Juried ART SHOW presented by the Community

SOMOGY - Literature, Art, Culture - Hungarian Periodical, Volume 28, Number 2., March-April, 2000
page: 134-135. Poems of Massimo Moretti, translated by Judith Fischer

Gyorgy Bodosi - Szep almok vesztohelye - Balaca Books, Veszprem, Hungary, 2001

Arts Council of Greater Victoria. "Celebrating Green Space II" Western Communities
Arts Council, 2002

Gyorgy Bodosi - Don Domani - Var Ucca Muhely Books, 4., Veszprem, Hungary, 2003

Hungarian Studies, Akademia Kiado (volume 19, No. 2. page: 320-321), 2005

Times Colonist (Robert Amos' review, March 10), 2005

Times Colonist (Robert Amos' review, June 22), 2006

The Ezekiel Project's catalogue, page: 35, 2006

Dreams, Prophecies, Visions. Catalogue, title page and page 10-11, 2007
Poster of Dreams, Prophecies, Visions


 
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