contact: roselynnfisher8@gmail.com

Her path to photography and microscopy was fostered by earlier mixed media painting and assemblage, at play with juxtapositions, perspectives, pattern, and story.

Traversing aerial vistas and microscopic domains, her investigations include tears and bees, ocean, bone, and a range of fluids and tissues. Her recent work includes contemplations on dust.

She is the author of two books of photomicrographs: The Topography of Tears, a visual study of tears through an optical microscope, and BEE, ultra-close views of honeybees up to 5000x via SEM -scanning electron microscope.

Her work has been featured by Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, The Marginalian, among many international publications and press.

Fisher's work is included in international solo and group exhibitions in galleries, festivals, and museums of art, science, and natural history, and in 2024 included in a variety of exhibitions listed below.

She is represented by Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, recently exhibiting her series, Stardust: Bone & Botticelli, presented with the Getty's intiative, PST ART: Art & Science Collide.

2026  EXHIBITIONS:

Festival La Nuu 2026 International Photo Festival
Rubi, Spain
curated by Carles Mercader
October 2 - 31, 2026

2025  EXHIBITIONS:

GETTY Center
Research Institute Galleries
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women
curators: Isotta Poggi, Marjorie Ornston, and 10x10 Photobooks founders Russett Lederman and Olga Yatskevitch
April 8 - May 11, 2025
VIDEO CLIP

MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
WATER PRESSURE: Designing for the Future
curators: Marlies Wirth, and MK&G
Erika Pinner, Jane Withers Studio
May 21 - Sept 7, 2025

University of Iowa Health Care Project Art, Iowa City
The Topography of Tears
curators: Bruce Scherting, and Anna Villareal
Oct 13, 2025 - Mar 30, 2026

2024  EXHIBITIONS:

Villa Medici
Rome, Italy
The Siren Song
curated by Caroline Courrioux,
and Sam Stourdzé
October 4 - January 13
Journées Bleues conf Dec 5

Museum of Design, Zurich
Water: Designing for the Future
curators: Nora Wüthrich, Erika Pinner, Jane Withers Studio
November 29 - April 6
Video

Craig Krull Gallery
PST Art: Art & Science Collide
Stardust: Bone & Botticelli
Santa Monica, CA
August 31 - October 12

Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury, VT
An Invitation to Awe
curated by Katy Smith Abbott
Sept 13 - December 8

MK&G, Hamburg, Germany
WATER PRESSURE: Designing for the Future
curators: Erika Pinner (MK&G)
and Jane Withers Studio
Mar 14 - Oct 13, 2024
JWithers interview

Munkeruphus Museum (DK)
Superorganism
curators: Anna Maria Orrù, Morten Søndergaard, Annesofie Becker
May 25 - October 10

Écomusée du Marais Salant
Ile de Re, France
Cohésion, larmes de sel
curated by Aurélie GATLE
June 29 - Nov 1

World Museum Liverpool
BEES: A story of survival
curated by Wolfgang Buttress
May 4, 2024 - May 5, 2025
incl micrographs from Bee series

2023 EXHIBITIONS / FILM

All Ends Well
Directed by Miroslav Janek
won Czech Lion Award for
Best Documentary of 2023
(incl micrographs from Bee series)

Robert Berman Gallery
Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Focus on Women in Photography
February 14 - March 14

Torrance Art Museum
Torrance, CA
Art and Med
curated by Ted Meyer
July 22 - Sept 9

2022 EXHIBITIONS:

Virtual
Daughters
Curated by Ama Verdonckt
June 15, 2022 - ongoing

2020 EXHIBITIONS:

RESUME

EDUCATION
1978            BFA from Otis College of Art and Design (formerly Otis Art Institute), Los Angeles, 1976-78
1973-75       UCLA, UC Santa Cruz

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - GALLERY & MUSEUM (selected)

2025            Medical Museum, University of Iowa Health Care Project Art, Iowa City, IA, The Topography of Tears

2024            Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Stardust: Bone & Botticelli
                      presented with Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide

2019            Hoyt Gallery, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA, N370S/L444P : Inside Out  link

2017            Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The Topography of Tears link

2014            Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax, NS, Canada, Bee info review

2013            Museum of Science, Boston, The Honeybee Revealed

2012            Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Yonder link

2012            Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, PA, BEEyond link

2012            Piermont Straus Gallery, Piermont, NY, Bee

2011            Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington DC. The Landscape of Bees link

2010            Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, BEE link

2010            ML Bean Life Science Museum, BYU, Provo, UT, BEEyond link

2010            Farmani Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Bee

2008            Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Liminal Spaces/Morocco

2007            Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK, mid-career survey: Here and There: The Worlds of Rose-Lynn Fisher

2006            Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Liminal Spaces: Photographs of Morocco by Rose-Lynn Fisher link

2006            Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, CA, The Olive Grove

2006            Brevard Museum of Art and Science (now Foosaner Art Museum), Melbourne, FL, Doggedly BEEyond info

2004            Jewish Cultural Center, Chattanooga, TN, Drinking from the Same Well  info

2003            Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Drinking from the Same Well: Jewish & Muslim Co-existence in Morocco

2003            Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono, The Children of Yesterday details 

2002            Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, The Present in the Past: Photographs of Morocco by Rose-Lynn Fisher

2000            Gallery of Contemporary Art, Umm el-Fahm, Israel, Essential Means

1998            Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Home/Homeland               

1995            Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA, Fruits of the Negev

1991            Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Other Places

1989            Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Events of Order and Necessity

1987            Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Interfaces

MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024            Royal Museum Ontario, Toronto, CA, BEEs: A Story of Survival

2025            Getty Center, Los Angeles, GRI Gallery, What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
                    RLF video clip

2024-5         Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, The Siren Song

2025            MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, Water Pressure: Designing for the Future

2024            Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland Water: Designing for the Future

2024            MK&G, Museum für Kunst Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Water Pressure: Designing for the Future / Catalog

2024            Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, An Invitation to Awe

2024            Écomusée du Marais Salant, France, Cohésion, larmes de sel

2024            MUNKERUPHUS Contemporary Art, Denmark, Superorganisme

2024            World Museum Liverpool, UK, BEEs: A Story of Survival

2020            TextielMuseum, Tilburg, NL, The Art of Lace

2019            Maloka Museum, Bogota, Colombia, The Science of Love and Forgiveness

2018            Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark, (installation of 48 tear images) Wunderkammer 1 - liquid form info

2018            Museum of Lace and Fashion, Calais, FR, Haute Dentelle, link

2018            Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL The Human Insect: Antenna Architectures 1887 - 2017 link

2018            Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, Calif, California Nature link

2015            Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, Le Bord des Mondes link

2014            Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment link review

2012            Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Honey and the Hive link

2012            Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, UNNATURAL link

2011            Wave Hill, Bronx NY, Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee link

2007            Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Judith Ellis Glickman Collection link

2004            United States Botanic Garden, Orangerie Gallery, Washington D.C. Great Pollinator Partnership

2003            Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda Inside & Out: House & Home  

2003            Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel Journey to No End of the World

2002            Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, Journey to No End of the World

2002            United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY,  eMotion Pictures

2002            Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA;  eMotion Pictures

2002            Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, Jewish Artists: On the Edge

2000            The Jewish Museum New York, Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land link

1998            Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Israel Through American Eyes: A Century of Photographs

1993            Arad Art Museum, Arad, Israel, 4 Guests at the Museum

1987            Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Undercover: Books by California Women Artists

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Galleries/Universities/Public ArtSpaces

2018            Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, Science as Muse link

2016            Bakalar & Paine Galleries at MassArt, Boston, Encircling the World: Contemporary Art, Science, and the Sublime link

2016            Sloan Projects, Santa Monica, CA, Body of Research link

2014            Gallery Tanto Tempo, Kobe, Japan, Tanto Tempo 7 link

2014            Woeske Gallery, Berlin, Germany, (2-person) Matter of Prospect

2014            Cross-Mackenzie Gallery, Washington D.C. Space link

2013            Ganna Walska Lotusland, Santa Barbara, CA, Swarm: A Collaboration with Bees

2011            UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Learning Resource Center, LA, CA, Art Via Microscope info

2010            Isik University Gallery, Istanbul, concurrent w/ Istanbul Biennial; Zirrat Bankasi Gallery, Ankara, Turkey, Trade Show

2010            Minarc Gallery Skart, Santa Monica, CA, Group SC 2009: An Intimate View of Southern CA, MOPLA/ Month of Photography LA info

2007            Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA, 35th Anniversary Exhibition

2007            LA Artcore Brewery, Los Angeles, CA, Scape: Work by Rose-Lynn Fisher, Yoshio Ikezaki, Stephen Johns

2006            D.C. Arts Center, Washington D.C., From Sea to Shining Sea

2004            Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC, summer group show

2000            Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Jewish Artists: On the Edge

1986            Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Small Shrines

1986            Gallerie Perseo Centroartivisive, Florence, Italy, Per fare un albero

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS

2026            Festival La Nuu, Rubi, Spain, International photo festival: The face as a map, link

2016            STATE Festival for open science, art and society: EMOTION: The sentimental machine, Berlin, Germany link

2016            Asia Now, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France, Women's Independence, curated by Magda Danysz

2016            Art in the City Festival, K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China, Women's Independence, curated by Magda Danysz

2016            PondyPhoto 2016, Old Fort, Pondicherry, India, WATER / The Kitchen Sink link

2014            PHOTOPOLIS: Halifax Festival of Photography, Nova Scotia, Canada link

2013,14       Mt Rokko International Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan

PUBLISHED BOOKS

2017            The Topography of Tears, Rose-Lynn Fisher. Bellevue Literary Press, NY

2010            BEE, Rose-Lynn Fisher. Princeton Architectural Press, NY, hardcover, 2012, 2018 paperback

Included in these books:

2023            Awe, by Dacher Keltner. Penguin Press, NY, p173-178 link

2023            Book cover art, Demole atomos - Acerca de un poema de Paul Celan, by Michael G. Levine. Ediciones Metales Pesados link

2020            Savoir & Faire: Les Textiles, by Hugues Jacquet, (in chapter French Lace by Sophie Henwood, p.116), Actes Sud, FR, link

2019            Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body, multiple editors, Phaidon, p.193 link

2018            What's Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art, by Linda Weintraub, Intellect Books, UK. link

2018            Book cover art: Requiem for en kornmark, by Ditte Steensballe, Jensen & Delgaard, DK. link

2018            Book cover art: Eleanor or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, by Anna Moschovakis, Coffee House Press. link

2017            Where Honeybees Thrive, by Heather Swan, chapter: The Microscopic Sublime: The Art of Rose-Lynn Fisher, Penn State Univ Press, PA

2015            Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles, Edited by Jane Brown, Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Metropolis Books, NY, p.164, 238, 244 link

2014            La/crime/ndays, poetry by Giovanna Iorio, cover + interior images: Rose-Lynn Fisher. CFR Edizioni, Rome info/link

2012            New Zealand Ministry of Education. The Buzz of Bees -distributed to NZ school system. Photograph p.5 info

2007            Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Catalogue:"Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Judith Ellis Glickman Collection" collection list

2004            Book cover art and design: Mihai Spariosu. Global Intelligence and Human Development:Toward an Ecology of Global Learning, MIT Press. link

2003            Ori Z. Soltes. Inside & Out: House & Home, Bermuda National Gallery, catalogue, p.6,44,46-7; Pl. 27,30; figs 1,54,55,58

2002            Ori Z. Soltes. Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the 20th Century, Brandeis University Press/UPNE p121-122, 156 link

2000            Vivian Mann. Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, Merrell Publishers, London; Photographs. figs.26,46,47,55,56,57,68,69,70,71,76

1998            Barbara C. Gilbert. Israel Through American Eyes: A Century of Photography  Catalogue, Skirball Museum.p.36-38

UPDATED PRESS - BLOGS (click here for press links up to 2026)

PROJECTS, EVENTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES (highlights)

2017           Collaboration with Stephen Walters & Sons (UK) for 2018 collection, silk weave adapted from bee image link

2015           Ongoing collaboration with Darquer Lace of Calais, France, in creation of Chantilly lace adapted from tear photomicrographs link

2014           Topography of Tears series - 2nd Place, International Photography Awards (IPA) link

2010            BEE - International Photography Awards (IPA): winner in Book: Nature link

2010            MOPLA - Month of Photography LA, Pro'Jekt LA 5: Sustenance and Sustainability: Focused Projects to Raise Awareness and Effect Change info

2010            MOPLA - GroupSC 2009: An Intimate View of Southern CA info

2009            The Forward Thinking Museum, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, "BEEyond" link

2008            World Festival of Sacred Music, Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Los Angeles, Masar Wa Nisae- The Woman's Path, projections/ Morocco photos- info

2006            Palm Springs Photo Festival, screened projection of BEEyond series; competition finalist

2006            BEEyond series - 1st Place, International Photography Awards (IPA): Special-Micro category

1999            Artist in residence, Mishkan Omanim, Herzliya, Israel, two months

1998            Morocco photo/research Jewish heritage, Jewish/Muslim co-existence, Draa and Tafilalet valleys, Sahara 6 weeks

1997            Grant, Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, Los Angeles

1995            Artist in residence, Community Ster Van David, Gooreind-Wuustwezel, near Antwerp, Belgium, two months

1995            Morocco long-term photo/research project, Jewish & Muslim culture and saint veneration, two months

1992            Artist in residence, Arad Arts Project, Arad, Israel, eight months

1989            Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

1989            Grant, Brody Arts Fund, Los Angeles, CA