Vanessa Fischer is an artist from Stony Brook, New York currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She has recently completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Integrated Media at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from CUNY Queens College. Fischer is New York State certified to teach visual art. She teaches photography in the New York City public school system full time.    

Fischer’s art works have been exhibited in major national and international group exhibitions: Salon des Refusés 2024 at the Brooklyn Artists Waterfront Coalition in Brooklyn, New York; Belonging through Visionary Projects based in New York; New York; Photography Now at The Brick Lane Gallery in London, United Kingdom; Through the Lens at The Reboli Center for Art and History in Stony Brook New York; Gesture-International Portrait Exhibition at the Midwest Center of Photography in Wichita, Kansas; I Was Here: An Exhibit of Womxn In Photography, All She Makes, Curated Online Directory For Women Creatives Worldwide; The Living Gallery Virtual Group Instagram Take Over in Brooklyn New York; MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Thesis Exhibition 2019 at Raizes Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Fresh Faces at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; Documenting Village Life 2018 at Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo  in Oaxaca, Mexico; Passion vs Pragmatism at The Art Vacancy in Brooklyn, New York; Flushing Town Hall Alumni Art Show at the Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York; and Snap Into Photography at Queens College in Flushing, New York.    

Fischer’s artistic practice reflects her personal journey and exploration of the loss of her mother at age fourteen with an emphasis on the impact it has on her life. Currently, Fischer is documenting exploring new ways of connecting with her mother and the concept of mothering herself.    

Past and continuing projects include This Way Through the Darkness, a choreographed installation about searching for the essence of her mother and My Mom’s Gesture, a photography project where, in order to get closer to her mother, Fischer photographs women who remind her of her mom and are of the approximate age her own mother would have been today. Fischer also works in alternative photographic processes, as in her series Adult Womb, she photographed a woman underwater in place of herself, distorting the body to mimic a developing baby in a womb, and the series Reflective Memories On My Home, in which she photographed the reflective surfaces around the home where she grew up one month before the home was sold.