My name is Laura Fisher and I live inside my head.

I like eating uncooked pasta and watching the news on mute. I'm obsessed with light bulbs and old photographs and hair and the concepts of memory and decay.

I suppose this is my biography. But I don't really know what to put in it. How does one write the story of her own life?

I don't like to talk about myself. Anything I could say in here would just describe my standing in society and in the art world, not my thoughts. I'm a sophomore at DAAP. My major is photography but I don't like working with it in a very traditional way. I also love metalworking and drawing (namely with soft, compressed charcoal or graphite). I've displayed my work at a wide variety of galleries in the past few years (a remarkable fact for someone my age).

I believe in my own imagination and my own ability to create beauty through art. I use drawing frequently to sketch out concepts for pieces before I launch into action. Sometimes, however, I choose to work on longer drawings. In 2007, I made drawings of animals sleeping and then coated them in beeswax. This past year I made a series of self-portraits involving my relationship with my hair and how I can use it to speak what I'm feeling. "Wedlock" is one of these self-portraits.

I'm a person who's always bursting with ideas; I simply wait for the right time to use them.

born: 1989, Cincinnati

education

University of Cincinnati, BFA, 2011

selected awards/honors

29th Annual International College Photography Contest Finalist, Photographer's Forum Magazine, 2009
Merit Award, Best 3D, Space, Place, Life Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University, 2008
The Isabel Meta Wolfstein Foundation Fine Arts Freshman Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 2007
Gold Key Portfolio Winner in both Photography and Art, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2007

selected publications

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center; Mythography Exhibition Catalog. Cincinnati, OH: 2009
Roy G Biv; ImageOhio 9 Exhibition Catalog.  Columbus, OH: 2009.
Photographer's Forum; Best of College Photography Annual 2008.  New York: Hardcover: 2009
Scholastic Books, Inc; Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.  New York: 2007

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Habanero Latin American Restaurant: Some Initial Unanswered Questions, Cincinnati, OH, 2009

selected group shows

Roy G Biv Gallery (held at Shot Tower Gallery): ImageOhio 9, Columbus, Ohio, 2009
Nicholas Gallery: Moving Spectra, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2008
Giles Gallery: Space, Place, Life, Richmond, KY, 2008
Phillip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery: Objectify, Cincinnati, OH, 2008