Kurt Fisk

Kurt Fisk
comic artist & worldbuilder

Kurt Fisk has been creating and archiving character-driven illustrations that delight and intrigue since the 1970s. Fisk excels at capturing complex emotions with humor and sensitivity. Employing his fine-tipped artist pens and eye for color, he is able to depict the slightest nuances of otherwise-ordinary exchanges.

Fisk finds inspiration in pop culture and kitschy cult horror films of the 1960s and 1970s. His Original Sea Monkey Fishes is a series of illustrations, sculptures, and a short animated film which he crafted in response to the novelty Sea Monkeys starter zoos. The world Fisk creates in Original Sea Monkey Fishes is fun, intricate, and offbeat: Kurt Fisk’s work is worthy of a cult following all its own.
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"I have been making my artwork since 1971. It’s time for people to see what kind of talent I have. I want to say this is what I am doing with these hands."
-Kurt Fisk
Exhibitions & Projects
Artist Chronology

Group Exhibits
2023
"Zine Show"
Salem Art Association
Salem, OR

2023
“Voices From Home”
The Arts Center
Corvallis, OR
2023
“Open House”
Living Studios
Corvallis, OR

2023
"Walk This Way"
Western Oregon University, Cannon Gallery
Monmouth, OR

2022
"Do You See Everyone Under That Applebelly Tree?"
Oregon State University, Memorial Union Gallery
Corvallis, OR
2021
"We Take the Long Way"
Southern Oregon University, Schneider Museum of Art
Ashland, OR

2018
"Storming the Academy"
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

2018
"Salon"
Corvallis Arts Center
Corvallis, OR

2017
"WE .CONSTRUCT. MARVELS. BETWEEN. MONUMENTS."
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR

2015
"Paradise" Postcard Show
Ugly Art Room
Corvallis, OR

2015
"I am"
Corvallis Arts Center
Corvallis, OR

2015
"Comedy"
The Majestic Theater
Corvallis, OR

Solo Exhibits
2016
"Kurt Fisk" Sculpture Art Works
CEI Gallery
Corvallis, OR

2016
"Kurt Fisk"
Corrine Woodman Gallery
Corvallis, OR

2015
"Kurt Fisk"
OSLP Arts & Culture Center, Community Gallery
Eugene, OR

2014
"Into the Unknown"
Prisms Gallery
Salem, OR

2014
"What Took You So Long?"
OUTPOST1000 Pop Up
Corvallis, OR

Publications
2017
"Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fishes"
Patrick Collier
Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project

2017
"Constructing Marvels, Breaking Barriers: We. at the Portland Art Museum"
Lusi Lukova

2015
"What Took You So Long? The Creative Journey of Kurt Fisk"
BrutForce

2014
"This is what I am doing with these hands"
Quickest Flip

2014
"Into the unknown, old work and new work"
Tom Mayhall Restrelli
The Statesman Journal
Salem, OR
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