Painter Albert Fisher was born in Santa Monica, California in 1940. As a child he studied at the Children's Free Creative Art School in Seattle, Washington, founded by artist Mark Tobey, from which he graduated in 1958. That same year he won his first exhibition award, placing 1st in Architecture at the Ford Motor Company Industrial Arts Awards exhibition in Dearborn, MI. He went on to study at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (1959), the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (1959-1960), the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, CA (1961-1952), the National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY (1963), and the University of Washington, Seattle (1964-1965).

Among Fisher's teachers was Leo Kenney, one of the main painters of the early Northwest School. Kenney's focus on water-based painting was a major influence to Fisher who appreciated the fluidity of gouache, watercolor, and later, acrylic. Though Fisher began in figurative subjects, he soon dedicated himself to non-representational abstraction and the iconography-infused compositions. In the late 1960s he lived and worked in San Francisco where his focus was on large, abstracted works painted in nitrocellulose lacquer on sheets of reflective glass or on masonite. In the 1970s he changed his focus to tempera and acrylic painting and polymer collage. In his abstract works he often achieved an airbrushed quality in his themes of kaleidoscopic patterns, light refraction, and iconography. Fisher also explored realism, particularly in portraits of women.

Albert Fisher taught at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle form 1976 to 1978 and at the University of California at Berkeley from 1978 to 1979. He has exhibited extensively throughout the West Coast and beyond, and continues to live and work in Washington. His most recent group show was in 2023 at the Aurora Loop Gallery in Port Townsend, WA.