Albert Fisher, painter and draftsman, was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1940 and was raised in the Pacific Northwest. Between 1948 and 1958, he studied at the Children's Free Creative Art School in Seattle, Washington, founded by artist Mark Tobey. In 1958, Fisher won his first exhibition award, placing 1st in Architecture at the Ford Motor Company's Industrial Arts Awards exhibition in Dearborn, Michigan. For his freshman year of college in 1959, Fisher attended the University of Puget Sound inTacoma, Washington. For his sophmore year, he studied at the University of Wyoming, Laramie (1959-1960), and for his junior year he trained at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco, California (1961-1962). His studies culiminated with his senior year at  the National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY (1963), and post graduate work at 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 on 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 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 from 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, Washington.