Fiona Walther

Fiona Walther

Fiona Walther is a painter whose work unfolds at the root of rules, restraint, and the persistent desire to misbehave. Drawing on early memories where behavior was observed, indexed, and classified, her practice navigates the emotional residue. Walther moves between intuition and formality, embracing a kind of dramatic nonsense that thrives in the confusing space between rigid structure and magical reimagining. Her motifs, patterns of traditional German dress, myth-dense forests, symmetrical forms strained to their breaking point; become tools for questioning how we escape the classifications that shape us, and how inherited or regenerated guilt might be expelled or transformed. Her work also traces the friction between German and American consumerist cultures, revealing the absurdities and tensions embedded in both.

 

Currently based in Providence, RI, Walther is pursuing her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (’26). She has interned at Haines Gallery in San Francisco and Mall Galleries in London, participated twice in the Christie’s Chairman’s Program, and created a five-piece painting exhibition for a San Francisco building opening. She has exhibited in multiple RISD-organized shows.