The Toronto Star called her the "unassuming nuclear reactor of the Toronto arts scene", adding that she is "doing seemingly impossible work that, at the same time, is both vital and otherwise neglected: building a memory bank of artistic expression in a city plagued with willful amnesia.
[2] Fischer changed curatorial positions every two or three years in the early part of her career.
At the same time as her curatorial work, Fischer taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto (1992–1998), at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1995–1999), and at the University of Toronto at Mississauga (2000–2005), then in the Department of Art, University of Toronto (2008–) where she developed the Master of Visual Studies Program in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and was appointed associate professor, teaching stream in 2015.
[2][3] Fischer has curated or co-curated roughly 100 exhibitions on contemporary art which have travelled nationally or internationally,[2][3] such as the following: Fischer has written essays in books on the topic of contemporary curatorial practice, such as, 'Negotiations: Curatorial Practice', (in "Naming A Practice"), 'Top Ten' (in "Raising Frankenstein"), and most recently, in 'The Next 25 years: Propositions for the Future of Curatorial Studies' (in "Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education"); as well as edited and written introductions for numerous independent and exhibition-related publications such as "foodculture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art" (YYZ Books: 1999), "Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto" (Art Museum and Blackdog Press: 2020) with Luis Jacob; "Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice" (Art Museum and Blackdog Press: 2020) (translations to French and Cree); and "General Idea Editions 1967–1995", Catalog Raisonne.
Her essays in books include "On Language in Conceptual Art', in "Conceptual Lines", proceedings from the international conference organized by the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA, as well as many articles and reviews.