Jo Ann Fleischhauer was born in Brooklyn, and raised in a small town outside of Buffalo, New York. She received her BA from Bates College and her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. After completing her degrees, she lived and studied in New Zealand and France. In 1990, she moved to Houston where she did graduate work in sculpture at the University of Houston.
She is a recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowship Grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, a Houston Endowment Grant, a City of Houston's City Initiative Grant as well as grants from Connemara Conservancy, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Buffalo Bayou Artpark, Tacoma Contemporary, and Project Row Houses. From 2008-2010, she was the Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering (nBME), The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Her sculpture Emptying into White was installed in the Feigin Center Lobby, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, in 2003. She was Artist-in-Residence for the City of Tacoma, Washington's, Urban Art Installation Project in 2004, and 2005 brought her back to Houston to construct A Pocketful of Stars for Project Row Houses. Parasol Project, an installation at the Historical Foley House in downtown Houston, was generously supported by Fleischhauer's 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant through Houston Arts Alliance, City of Houston's City Initiative Program through Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Houston Downtown Improvement, Inc., and City of Houston's Convention and Entertainment Facilities Department. As a result of her recent Artist-in-Residency, her installation Leonardo Dialogo was permanently installed in the Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research (CABIR), The University of Texas Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, in November 2010.
Fleischhauer has exhibited nationally and is represented in public and private collections. She lives in Houston.
