Karen Fitzgerald

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Karen Fitzgerald
NationalityAmerican
EducationMaster of Fine Arts
Masters of Education
Alma mater Hunter College
Columbia University
OccupationVisual artist
Website www.fitzgeraldart.com

Karen Fitzgerald is an American artist based in New York City [1] best known for working exclusively in the tondo form.

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Career

Fitzgerald's work has been exhibited throughout the United States including the University of Arizona, Queens Museum of Art, the Rahr-West Museum, Islip Art Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art Design, Milwaukee Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the United Nations. Her work is also in the Reinhart Collection of Germany, the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and the Brooklyn Union Gas collection along with other public and private collections [2] [3] [4] including the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and at the Princeton University Library in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2021, her work “The Four Elemental Forces” was part of an exhibit by the Long Island City Arts Connection initiative. [5] [6]

In 1995, New York Times critic Pepe Karmel stated "looks back to an earlier epoch when art was not expected to carry the burden of social commentary" about her work. [7] In 2005, Times critic Helen Harrison called Fitzgerald's work "atmospheric, dispensing with all but the most minimal references to tangible reality." [8] In 2020, she was featured in Monk magazine. [9]

Fitzgerald is a master teaching artist and provides arts-in-education consulting services for the education community. The Greenwall Foundation, Queens Community Arts Fund, Women’s Studio Center, and the New York Foundation for the Arts have all supported her with individual artist’s grants.

Background

After growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, Fitzgerald earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, an MFA from Hunter College, and a Masters of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Fitzgerald resides in Queens, New York.

Selected exhibitions

Selected awards and grants

Selected bibliography

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