- Christopher Fitzgerald (artist)
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Christopher Fitzgerald Born April 8, 1977 Nationality 
United StatesField Contemporary art Training Yale, WWU, PSU Christopher Fitzgerald is an American transmedia artist working primarily in painting, digital video and web-based systems. Born in 1977, he graduated from Western Washington University in 1999. After his college education, Fitzgerald spent the summer in Italy and France studying art and returned to Seattle where he first began exhibiting his paintings. His first solo show sold out in the fall of 1999 during the WTO protests. Austin Chronicle visual arts writer Rachel Koper listed him as one of her “favorite individual artists of 2004” [1] and one of her “favorite artists by body of work in 2005.”[2] Shortlisted for Austin Museum of Art's 22-To-Watch 2005 exhibition and the Arthouse Texas Prize in 2006, Fitzgerald then studied at the Yale University School of Art in the summer of 2008. Leading up to his studies at Yale, the artist created the Public Paintings Project by distributing small paintings throughout the world for people to find in public places.[3][4] In his ongoing series of projects Studies of Guaranteed Autonomy, Fitzgerald locates the relational in situations of critical negotiation, rather than in the open-ended condition of individual works within gallery and museum spaces.
References
- ^ Top 7 Individual Artists of 2004, Austin Chronicle, 7 Jan 2005. Accessed 8 October 2006.
- ^ Artists by Body of Work in 2005, Austin Chronicle, 6 Jan 2006. Accessed 8 October 2006.
- ^ Outside the System, Austin Chronicle, 3 April 2009. Accessed 30 December 2009.
- ^ Finding Art: Platform for an Artist, Beneath The Cover, 7 Oct 2008. Accessed 30 December 2009.
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Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Contemporary painters
- American painters
- American artists
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