Karen Fitzgerald

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

Background

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, 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.

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. In 2005, Times critic Helen Harrison called Fitzgerald's work "atmospheric, dispensing with all but the most minimal references to tangible reality."

Selected exhibitions

• 2013 - "Friendly Gestures, Namaste", Queens College Art Center
• 2012 - "The Shift", Knox Gallery, NYC
• 2009 - "Earth, Light and Fire", Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
• 2006 - "Tondi", Wooster Art Space
• 2001 - "Orbs", Show Walls, Durst Organization Sponsor
• 1999 - "Into Light", Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
• 1997 - "Into Light", Rotunda Gallery, University of Arizona
• 1995 - "Live/Work in Queens", The Queens Museum of Art
• 1994 - "Journey," Jamaica Arts Center

Selected awards and grants

• Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence at the Haslla Art World, South Korea (2014)