Christopher Fitzgerald (artist)
Christopher Fitzgerald is an American painter based in Austin, Texas. Born in 1977, he graduated from Western Washington University in 1999 having studied under Ed Bereal. 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" and one of her "favorite artists by body of work in 2005". Shortlisted for Austin Museum of Art's 22-To-Watch 2005 exhibition and the Arthouse Texas Prize in 2006, he 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. In 2015, his paintings were featured in the New American Paintings publication. Studying under Brian Alfred and Robert Yarber, Fitzgerald received his MFA from Penn State University. He currently holds an appointment as assistant professor of art at Concordia University Texas.
