Karen Fitzgerald

Karen Fitzgerald was raised on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin. It is this early, close association with the natural world that threads through her work. Fitzgerald’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the University of Arizona – Tucson, and the United Nations in NY. Her work has received funding from the Queens Community Arts Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center commissioned her. The work resides in the permanent collections of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Special Collections Libraries of Princeton, Berkeley, UW-Milwaukee, and William & Mary College. She completed 3 large exterior commissions in NYC, including a 54 x 40' mural in collaboration with the Urban Assembly for Green Careers. She is a master teaching artist and works with a wide range of institutions on a variety of educational issues. She earned an MFA from Hunter College, and an M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She lives and works in Western Queens, NYC.