Prof. Barnaby Fitzgerald divides his time between teaching and painting in the United States, and painting and video work in Togo, West Africa, and Umbria in central Italy. He has shown in Italy, France, the United Kingdom and New York City. Currently he is represented by Meredith Long & Co., Houston, and Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
In 1979, Fitzgerald was a fellow of the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, where he painted and drew Provençal landscapes for a year. In 1985 he won an award from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, New York City.
“To enter Barnaby Fitzgerald’s Dallas studio is to enter a world of astonishing beauty, …” writes Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. “In Barnaby Fitzgerald, the Texas sensibility is wonderfully married to the classical European tradition back through the Renaissance to classical Rome and Greece.”
Fitzgerald’s work is in several private collections and in the Yale Art Gallery print collection, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and other museums.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Painting-Printmaking; Yale University School of Art, 1983
B.F.A. in Painting; Boston University School for the Arts, 1977
Magistero, Printmaking; Istituto d’Arte Statale, Urbino, Italy, 1973
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts; Painting and Drawing, 1974
Accademia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy; Drawing, 1973
Conservatorio Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro, Italy; Musical Composition, Maestro Mario Bertoncini, 1972
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 “Concordances” paintings, drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Museum of the Southwest, “Moments, Still Lives and Figures,” Texas NEWS (North) exhibit
2013 “Barnabaccio (1953-1980): things outside art,” Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
2012 “Interdictions and Extuitions,” paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007 “complexions of the avatars,” tempera and oil paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 “Trimalchio’s Kitchen,” paintings, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas
2004 “Barnaby Fitzgerald, Paintings,” Anne Dean Turk Art Center, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
See more exhibitions, 1978-2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 “A society grows great when old men plant trees,” Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 “An Exuberant Life: Flo McGarrell,” AVA Gallery, Lebanon, N.H.
2010 “La Sirena” tempera, in “Á Travers les Couleurs,” Fosaj Art Center, Jacmel, Haiti; curated by Flo McGarrell
2009 “The Plan is the Body,” Big Chimney Art Space, Chicopee, Mass.
2009 “Natural Colors,” Greenfield, Lomé, Togo
2008 “Meadows Art Now,” McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, Texas
2007 “Printastic Printangular,” Invitational Print Exhibition, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
2004 “The Art Show,” Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, N.Y. (Valley House Gallery)
2004 Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Chicago, Ill. (Valley House Gallery)
2004 McNay Art Fair, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2004 “Modalities of the visible,” inaugural exhibition at Brookhaven College’s new Art Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas
See more group exhibitions, 1977-2002
VISITING LECTURES AND CRITIQUES
2014 Museum of the Southwest, lecture and podcast on Surrealism, metaphor and the challenges of making art
2013 Visiting printmaking critic, Tarrant County College, Art Department, Fort Worth, Texas
2012 Juror, TVAA Painting competition, Dallas, Texas
2012 Visiting critic, New York Academy, Manhattan, N.Y.|
2011 Presentation, “Algorithms of Distance, Metaphors in Pictorial Language,” 6th International Conference of the Arts in Society, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany
2010 Presentation, “Painting in West Africa Today,” Claiming Creativity Symposium, Columbia College Chicago
2010 Workshop performance, Fosaj Art Center, Jacmel, Haiti
2007 Artist talk, “Iris donation from A.G Hill to the Meadows Museum of Art,” Meadows Museum, SMU Student Forum
2005 Presentation, “The Contour Phenomenon,” Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
See more examples of visiting lectures and critiques, 1979-2001
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 SMU faculty development grant, Museum of the Southwest exhibition support
2011 SMU faculty travel grant, Berlin, to attend 6th International Conference of the Arts in Society
2010 Artist-in-Residence, “Á Travers les Couleurs,” Fosaj Art Center, Jacmel, Haiti
2009 Travel/development grant, Fosaj Art Center, Jacmel, Haiti
2008 Sabbatical leave, Togo and Burkina Faso, Africa
See more examples of grants and residencies, 1979-2003
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Canticle)
Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas (Iris)
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (Dryad; Sunflower Fields)
Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
Boston University, Brookline, Mass.
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Conn.
Hyatt Regency, Dallas, Texas
Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Mass.
Yale Print Collection, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. (Parable)
Charles B. Goddard Center, Ardmore, Okla. (Poppies)
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas (Romance of the Prodigal Son)
Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas (Waiting for Sarah)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Barnaby Fitzgerald’s work is held in numerous private collections across the U.S., Italy, London and Paris.
BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTIONS
FredericK Turner, “An Impossible Union: Observations on the Art of Barnaby Fitzgerald” Exhibition Catalogue “Concordances” 2017
Barnaby Fitzgerald, “I Colori Della Presenza Umana” L’Arte Cultura dei Popoli Conference, Sala dei Notari, Perugia, Italy, 2017
Heather Horton, “Past Reveals Present in Exhibit: Sculptural Graffiti,” The Collegian, Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 4, 2013
Frederick Turner, “The Music of Tempera: an Appreciation of the Art of Barnaby Fitzgerald,” Valley House Gallery, August 2012
Michael Huey, “Comfort in Constraint,” World of Interiors Magazine, July 2012
Barnaby Fitzgerald, “The Algorithms of Distance,” International Journal of the Arts in Society, December 2011
Frederick Turner, “The Eyes of Texas,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2010
Judith Segura, “Barnaby Fitzgerald, A Life in Art,” Langdon Review, Fall 2007
Writers Garrett, journal cover, “TEX!,” Spring 2006
Elaine Rogers, “Perfect Pitch,” Dallas/Fort Worth House & Home, February 2005
Rainer Schulte, editor, Translation Review, The University of Texas at Dallas, selection of drawings, 2005
Michael Ennis, “The Barrett Collection,” Meadows Museum exhibition catalogue, November 2004
Steve Carter, “Enigmatically Yours: Explore the Pre-Postmodern Beauty of…” Dallas Home Design, February 2004
Susan White, “Portrait of an artist,” SMU Research magazine, Vol. 2, July 2004
Valley House Gallery 50th Anniversary catalogue, February 2004
See numerous additional articles, 1973-2003
COMMISSIONS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES; SELECTED NOMINATIONS
2014 MacMillan Audiobooks, cover of “Homeric Poems,” trans. R. Fitzgerald.
2011 Nominated: Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2010 Presentation, “The Stance of Independence,” and video documentary on West African contemporary painting, at Claiming Creativity Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
2009 Written, directed, filmed 50-minute documentary video Les Couleurs de la Forêt, on Prosper Nyanú, Kouma Konda, Togo; video nominated for Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2008 Written, directed, filmed video A Retable on Panel: 52minutes, Professor Bonnie Wheeler, English Department, Cultural Formation Class Spring 2008, former Meadows Museum, SMU
2005 Societé Arabella, Paris, France. Painting, “Terpsichore”
2004 Farrar Straus and Giroux, book cover for new edition of Homer, The Odyssey and Homer, The Iliad.
See additional commissions, activities and nominations, 1974-97
TEACHING
SMU Meadows
1999-Present, Professor of Art
1990-99, Associate Professor of Art
1984-89, Assistant Professor of Art
Teaching, Other
1989-Present, Adjunct Graduate Faculty, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Biomedical Communications
1989, Visiting Professor of Painting and Drawing, The University of Georgia at Athens, Cortona, Italy
1982-84, Art Instructor; Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Conn.
1983-84, Assistant Lecturer in Art Appreciation; Quinnipiac College, New Haven, Conn.
1982-83, Teaching Assistant to Bernard Chaet, drawing courses for Yale studio art majors, Yale University, School for the Arts
1977, Instructor of Drawing, AIFS Program; Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
Links
Barnaby Fitzgerald website
Barnaby Fitzgerald Vimeo channel
