BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Fitzgerald was born in 1977 in Melbourne, Florida, a short drive from Disney World. His uncle was head of the Warner Bros. fire department, and his cousins worked at Universal Studios theme park in Burbank, California, which he visited often during his later childhood in Washington State. After earning his undergraduate degree in illustration from Western Washington University, he held his first solo exhibition of paintings at D'Adamo-Woltz Gallery in Seattle, which sold out on opening night.
During the early 2000s, Fitzgerald drew independent comics while also working as a concept artist designing characters for Humongous Entertainment's educational games. Drawing inspiration from the Romantic landscape tradition, he went on to study sculpture and video at Yale School of Art, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in studio art from Penn State School of Visual Arts.
He has since exhibited his paintings in more than seventy shows throughout the United States and in Korea, Canada, and Mexico, with guest presentations at the Blanton Museum of Art, the McAllen Museum of Art, the University of Alberta, Texas State University, Seattle Pacific University, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas, Olympic College in Washington, Wells College in New York, and the Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria.
Fitzgerald is an art professor at Concordia University Texas, where he also serves as director of the Department of Art. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Lisa, their four kids, and Theo, their beloved beagle.