Costume Test (Costumes for Brokeback Mountain, 2005)
Inkjet print mounted to Dibond, found object (iron), nail
18 x 10.75 x .5 inches
DW Fitzpatrick (born 1964, Long Island, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Fitzpatrick has presented solo exhibitions at Gordon Robichaux, New York (2025 and 2018); Beware of Dog, Long Island City, NY (2023); Artist Curated Projects (ACP), Los Angeles (2017); Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY (2015); Art in General, New York (2014); Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY (2013); Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2012); Museum 52, New York (2010); La MaMa Galleria, New York (2008); and Bellwether Gallery, New York (2007).
Their work has been included in group exhibitions at MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome; Demisch Danant, New York (Curated by Robert Gober); Higher Pictures, New York; Artist Curated Projects (ACP), Los Angeles; Morán Morán, Los Angeles; Participant Inc., New York; Know More Games, New York; Public Fiction, Los Angeles; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PN; Trial BALLOON, New York; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; M+B, Los Angeles; American Contemporary, New York; Art In General, New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Saatchi Gallery, London; Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Cohan and Leslie, New York; Brent Sikkema, New York; Baltimore Contemporary Art Museum; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Fitzpatrick’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, and The New Yorker and is featured in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (Phaidon Press). They were a faculty member in sculpture at the Yale School of Art from 2001 to 2011, and taught at The Cooper Union, ICP/Bard, and Bard College from 2015 to 2025.
Fitzpatrick has contributed work to the publications Artforum, North Drive Press, and Interview Magazine. They have been an artist-in-residence at BOFFO and FIAR in Fire Island, New York, and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and have received grants from Art Matters and the Jerome Foundation.
18 x 10.75 x .5 inches
9 x 3 x 3 inches
7 x 6 x .25 inches
28 x 4.5 x 2.25 inches
DW Fitzpatrick, August, Born in July
11.25 x 4.5 x 2.375 inches
9 x 3 x 3 inches
Origin Story