DW Fitzpatrick

DW Fitzpatrick

DW Fitzpatrick (born 1964, Long Island, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Fitzpatrick has presented solo exhibitions at Beware of Dog, Long Island City, NY (2023); Gordon Robichaux, New York (2018); 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.

Works

British Airways

Found cutlery and plastiline

9 x 3 x 3 inches

2014

Clock Unwound

Unique Polaroid photograph (from a series of 3)

5.75 x 4.75 inches

2005

Acorn falls from tree

Mixed media collage on paper

11 x 14 inches

2014

Slaphappy

Found safety glass, silicone, wood, drywall, clamp light and 100-watt incandescent bulb

20 x 19 x 0.25 inches

2018

That Might Be a Wisecrack, But I Doubt It, (Maquette)

Paper maché, sand and found steel needle

8 x 4 x 3 inches

2015

Unfaithfully Yours

Fiber glass, cast metal key and cast metal lamp

40 x 54 x 13 inches

2012

Cows, Bees and Blacksmiths

Beeswax and found iron

9 x 4 x 3 inches

2017

It’s Easier for a Rope—Or Was It a Camel?

Archival pigment print mounted on Sintra

53 x 40 inches

2018

Frottage

Mixed media collage on paper

12 x 12 inches

2014

Health and Wealth in 5 Parts

Found objects, clamp lights, 100-watt incandescent bulbs

64 x 96 x 16 inches

2018

Exhibitions

DW Fitzpatrick

Daphne

Sept. 7–Oct. 26, 2025

Origin Story

Peter Acheson, Florence Derive, John Finneran, DW Fitzpatrick, Pippa Garner, Ava Woo Kaufman, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Miguel "Mikie" Perez, Richard Porter

July 7–Aug. 11, 2023

A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part II) —

Wilder Alison, Leilah Babirye, Matt Connors, Jenni Crain, Stephanie Crawford, Florence Derive, DW Fitzpatrick, Gillian Garcia, Daniel Marcellus Givens, Janice Guy, Otis Houston Jr., Miles Huston, KIOSK, Marco ter Haar Romeny, Clifford Prince King, Elisabeth Kley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Siobhan Liddell, Rosemary Mayer, McDermott & McGough, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Matt Paweski, Signe Olson, Sanou Oumar, Kerry Schuss, Dean Spunt, Tabboo!, Ken Tisa, Boris Torres, Frederick Weston

Mar. 1–Apr. 19, 2020

DW Fitzpatrick

3 Dollar Bill

Apr. 29–June 17, 2018

Projects

Paris Internationale: Florence Derive, DW Fitzpatrick, McDermott & McGough, Sanou Oumar, Tabboo!, Frederick Weston

Oct. 16–Oct. 19, 2019

Summer Viewing Room

July 15–Aug. 12, 2019

Trial BALLOON

June 3, 2018

NADA Miami: Leilah Babirye, DW Fitzpatrick

Dec. 7–Dec. 10, 2017

Let Go Or Be Dragged

Mar. 2–Mar. 5, 2017

Publications

DW Fitzpatrick, XXVI 'Alles Gutte’

2016

Roman Nvmerals, Vol. XXVI

Press

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