TOMMY FITZPATRICK

BORN:

1969

Dallas, TX

EDUCATION:

1993

M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1991

B.A., Fine Arts, The University of Texas, Austin, TX

1989

Summer Painting Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

2005

Curtain Wall, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Working Spaces, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2004-05

Object Lessons, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX; traveling to: Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX;
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

2003

Looking Up, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2001

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Recent Work, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

1999

Recent Work, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Recent Work, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX

1998

In the Back Gallery: Paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

1994

The Buttonwood Tree, Middletown, CT

1993

M.F.A. Thesis Show, Art & Architecture Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002

Western Artists: Selections from New American Paintings, Open Studios Press Galleries, Boston, MA

2001

New American Talent, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX

2000

Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

 

What’s So Funny About Color?, Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA

 

Urban Realities, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

1999

Size Matters, GAle GAtes et al., Brooklyn, NY

 

Then and Now, Montgomery Community College, Conroe, TX

 

Summer Mixer, Wells Fargo Plaza Gallery, Houston, TX

1998

Blurred Boundaries, A FotoFest Collaboration, Winter Street Art Center, Houston, TX

 

Faculty Show, The Art Gallery, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX

 

Lemonade, Wells Fargo Plaza Lobby Gallery

 

Subversive Millennium, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

 

Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX

1997

Houston Community College, Houston, TX

 

$99.95, Lesikar Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Faculty Show, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX

 

The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

 

Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Art Space, Houston, TX

 

2 Kings Live, Lesikar Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Really Red, West End Gallery, Houston, TX

 

A Wink and a Nod, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Faculty Show, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

1996

Faculty Show, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX

1995

Salon ‘95, Art Initiatives, New York, NY, finalist

1994

Connotations of Red, Renegade Art Space, New York, NY

 

Dore Ashton Selects, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY

1991-1992

Graduate Student Annual Exhibitions, Art & Architecture Gallery, Yale University School of Art,
New Haven, CT

1990-1991

Undergraduate Student Annual Exhibitions, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX

 AWARDS:

1993

Winsor Newton Oil Bar Limited Prize, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Given in recognition of outstanding work in painting and printmaking

1991

Merit Award, The University of Texas at Austin, for excellence in painting

 COLLECTIONS:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Dannatt, Adrian.  “New York Diary”, The Art Newspaper, November 2003.

Eskreis, Rebecca.  “Life As A House: Artists Nod to Architecture”, Columbia Daily Spectator,
September 17, 2003.

Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Tommy Fitzpatrick”, HoustonPress, December 12, 2002.

Lauster, Darryl. “Urban Realities: Galveston Arts Center”, Artlies, Winter 2000-2001, p. 69

Anspon, Catherine. “This Month’s Art Buzz”, Paper City, October 2000, p. 6

Dewan, Shaila. “Object Lesson”, Houston Press, April – May 5, 1999, p. 55

Grover, Andrea. Gallery section review, MSN Sidewalk Houston, May, 1999

Flake, Nancy. “Professor’s one-man show relates art to life”, The Villager, February 24, 1999, p. 3B

Flake, Nancy. “College professor behind one-man art show”, The Courier, February 17, 1999, pg. 1C

Barker, Jackie. “Fitzpatrick art show at Montgomery College”, Houston Chronicle, This Week section, p. 5

Anspon, Catherine. “Glassell Graduate “Revolutionizes” Houston’s Summer Art Scene”, Public News,
June 25, 1997, p. 13

“Whale of a Time”, Houston Chronicle, Downtown/Neartown section, June 25, 1997, p.1