Susan Fitzsimmons

Susan Fitzsimmons is in the show Just Above Midtown, Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2022-2023. The exhibit was recently listed by Holland Carter and Roberta Smith as NY Times 2022 Ten Best of Art.

In 1975 she moved to New York where she was part of a group of artists known as Contexturalists at JAM.
In 1982, she moved out of the lower East Side (Henry Street Settlement House where she was Artist- in- Residence) to upstate NY (Round Lake). As a single mother she worked full time at Empire State College, Saratoga Springs. In 1999 she moved back home to St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis, Fitzsimmons did a series of performances at University of Missouri/St. Louis, Art COOP, Grandel Theatre, Lemp Art Center. In 2005 she moved to Hattiesburg MS to be Chair of the Art Department at University of Southern Mississippi. Susan moved (2010) from Mississippi to Mc Allen, Texas to be Professor/Chair of Art at the University of Texas Pan American. She was selected as Director at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2013). At University of Texas RGV, she received the Marialice Shary Shivers Endowed Chair of Art for the UT system.(2013-2016). She moved to Mobile, Alabama (2017). Susan Fitzsimmons is currently Pr...

M.F.A. Southern Illinois 1973;
B.A. Webster University, St. Louis, MO. 1970

Additional course work Chicago Art Institute with Nancy Spero and Ree Morton.

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Fitzsimmons had several exhibitions at Just Above Midtown Gallery, a Gallery renowned for its stable of minority and women artists during the 1970’s-1980's. Fitzsimmons’ work was recognized for its early innovation in reviews by Barbara Cavaliere, and in catalogs by Richard Stankiewicz, Linda G. Bryant and April Kingsley. She is a Caucasian woman (born 1949) who was one of the early artists in JAM. She was included in the book Contextures (1978) by Linda Goode Bryant and Marcy S. Phillips. Fitzsimmons’ solo exhibitions at JAM include Transparent Relationships (1977), Moving from the Transparent to the Invisible (1979) and group exhibitions: Contextures (1978), The Process as Art: In Situ (1978), and Outlaw Aesthetics (1980). Despite not being represented by a Gallery since JAM and while remaining out of the mainstream, she has had 16 solo shows, more than 200 international and national group shows Art in America recognized Susan Fitzsimmons in the magazine (March –April 2020) as one of the original stable of artists at Just Above Midtown gallery that helped to establish a new movement in Art in the late 1970’s. “Linda Goode Bryant named Nengudi, David Hammons, Susan Fitzsimmons, Gini Hamilton, and others as new members of the ...