Karen Fitzgerald lives and works in NYC. She was born in 1956, and grew up on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin; and it is this early and close association with the natural world that threads through her work. Fitzgerald’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the University of Arizona – Tucson, and the United Nations in NY. Her work has received funding from the Queens Community Arts Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center commissioned her, and her work resides at Montefiore Medical Center, and NYU Langone Medical Center, as well as in the permanent collection of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Special Collections Libraries of Princeton, Berkeley, UW-Milwaukee, and William & Mary. She completed commissions at 2 Public Schools in Queens. She is a master teaching artist and works with a wide range of institutions.  She has taught at St. John’s University, Iona College, LIU–Post, and worked as education director for the Queens Symphony Orchestra. She earned an MFA from Hunter College, and an M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University.