Christopher Miñán Fitzgerald studied at the Penn State School of Visual Arts (MFA 2012) and Yale University Summer School of Art (2008) with a residency at Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. The artist exhibited at numerous universities across the United States with guest presentations at the Austin Museum of Art, the University of Alberta, and Wells College in New York. In 2023, he was awarded the Texas Commission on the Arts grant and his first solo museum exhibition with the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas. Miñán Fitzgerald currently lives and works in Austin and his paintings are featured in the White Columns Artist Registry.

Biography
Born 1977 in Melbourne, Florida
Lives and works in Austin, Texas

Education
2012 MFA, Penn State School of Visual Arts, University Park, PA
2008 Yale University Summer School of Art, New Haven, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Processing, International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX
2020 Rebirth, Texas State University, Round Rock, TX
2015 Substrata, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024   Portrait2024, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Once, Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2023   Iluminar, Concordia University Texas, Austin, TX
2022 Annual International, University of Texas, Tyler, TX
2020 Small Works, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Drawing, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
2018 Exchange, Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Portals, Concordia University Texas, Austin, TX
2014 Hunting Prize Gala, Friedkin Companies Campus, Houston, TX
2013 Notification, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 Reunion, Kern Building, University Park, PA
2011 Big Ten Conference, Big Ten Headquarters, Chicago, IL
2010 ArtBall, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2009   On The Road, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2008   Steadfast, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX

Selected Publications

2024    Leejin Kim, ed. Portrait2024, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea. Exhibition catalog.
2023    Celina Michel. “IMAS Collaborates with Artist,” IMAS Musette, Fall Issue, pg. 10.
2020    Rebirth. Texas State University, Round Rock, Texas. Exhibition catalog.
            Chad Darbyshire (foreword), Douglas Gordon (interview).
2015    Evan Garza. New American Paintings, No. 120, November, pp. 34-37.
2011    Joseph Bolstad. “Filmic Stains,” Collegian Arts Showcase, October.

Grants and Awards
2023 Texas Commission on the Arts Grant
2015    Art Department Chair, CTX Board of Directors
2014    Hunting Art Prize Finalist

Public Collections
Barokas Public Relations Agency, Seattle, WA
Capitol Building Collection, Olympia, WA
CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Concordia University Texas, Austin, TX
International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX
Pritzker Collection, New York, NY