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Ali Fitzgerald

Exhibition

Mar 13 - Apr 05, 2020
Ali Fitzgerald
Strong Animal

Biography

Ali Fitzgerald is an artist and writer living in Berlin. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker as well as the New York Times. Her work has also been published in the Guardian, New York Magazine: The Cut, Modern Painters Magazine, McSweeney’s and elsewhere.

Her art has been exhibited internationally, including the Haus am Luetzowplatz in Berlin, the Center for Book Arts in New York and the Austin Museum of Art. 

In 2017 she was awarded the Cornish CCS fellowship at the Center for Cartoon Studies and in 2018 the Georgia Fee Residency with Artslant in Paris. In the Spring of 2018 she collaborated with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on a series of drawings about Magritte. In 2020 she will be a fellow at the Maison des Artistes in Angoulême, France. 

Her graphic nonfiction book, "Drawn to Berlin," about teaching comics in refugee shelters and Berlin's evolving relationship to Bohemia and immigration was named one of the top ten comics of 2018 by New York Magazine:Vulture and received the Independent Publisher's Award for Best Drawn Book of 2018.