Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Jonathan Silver: Infidel in the Studio. 2017.

2016 Jonathan Silver: Infidel in the Studio. Private Screenings at Anthology Film Archives. October 17 and 21, 2016 and December 15, 2016.

2016 Coleen Fitzgibbon Talk at Dorian Grey Gallery April 6, 2016

2015 Filmmakers’ Cooperative Presents: IMAGES.MOV. Works by C. Fitzgibbon. March 20-April 10, 2015. Curated by Josh Guilford. Films: Trip To Carolee, Dictionary, FM/TRCS, Portraits, Internal Systems, Document, Beach. Filmmakers Coop, NY, NY.

2014   2014 MoRUS Film Fest. Curated by Jackson Smith. August 14, 2014. Le Petit Versailles Garden, New York NY. Screening & artist talk. Films: Restoring Appearances to Order, Virgin Beauty

2014   Fabrications: Constructing Female Identity. Curated by Yulia Tikhonova. January 15, 2014. Dixon Place, New York NY. Screening & artist talk. Films: Daily News, Land of Nod

2013    Coleen Fitzgibbon & Andrea Callard, Colab TV. Screening & lecture. In conjunction with XFR STN. Curated by Johanna Burton and Jen Song. Archivist: Tara Hart. September 5, 2013. New Museum, New York, NY. Work featured: Potato Wolf, All Color News, Red Curtain (excerpts)

2012    Five Women Series: Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Hans Hurch. October 26-27, 2012. VIENNALE, Vienna, Austria. Films: Trip to Carolee, Daily News, Rich and Poor, Document, LES, X-Magazine Benefit, FM/TRCS, Der Spiegel

2012    Oculto #2. Curated by Alexandre Estrela. With Alan Moore as guest lecturer. February 10, 2012. Oporto, Portugal. Film: LES

2011    Coleen Fitzgibbon: Diary Films. Curated by Saul Levine. November 16, 2011. MassArt Film Society, Boston, MA. Films: Trip to Carolee, LES, FM/TRCS, Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min., Make a Movie, X Magazine Benefit

2011    Restoring Appearances to Order: Coleen Fitzgibbon (Diary Films and Micro Films). October 25-26, 2011. Cinema Project, Portland, OR. Films: Gym, L.E.S., X Magazine Benefit, Trip to Carolee, Make a Movie, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Min., Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Daily News, Der Spiegel, I.S. Migration, Document, Dictionary, Time

2011    Coleen Fitzgibbon: Public Records. Curated by Sandra Gibson and Howard Guttenplan. March 12, 2011. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY. Films: Daily News, Der Spiegel, Internal System Fourth Pass, Document (Public Records), Dictionary, Time

2010    Restoring Appearances to Order: Rare Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Patrick Friel. October 15, 2010. White Light Cinema, Chicago, IL. Films: Gym, Time, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Min., L.E.S., Trip to Carolee’s, Margie’s House

2010    Internal Systems: Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Amy Beste. October 14, 2010. Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL. Films: Internal System, Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min.

2010    Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Minsu Yang. September 17, 2010. Center of Visual Art Boda, Seoul, Korea. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min., Internal Systems

2010    Time and Essence: The Preserved Films of Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Andrea Picard. March 11, 2010. Images Festival, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Time, Internal Systems

2009    Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon. March 6-7, 2009. Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min., Internal Systems

2008    Internal Systems: Coleen Fitzgibbon. November 23, 2008. LA FilmForum, Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles, CA. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min.

2008    Jewels & Gems Series: Early Films by Colen Fitzgibbon. June 23, 2008. Collective: Unconscious, New York, NY. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Document, LES

2008    Internal Systems: Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by Gibson & Recoder. June 17, 2008. Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Restoring appearances to Order in 12 Minutes, Document

2008    Films by C. Fitzgibbon. Curated by Gibson & Recoder. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

2007    Your Basic Films. Curated by Gibson & Recoder. November 18, 2007. Independent Film Show, E-M Arts/ Foundation Morra, Naples, Italy. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Minutes

2007    Your Basic Film. Curated by Gibson & Recoder. Discussion moderated by Scott MacDonald. October 13, 2007. Balagan Film Series & Mass Art Film Society, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Minutes

2007    Your Basic Film. Royal Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium. Films: “Found Film Flashes,” “FM/TRCS,” “Internal Systems,” “Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Minutes”

1978    Films by Colen Fitzgibbon. Invitation by Paul Sharits & Gerald McGrady. SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Minutes, Time

1978    C. Fitzgibbon: Your Basic Film. Invitation by Jonas Mekas. Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Films: Public Records (Document), Daily News, Time, L.E.S.

1977    Alternative Employment for Women: Sex Industry. Multimedia performance with Anya Philips. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.

1977    Total Score. Video installation/performance. April, 1977. 262 Mott St., New York, NY.

1977    A Causal Experimentations. Video installation/performance.  March, 1977. 262 Mott St., New York, NY.

1976    C. Fitzgibbon Films. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Public Records (Document), Trip to Carolee

1976    Colen Fitzgibbon Films. Spring, 1976. Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Public Records (Document), Trip to Carolee

1976    Colen Fitzgibbon Films. Pittsburgh Filmmaker’s Co-op, Pittsburgh, PA. Spring, 1976. Films: Found Film Flashes, FM/TRCS, Internal Systems, Public Records (Document), Trip to Carolee

1976    Applied Auto-Conditioning: Films by Colen Fitzgibbon. February, 1976. Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY. Work featured: performance of Natural Disasters

1976    Public Records. National Microfilm Association, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY. Films: Public Records (Document), Dictionary, Time Magazine, Daily News

1976    Public Records. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY. Films: Public Records (Document), Dictionary, Time Magazine, Daily News

1975    Reform Xtension: Film by C. Fitzgibbon. With surrogate lecturer James McClain on prison reform. October 31, 1975. SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY.

1975    C. Fitzgibbon: Your Basic Film. Invitation by Jonas Mekas. April 30, 1975. Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. Films: Exposed Film, FM/TRCS, Internal System

1975    Public Records. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY.

1975    Manpower (performance). Curated by Ilana Heiss. Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY.

1975    C. Fitzgibbon Films. January, 1975. Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Films: FM/TRCS, Internal System

1975    Name Gallery, Chicago, IL.


Group Exhibitions

2018 Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat. May. 13 – Jul. 29, 2018. An Exhibition and Special Events Curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, Mary-Ann Monforton and Howl! Happening.

2017 Greenpoint Film Festival Curated by Rosa Valado.
May 4, 2017. Greenpoint 2017. 30 min. Panel.
May 7, 2017. Bushwick Inlet Park. 5 min. Panel.
May 7, 2017. Jonathan Silver: Infodel in the Studio. 42 min. Panel.

2016 Paradise: Underground Culture in NYC 1978-84 Curated by Steven Harvey. Wednesday, October 12th, from 7-9pm. Steven Harvey Fine Art ProjectsGroup show.

2016 Filmmakers’ Coop Art Auction Preview2016. Filmmakers’ Coop. Group show.

2016 Coleen Fitzgibbon – L.E.S. screened at Howl Happening
2016. Printed Matter. Group show.

2016 Oculus and Land of Nod (paintings and films)April-July 2016. Dorian Grey Gallery, NYCGroup show.

2016 “Greenpoint 2016” at Greenpoint Film Festival
March 17-20, 2016. Printed Matter. Group show.

2016 Colab Talk at Printed Matter2016. Printed Matter. Group show.

2015 THE VALUE OF FOOD: SUSTAINING A GREEN PLANT October 6, 2015-April 3, 2016. The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine Group show.

2015 Darger’s Room 1973. October, 2015. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

2015 Film Makers’ Cooperative Presents: New Year, New Works Curated by Josh Guilford. January 30th – January 31st, 2015. The Film Makers’ Cooperative. Group show.

2014  Art & Ephemera from 98 Bowery, 1969-89. Curated by Marc H. Miller. December 19th – December 28th, 2014. The Lodge Gallery. Group show.

2014   URBAN THEATER: NEW YORK ART IN THE 1980s. Curated by Michael Auping. September 21, 2014-January 4, 2015. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. Work featured: photographs from Colab’s 5 Bleecker Store shows: Income and Wealth, Manifesto Show, Just Another Asshole, Colab Real Estate Show, Times Square Show

2014   In and Around Collaborative Projects, Inc: Text / Landscape / Object, Organized by Laura Kenner and Rachel Valinsky. May 14, 2014. Spectacle, 124 S. 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY. Films: Dictionary, Time (Cover to Cover), Found Film Flashes, Trip to Carolee

2014   The Real Estate Show, What Next: 2014, April 19-May 18, 2014. Cuchifritos Gallery at Essex Street Market, New York, NY.

2014    No City An Island, April 10-May 11, 2014. The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY.

2014    RESx, April 9-May 8, 2014. ABC No Rio, New York, NY.

2014    The Real Estate Show, Was Then: 1980, April 4-27, 2014. James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY.

2014    Fabrications: Constructing Female Identity / Laura Elkins • Coleen Fitzgibbon • Laura Marsh. Curated by Yulia Tikhonova. January 7-31, 2014. Dixon Place, New York NY. Work featured: Daily News prints.

2013    The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Presents: Colab TV Video Excerpts. Selections by Andrea Callard & Coleen Fitzgibbon. Organized by MM Serra. November 15, 2013. Soho House, New York NY. Work featured: Colab TV Excerpts from Potato Wolf, M/W/F Club, XFR STN at the New Museum

2013    Short Films. Curated by Hans Hurch. October 29-30, 2013. VIENNALE, Vienna, Austria. Film: Land of Nod

2013    Emissions: Images from the Mixing Layer. Curated by Ruth Hardinger & Rebecca Smith. October 22-November 8, 2013. Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.

2013    Archives Week: “XFR STN” at the New Museum. October 11, 2013. New Museum, New York, NY. Panel participant. With Andrea Callard & Tara Hart (New Museum archivist).

2013    The Pinch and the Ouch. Curated by Marianna Ellenberg & Ariella Von. August 15, 2013. Louis B. James Gallery, New York, NY. Film: FM/TRCS

2013    Home in Loisaida. Curated by Katie Bradshaw & Jackson Smith.  August 5, 2013. MoRUS Film Fest at La Plaza Cultural, New York, NY. Film: L.E.S.

2013    Moving Image Artists’ Distribution Then & Now. July 18, 2013. New Museum, New York, NY. Panel participant. Ersatz assembly with opening remarks by Alan W. Moore, Andrea Callard, Michael Carter, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Nick Zedd and members from from the XFR STN team.

2013    XFR STN (Transfer Station). Curated by Johanna Burton and Jen Song. Archivist: Tara Hart. July 17-September 8, 2013. New Museum, New York, NY. Work featured: Excerpts from Potato Wolf & Colab TV

2013    Party Picks: Photographs by Jimmy DeSana. June 21-August 16, 2013. Salon94 Bowery, New York, NY. Film: X-Magazine Benefit

2013    I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours. Curated by Steve Englander. June 20-27, 2013. ABC No Rio, New York, NY. Film: Land of Nod (excerpt)

2013    Time as Material. Curated by Madison Brookshire. May 9, 2013. LA Film Forum at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. Film: Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Min.

2013    New From Old: Practices of Appropriation featuring Bradley Eros, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Martha Colburn. February 20, 2013. Millennium Film Workshop in conjunction with New School, New York, NY. Film: Daily News

2012    Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989. Curated by Ethan Swan. September 19-December 30, 2012. Bowery Artist Tribute, New Museum, New York, NY.

2012    Alternatives in Retrospect: Artist-run Spaces in the 1970s and 1980s. Panel. October 5, 2012. New Museum, New York, NY. With Stefan Eins, Becky Howland, Joe Lewis & Walter Robinson.

2012    Times Square Show Revisited. Curated by Shawna Cooper & Karli Wurzelbacher. September 14-December 8, 2012. Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY.

2011    Colab Artist Collective Show. Curated by Max Schumann. October 15-30, 2011. Printed Matter, New York, NY.

2011    Chashama Film Festival, New York, NY. November 13, 2011. Film: L.E.S.

2011    The Lower East Side on the Screen – Evolving Urban Identity; L.E.S and other Short Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Curated by MM Serra. October 3, 2011. Film-Makers’ Cooperative & Angel Orensanz Foundation, Inc., New York, NY. Films: L.E.S., Ludlow 1980, LM Ludlow, Ludlow 2011

2011    BERLINALE. Curated by Christian Holler. June 4, 2011. The HAU, Berlin, Germany. Film: X-Magazine Benefit

2011    The Urban Landscape in Cinematic Transformation. Curated by MM Serra. May 7, 2011. Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY. Film: L.E.S.

2011    Art, Access & Decay: New York 1975-1985. Curated by Peter Frank & Lisa Kahane. April 2-30, 2011. Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA.

2011    Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Chicago, IL. April 15, 2011. Film: X-Magazine Benefit

2011    No Wave Cinema: New York Underground 1976-1982. Curated by Matt Lloyd. Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland. February 19, 2011. Film: L.E.S.

2011    Argument of the Eye. Curated by Coleen Fitzgibbon. Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY. January 8, 2011. With Alan W. Moore, Andrea Callard, Liza Béar, Katy Martin, Miriam Parker, Katie Torn, Sandra Gibson & Susan Cox. Films: Trip to Carolee’s, X-Magazine Benefit

2010    No Wave, New York 1976-84. Curated by Christian Holler. June 8, 2010. Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria. Film: L.E.S.

2010    No Wave, New York 1976-84. Curated by Christian Holler. April 30, 2010. 56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany. Films: LES, X-Magazine Benefit

2010    Crossroads: Time Being. Curated by Vanessa O’Neill. April 18, 2010. San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA. Film: FM/TRCS

2010    X&Y: Films by Winters/Fitzgibbon. Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY.

2009    X&Y: Take the Money and Run/A Drawing For the Future. DeAppel in conjunction with Chrystie’s Auction House, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2009    Informe, Abstraction, Ecstasy. 16 Beaver Group, New York, NY.

2009    Wavelengths: Flash Point Camera. Curated by Andrea Picard. September 14, 2009. Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada. Film: FM/TRCS

2009    Looking At Music Side 2. Curated by Barbara London. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Film: Time

2009    VOID for FILM: imageless cinema. Curated by Bradley Eros. April 17, 2009. Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York, NY.

2008    Materialist Cinema: Alternative Visions Series. Curated by Kathy Geritz. October 7, 2008. Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. Films: FM/TRCS, Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 Min.

2008    Curated by Jeanette Ingberman. Fall, 2008. EXIT ART, New York, NY. Work featured: Black Hole (drawing)

2008    The Ghosts of Knokke-le-Zout. Curated by Xavier Garcia Bardon. January 27, 2008. International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Film: FM/TRCS

2006    Heartstrings: Coleen Fitzgibbon & Paul Sharits. Curated by Sandra Gibson. November 5, 2006. Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland. Film: Document

2006    The Downtown Show. Curated by Carlo McCormick. January 10-April 1, 2006. Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University, New York, NY. Film: Document

1990    Money. With Cara Perlman. March 22-April 19, 1990. Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY. Film/installation: Money

1981    Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, NY. Work featured: drawings on lead paper and enamel paint

1980    The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. Artists Space, New York, NY.

1980    Times Square Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). June 1-30, 1980. New York, NY. Work featured: paintings, drawings, Money wallpaper, video installation, TV ads (WPIX)

1979    The Real Estate Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). December 31, 1979. ConEd Delancey Street, New York, NY. Work featured: drawings, video

1979    Anatomical Dynamics. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. Work featured: Colicci ad video

1979    A Moment of Truth. The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. March, 1979. 112 Workshop, 325 Spring St., New York, NY. Work featured: Offices of FFHNP&W discussion of public policy and White Columns (re-naming of 112 Workshop)

1979    The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. January-February, 1979. David Amico, Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Work featured: Offices of FFHNP&W esthetic consultations for LA Public Library, Global Marine Development, Inc., Bob Zimmerman, Foundation for Art Resources, California Institute of the Arts, UC-Irvine, KPFK radio call-in show, drawings and Bonaventure Hotel video

1978    Practical Esthetic Services. The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. December, 1978. 305 Broadway, New York, NY. Work featured: Offices of FFHNP&W consultation handbook and card

1978    Manifesto Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). Organized by Colen Fitzgibbon and Jenny Holzer. 5 Bleecker Street, New York, NY. Work featured: photographs

1978    Dog Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). Organized by Robin Winters. March 24-May 24, 1978. 591 Broadway, New York, NY. Work featured: drawings

1978    Income and Wealth Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). Organized by Colen Fitzgibbon and Robin Winters. February 3-March 1, 1978. 5 Bleecker Street, New York, NY. Work featured: photographs, drawings, video

1978    Doctors & Dentists Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). Organized by Colen Fitzgibbon and Robin Winters. February 3-March 1, 1978. 591 Broadway, New York, NY. Work featured: photographs, drawings, video

1977    INVITATIONAL: Film Evenings. December 8, 1977. John Weber Gallery, 420 West Broadway, New York, NY. Films of Diego Cortez, Colen Fitzgibbon, Betsy Sussler.

1977    MOVED. December 7-9, 1977. 147 Spring Street, New York, NY. Films of Bill Brand, Diego Cortez, Colen Fitzgibbon, Paula Longedyke, Katy Martin, Jackie Ochs, Betsy Sussler, Robin Winters.

1977    Batman Show. Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). Organized by Diego Cortez and Robin Winters. November, 1977. 591 Broadway, New York, NY. Work featured: drawings

1977    X&Y Offer Hotspots. With Robin Winters. Invited by Leendert Van Legenstein. November 14-20, 1977. Corps de Garde, Gronigen, Holland. Work featured: Martinikerk installation with film, video and magic

1977    CAYC Video International Encounter. Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela.

1977    Women / Filmmakers Invitational Show. Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY.

1977    “Ending Film.” Curated by C. Maiwald. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

1977    Instructional Films. Municipal Building Film Show, New York, NY.

1977    Super-8 Film Show. Artists Space, New York, NY.

1976    SoHo-Downtown in Berlin. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.

1975    Art & Transition. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

1975    EXPRMNTL 5 Film & Video Festival. December 25, 1974-January 2, 1975. Prix de Albert Frere, Knokke-Heist, Belgium. Films: FM/TRCS, Internal System

1975    Ideas at the Idea Warehouse, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Queens, NY.

1975    Group Film Show. Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, British Columbia.

1975    Marie Menken and C. Fitzgibbon. Independent Film Oasis, Los Angeles, CA.

1974    Group Film Show, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY.

1973    Experimental Films. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

1973    Shorts. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1973    London Experimental Film Festival. Curated by Simon Field. September, 1973. London, England. Films: FFF, Oasis