Coleen Fitzgibbon


Coleen Fitzgibbon is an American experimental film artist associated with Collaborative Projects, Inc.. She worked under the pseudonym Colen Fitzgibbon between the years 1973-1980. Fitzgibbon currently resides on Ludlow Street in New York City and in Montana.

Study and work history

Fitzgibbon was a student of 1960s Structuralist cinema at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program where she studied with Owen Land, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann and Vito Acconci.
Fitzgibbon has worked on film and sound projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. She formed the collaborative X&Y with Robin Winters in 1976 and helped form a conceptual art project called The Offices of Peter Fend, Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and Robin Winters in 1979, and co-founded the New York-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. in 1977 through 1981, along with forty plus artists.
Fitzgibbon and Alan W. Moore created an 11:41-minute film in 1978 of a No Wave concert to benefit Colab called X Magazine Benefit, documenting performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC in the late 1970s. Shot in black and white Super 8 and edited on video, the film captures the gritty look and sound of the music scene during that era. In 2013 it was exhibited in 2009 at Salon 94, an art gallery in New York City.
Fitzgibbon has also screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including New Museum, VIENNALE, Hunter College, The Toronto International Film Festival; Museum of Modern Art, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Light Industry, NYC; De Appel, Amsterdam; Exit Art, NYC; Subliminal Projects Gallery, LA.

Filmography