Pricks Numbed by Habit Sculpture

Susan Fitzsimmons is in the show Just Above Midtown, Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2022-2023. The exhibit was recently listed by Holland Carter and Roberta Smith as NY Times 2022 Ten Best of Art. In 1975 she moved to New York where she was part of a group of artists known as Contexturalists at JAM. In 1982, she moved out of the lower East Side (Henry Street Settlement House where she was Artist- in- Residence) to upstate NY (Round Lake). As a single mother she worked full time at Empire State College, Saratoga Springs. In 1999 she moved back home to St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis, Fitzsimmons did a series of performances at University of Missouri/St. Louis, Art COOP, Grandel Theatre, Lemp Art Center. In 2005 she moved to Hattiesburg MS to be Chair of the Art Department at University of Southern Mississippi. Susan moved (2010) from Mississippi to Mc Allen, Texas to be Professor/Chair of Art at the University of Texas Pan American. She was selected as Director at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2013). At University of Texas RGV, she received the Marialice Shary Shivers Endowed Chair of Art for the UT system.(2013-2016). She moved to Mobile, Alabama (2017). Susan Fitzsimmons is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of South Alabama. Her sculptures have been exhibited in major museums and collections throughout the world. Fitzsimmons’ work was included in shows in Peschiera del Garda, Venice, Florence, Rome, Italy; Barcelona, Spain and Berlin, Germany, China, South Africa, Mexico. Her work is pictured in Sculpture Magazine, Art International Magazine (2017), and "The Best Modern and Contemporary Artists” catalog, (Berlin, September 2017). Her last exhibition in Texas was reviewed in Sculpture Magazine. (2016)