Bill FitzGibbons

Bill FitzGibbons (born 1950) is an American artist born in Memphis, Tennessee, known for public light sculptures and environmental art. FitzGibbons has worked with sculpture for over thirty years, and has done projects in numerous countries, including Finland, Iceland, Germany, and the UK. He attended the University of Tennessee and then Washington University in St. Louis. FitzGibbons credits the Russian Constructivists, particularly their sculpture and philosophy, with exerting impact on his early work. When he received the award, FitzGibbons expressed the hope that "more attention on the state level can be brought to the arts, so the government can understand that the support of the visual and performing arts in the state actually is an investment in our future and it should be one of the fundamentals of education."

Artistic style Public Art Light Sculpture An example of a FitzGibbons public art light sculpture would be his LightRails. 1996 Rhode Island Lights, exterior, neon sculpture at the Rhode Island Convention Center. (Providence, RI) 2001 Duck Pond Plaza, design Team with Groves and Associates, redesign of a neighborhood park with public art. (San Antonio, TX) 2003–2005 Skywall, 60’ long sculpture with LED lights at the Bush Intercontinental Airport. (Houston, TX) 2006 Light Channels, site-specific, public art project consisting of aluminum sculptures and hundreds of LED lights. Installed at the I-37 underpasses at Houston and Commerce Streets. (San Antonio, TX) 2006 Day Star Archway, 40' tall archway and walkway at the San Antonio International Airport. (San Antonio, TX) 2008 Alamo Lights, site-specific, ephemeral light installation on the Alamo; Luminaria festival. (San Antonio, TX) 2010 Knoxville ColorLine, Site-specific ephemeral light installation at the Knoxville Museum of Art. (Knoxville, TN) 2013 San Antonio Colorline, a permanent, site-specific LED light sculpture for the downtown Robert B. Green University Health System Clinic. (San Antonio, TX) 2013 LightRails, downtown. (Birmingham, AL) 2014 Culebra Plaza, environmental plaza with LED light sculpture. This artwork was in collaboration with the local neighborhood association and school. (San Antonio, TX) 2016 Centro Chrome Tower, an 85-foot interactive light sculpture tower that is part of the new downtown Westside Transit Center. (San Antonio, TX) 2016 Kinetic Skyline, a permanent, site-specific LED light sculpture for the Bank of America plaza building. 2018 El Paso Passage, site-specific computerized LED light sculpture under Airways Blvd. at the entrance to the El Paso International Airport. 2019 West Palm Beach Lights, site-specific computerized LED sculpture on the new Braman Motorcars facility, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Exhibitions 2007 Shattering Glass, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York 2008 Alamo Lights, Luminaria: Arts Night in SA San Antonio, Texas 2021 The State of Sculpture, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas

Awards 1993 Fulbright Scholar, Hungarian Academy of Art and Design 2012 Texas State 3D Artist, Texas Commission on the Arts 2017 Arts & Letters Award, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library 2022 CODAworx, Stockyard Spectrum selected as one of the Top 100 International Public Art Projects