Kit Fitzgerald, Pioneering Video Artist With a Painter’s Sensibility, Has Died at 73

Kit Fitzgerald, a pioneering American video artist known for bringing a painterly sensibility to electronic media, died on August 3 at age 73, according to an announcement by her husband and longtime collaborator Peter Gordon. Fitzgerald, trained as a painter, described her approach as “technology with a humanness,” using vivid color, dynamic light, and gestural motion in video and performance collaborations with composers, poets, and choreographers. Beginning in 1984, she and Gordon worked internationally, including performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto in Tokyo and a landmark live show with Max Roach at La Mama in New York. Fitzgerald and John Sanborn were early recipients of commissions from PBS and the BBC; their collaboration Interpolation (1979) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023. Her work was also included in major institutional surveys such as MoMA’s “Video Art: A History” (1983), curated by Barbara London, and “The Arts for Television” (1989), where Fitzgerald contributed To Sorrow (1984).

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