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 (aka “
George Landow”),
Stan Brakhage,
Yvonne Rainer,
Carolee Schneemann and
Vito Acconci. Fitzgibbon worked on film and sound projects for
Dennis Oppenheim,
Gordon Matta-Clark and
Les Levine. Fitzgibbon formed the collaborative
X&Y project with
Robin Winters in 1976 and helped form the
conceptual art project called
The Offices of Peter Fend, Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and Robin Winters in 1979 (the same year she performed at
Public Arts International/Free Speech). She co-founded the New York-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (
Colab) in 1977, along with forty plus artists. She was president of
Colab during the formation of
The Times Square Show. Fitzgibbon and
Alan W. Moore created an 11:41-minute film in 1978 (finished in 2009) of a
No Wave concert to benefit Colab's
X Motion Picture Magazine 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 the
Salon 94 art gallery in New York City. Fitzgibbon has also screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including: the
New Museum,
Vienna International Film Festival,
Hunter College,
Toronto International Film Festival,
Museum of Modern Art,
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago,
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels,
Institute of Contemporary Arts London,
Anthology Film Archives,
Light Industry in New York City,
De Appel in Amsterdam,
Exit Art, and Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles. Fitzgibbon appears in an on-camera interview in the 2017 documentary film
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat by
Sara Driver that contains extensive coverage of
Colab,
The Real Estate Show,
The Times Square Show and
ABC No Rio. ==Filmography==