Barry Fitzgerald is a multi-disciplinary artist and visual communicator who loves the challenge of making images that engage intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically. He uses metaphorical, narrative, and symbolic concepts to explore personal, social, and cultural observations.

He has been in over 160 juried and invitational exhibitions including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received over 150 national and international awards for his work, including The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3X3, and was selected four times into 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a biennial juried book published by Luerzer’s Archive in Vienna, Austria.

His clients include AARP, Ford, Houge Winery, National Public Radio, Collective Arts Brewing, IBM, New York Times, PepsiCo, Playboy Jazz Festival, Verizon Wireless, among others.

Fitzgerald is also the program director for Illustration & Animation and a Professor of Illustration at The University of Kansas.