Alex Chitty’s practice questions the histories of objects and images by challenging how meaning is constructed and perceptions are created. Through shifts in context, display, and function, Chitty subverts and subjugates the ways in which gender, politics, and culture inform our personal and collective narratives.

CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1979, Miami, FL
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

EDUCATION
2008
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003
The Art Students League, New York, NY

2001
BFA, Smith College, Northampton, MA

1997
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Entirely opposite, with moments of overlap, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL

2022
Figs break open of themselves, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2019 - 2020
Becoming The Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2018
pulling flavor from the dirt, PATRON, Chicago, IL
After (the sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything), The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2017
They Will Bloom Without You, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
In/Situ, curated by Florence Derieux, EXPO, Chicago, IL

2016
Slight Pitch, LUCE, Turin, Italy
the sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Turning Forks into Spoons, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2015
Alex Chitty and Chris Bradley, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

2014
Orchid, ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL

2013
The Way They Wanted to Sleep, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alex Chitty: Recent Work, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Platonic Year, Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2012
Recent Work, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL 
Platonic Year, Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Dialogues, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Bright day will turn to night, my love, Tiny Table Gallery, Chicago, IL
Amuleto, Hyde Park Art Center, Forest Park, IL

2021
Both And, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL
No Soft Edges: Women in Minimalism, GAVLAK Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Traces on the Surface of the World, GAVLAK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020
State of the Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art, Bentoville, AR

2019
In the Hot Seat, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

2018
Local Comfort, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago IL
Living Architecture, 6018 North, Chicago, IL

2017
Stranger Things, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Objectifying the Photograph, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL

2015
Condensed Matter, Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, WI
Theory of Forms, PATRON, Chicago, IL
GYRE, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA

2014
Almost Ergonomic, Studio 424, Chicago, IL
Fragments of an Unknowable Whole, OSU (Urban Arts Space) Columbus, OH
Lateral, The Mission, Houston, TX
Codification, LVL3, Chicago, IL

2013
Ella Hatchet, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
No Coast Editions: Volume I, No Coast, Chicago, IL
No Show, West Pilsen Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL
It’s Not You; It’s Me, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Grand Opening, Forever & Always, Chicago, IL

2012
Big Youth II, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Dolphin Days, Alderman Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
The Black Arts, Roxa Boxen Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2011
Two, XY and Z, Minneapolis, MN
Beach Party, Hills Aesthetic Center, Chicago, IL
Better Favorite, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL

2010
Incised, Bitten, & Gouged, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Bird x Bird, Northrup King Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2009
Embodiment, Eel Space, Chicago, IL
$(Heart), NFO XPO: Version>09
Immodest Proposals, Chicago, IL
Case by Case, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008
Pluck, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Book Art, Kyung-In-Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea

2007
One of One, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL

2006
Wide and Wooly, Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
The Emerald City, RIDER Project, Chicago, IL
Yeti, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 
Ally Fouts, Microcosm: A review of “Dialogues”, Newcity Art, November 29
Art 50 2023: Chicago’s Artist’s Artists, Newcity Art, September 5 
Robin Dluzen, Alex Chitty, Visual Art Source, January

2022
Ally Fouts, Sculptural Puppeteer: A Review of Alex Chitty’s “Figs break open of themselves” at Patron, Newcity Art, December 2

2021
Annette LePique, How to View a Solar Eclipse: Both And at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Sixty Inches From Center, December 10

2020
Lori Waxman, Alex Chitty, 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic, November 10
Raven Flaquez Munsell and Jack Schneider, Becoming The Breeze, The Museum of Contemporary Art, December 2
Anna Searle Jones, Alex Chitty: Things in Motion, Art Papers, July 30 
Ben Davis, Arkansas’ Crystal Bridges Museum Just Opened a Sprawling Show about the State of American Art Today. Here’s What It Looks Like, Artnet News, February 24 

2018
Elliot Reichert, Art 50 2018: Chicago’s Artist’s Artists, Newcity Art, August 30

2017
Kate Sierzputowski, More than 150 artists counteract a GOP watch list, Triumph Gallery, Chicago Reader, May 24 

2016
Jason Foumberg, Critic’s Pick, Artforum, February 19
2016 Best of Chicago/Rising Artist, Chicago Magazine, July 11
Molly Elizade, 10 Artists to Watch from NADA Art Fair, Sweet, May 17
Jongho Lee, Eyes Toward the Dove-Top Picks NADA NY, May 17
Brian Boucher, Booths I Could Hardly Tear Myself Away from at NADA NY, Artnet, May 6
Kat Herriman, Fairs to Check Out this Weekend, The New York Times, May 6

2015
Manuel Rodriguez, Manuel Rodriguez Interviews Alex Chitty, Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar, September 2
Kim Morski, Alex Chitty + Unison, inunison blog, January 13 
John Preus, Who Sold at EXPO Chicago?, Artsy Editorial, September 22 
Ionit Behar, Highlights and Surprises: A First Look at EXPO Chicago 2015, ArtSlant Chicago, September 18 
Paddy Johnson, Robin Dluzen, 10 Highlights from the EXPO Art Fair, Art F City, September 19
Agathe Cancellieri, EXPO Chicago 2015: Emergence of a Major Contemporary Art Fair, L’Oeil de la Photographie, September 29

2014
Kate Sierzputowski, Best of 2014: Our Top Ten Exhibitions Across the United States, Almost Ergonomic, curated by Third Object, at Studio 424 (Chicago), HyperAllergic, December 26 
Alex Chitty’s Additive Distortions and Photographic Sculptures, Interview, INSIDE / WITHIN, August 1

2013
Stephanie Cristello, Ella Hatchet: Alex Chitty and Alice Tippit at Roots & Culture, New American Paintings, July 2
Breakout Artists 2013: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers, Alex Chitty, Newcity Art, April 25 
Artist of Artist of the Week: Alex Chitty, Interview, LVL3, March 11


RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2023
Writer-in-Residence, Writing Space, Chicago, IL

2022
Illinois Arts Council Agency, Artist Fellowship Award in Visual Based Arts, Chicago, IL

2021
DCASE, Individual Artist Program Grant, Chicago, IL

2019
Warburg Library, University of London, London, England
Wright Auction House, Chicago, IL
Artist Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago, IL

2018
Artist Residency, Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, MX

2017
The Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists 
Artists-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Ohama, NE

2015
Artist Residency, Real Time & Space, Oakland, CA Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2014
Artist Residency, Cargo Space, Milwaukee, WS & Chicago, IL 2014 Artist in Residence, Latitude, Chicago, IL

2013 
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2012
CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL 2011 Artist Residency, ACRE, WI

2011
Artist Residency, Oxbow, MI

2010
Artist Residency, ACRE, WI

2008
MFA Fellowship Award, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Fred A. Hillbruner Artists’ Book Fellowship, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2007
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Department of Education, Washington DC

2006
The William T. Colville Foundation Travel Grant, Santa Barbara, CA
Artist Residency, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR