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 EXHIBITIONS
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
Living Architecture, 6018 North, Chicago, IL

2017
They will bloom without you, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, 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
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 Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art, Bentoville, AR

2018
Local Comfort, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago IL

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

2015
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
Miami Basel, Miami, FL
NADA Fair, Miami FL
ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL

2012
Big Youth II, Bourouri 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
2022
Ally Fouts, Sculptural Puppeteer: A Review of Alex Chitty’s “Figs break open of themselves” at Patron, Newcity Art

2020
Lori Waxman, 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic: Alex Chitty
Raven Flaquez Munsell and Jack Schneider, Becoming The Breeze, The Museum of Contemporary Art
Anna Searle Jones, Alex Chitty: Things in Motion, Art Papers
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

2018
Elliot Reichert,“Art 50 2018: Chicago’s Artist’s Artists,” NewCity Art, August

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

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

2015
Manuel Rodriguez,“Manuel Rodriguez Interviews Alex Chitty,”Chicago Contemporary Art Seminar, September
Kim Morski,“Alex Chitty + Unison,” INUNISON blog, January
Jason Foumberg,“Who Sold at EXPO Chicago?,”Artsy Editorial, September
Ionit Behar,“Highlights and Surprises: A First Look at EXPO Chicago 2015,” ArtSlant Chicago, September
Paddy Johnson, Robin Dluzen,“10 Highlights from the EXPO Art Fair,” ArtFCity, Art Fair, September
Agathe Cancellieri,“EXPO Chicago 2015: Emergence of a Major Contemporary Art Fair,”L’Oeil de la Photographie, September

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
“Alex Chitty’s Additive Distortions and Photographic Sculptures,”INSIDE / WITHIN, August

2013
“Breakout Artists 2013: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers, Alex Chitty,” Newcity Art, April
“Artist of the Week: Alex Chitty,” LVL3, March


RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
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
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

2008
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