The word ‘mine’ is both a declaration of ownership, and a verb that describes acts of excavation and extraction. Alex Chitty’s solo exhibition, Mine, is an assembly of new works situated within a former theater. The players perform discrete monologues, magnifying the value of what is already present–they are a demonstration. Each leans on borrowed histories, past lives, and accumulative actions, all toying with the notion of how ‘mine,’ is perhaps, an impossibility.
ALEX CHITTY (b. 1979, Miami, FL) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Chitty received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recent exhibitions include: Mine (2025), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Entirely opposite, with moments of overlap (2025), Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL; Dialogues (2023), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Bright day will turn to night, my love (2023), Tiny Table Gallery, Chicago, IL; Amuleto (2023), Mayfield, Forest Park, IL; Figs break open of themselves (2022), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Both And (2021), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL; State of the Art II (2020), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Becoming the Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; In the Hot Seat, KMAC Museum (2019), Louisville KY; pulling flavor from the dirt (2018), PATRON, Chicago, IL; After (the sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything) (2018),The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Living Architecture (2020), 6018 North, Chicago, IL; They will bloom without you (2017), Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst IL; Small Sculpture (2017), Corbett Vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL; Stranger Things (2017), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Objectifying the Photograph (2017), NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL; slight pitch (2016), LUCE Turin, Italy; the sun- drenched neutral that goes with everything (2016), PATRON Chicago, IL; Turning Spoons into Forks (2016), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Theory of Forms (2015), PATRON, Chicago, IL; Orchid (2014), ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL; Almost Ergonomic (2014), Studio 424, Chicago, IL; Codification (2014), LVL3, Chicago, IL; Alex Chitty: Recent Work (2013), Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL and Ella Hatchet (2013) at Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL, amongst many others.
