JUNE 21 - AUGUST 16, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION | Saturday, June 21, 5:00 – 7:30pm
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. Each artwork leans on borrowed histories, past lives, and accumulative actions, all toying with the notion of how ‘mine’ is, perhaps, an impossibility.
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ALEX CHITTY (b. 1979, Miami, FL) lives and works in Chicago. Chitty received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Smith College with a combined major in fine art, biology and education. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Printmedia department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recent exhibitions include: 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 CenterChicago, 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.
Chitty is the recipient of a Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship Award (2022); DCASE Individual Arts Program Grant (2021); The Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2017); has been an artist in residence at Writing Space, Chicago (2023); Warburg Library, London (2019); Wright Auction House (2019); Fundación Casa Wabi; Oaxaca (2018); Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2017); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2015); Cargo Space, Milwaukee (2014); Latitude, Chicago (2014), among others.
