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Alex Chitty

Associate Professor, Adjunct

Bio

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. 

Exhibitions: 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. Bibliography: 2023, Robin Dluzen, Alex Chitty, Visual Art Source; 2022, Annette Le Pique, How to View a Solar Eclipse: Both And at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 60 inches from Center; 2020, Lori Waxman, 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic: Alex Chitty; 2020, Raven Falquez Munsell and Jack Schneider, Becoming The Breeze, The Museum of Contemporary Art; 2020 Anna Searle Jones, Alex Chitty: Things in Motion, Art Papers. Awards: Writer-in-Residence, Writing Space, Chicago, IL; Illinois Arts Council Agency, Artist Fellowship Award in Visual Based Arts, Chicago, IL; DCASE, Individual Artist Program Grant, City of Chicago, IL; Artist Residency, Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, MX; The Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists; Artists-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Ohama NE.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1701

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1932

Credits

3 - 6