Alex Chitty

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Awards & Residencies

Finalist, Burke Craft Prize, MAD Museum, NY, NY
Residency, Writing Space, Chicago, IL
Fellowship, Visual Artists Award, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago, IL
Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Bridge Fund, NY, NY Grant, Individual Artist Grant, DCASE, Chicago, IL
Residency, Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, MX
Grant, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, Nancy Graves Foundation, NY, NY
Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha NE
Residency, Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
Residency, OxBow School of Art, Holland, MI
Residency, ACRE, Boscobel, WI
Grant, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Department of Education, Washington DC
Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR.

Press

2023
Ally Fouts, Microcosm: A Review of “Dialogues” at Patron, NewCity Art / November 29

Emeline Boehringer, Art 50 2023: Chicago’s Artist’s Artists, NewCity Art / September 5

Robin Dluzen, Alex Chitty, Visual Art Source / January

2022
Aly Fouts, Sculptural Puppeteer: Alex Chitty’s “Figs break open of themselves” at Patron, NewCity Art / December 2

Illinois Arts Council Agency Announces 2022 Artist Felloship Award Recipients,Illinois Arts Council Agency / May 27

2021
Annette LePique, How to View a Solar Eclipse: Both And at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 60 inches from Center / December 10

2020
Lori Waxman, Alex Chitty, 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic / November 10
Raven Falquez 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

2019
Raven Falquez Munsell and Jack Schneider, Becoming The Breeze, The Museum of Contemporary Art / December 2

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, Top Picks NADA NY, Eyes Toward the Dove / 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
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, Art Fair / 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 the Week: Alex Chitty, Interview, LVL3 / March 11