ALEX CHITTY (she/her/they/them) (b. 1979, Little Havana, Miami, FL) grew up between the United States and Britain. Chitty studied theater, dance, literature, botany, marine biology, and fine art at Smith College (BFA, 2001) and earned her MFA (2008) with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Printmedia Department. Through shifts in context, display, and function, Chitty’s practice draws attention to how gender, emotion, politics, and culture are intrinsically embedded in the images, objects, designs, and overall infrastructure of our everyday surroundings. Conceptually layered works combine multiple artistic disciplines, materials and techniques borrowed from both the hand-crafted and industrially produced. Chitty has exhibited nationally and internationally and is a professor at SAIC in the Printmedia, Sculpture, and Ceramic Departments.
Featured Artworks
Ptng#12 (Swipe), 2016
Walnut, painted steel, nickel-plated steel, altered spoons, cotton, nylon, lucite, xerox print, teak hull, cast brass
Image by Evan Jenkins
the sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything (unit 5), 2016
Powder coated steel, blackened steel, glass, oak, ceramics
Image by Aaron Gent
The sun slinks indoors on a marmalade cat, 2016
Archival inkjet print with unique walnut frame
Image by Evan Jenkins
Lifelong Conversations Between Women
Fused stoneware bowls, cast birds from a hotel ashtray, African mahogany, black-oxide plated steel, soldered brass
Image by Evan Jenkins
Men and Their Circumstances, 2023
Leather from a Mies van Der Rohe chair, brass ashtray, and nickel-plated steel tubing
Image by Evan Jenkins
Hone, 2025
Sun-bleached curtains (Miles van Der Rohe, McCormick House)
Image by Ian Vecchiotti
Lynx, 2025
Cast perfume bottle (white bronze), grey glass and empty crate
Image by Ian Vechiotti
The sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything (unit 1), 2016
Cast broze (Popeye arm), marine worm shells, duracal (palm tree trunk), brass, paper towel roll, lucite frame, photograph, porcelain, black glassware, twine, cotton ribbon, walnut, oak, mahogany, smokey glass, blackened steel and powder coated steel
Image by Aaron Gent