Chicago artist Todd Chilton will give a free public lecture sponsored and presented by the Grand Valley State University Visiting Artist Committee and Art & Design Department on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Haggar Auditorium in the GVSU Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences.
Born in Chula Vista, California in 1977, Chilton lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Chilton earned a B.F.A. from Brigham Young University in 2002, and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.
Exhibitions of his work–which feature hand-painted geometric abstractions–include “Angled” at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, “Evens” at the Central Utah Art Center, “For January” at Tony Wight Gallery, Lawrence University in Wis., and “The Suburban” in Oak Park, Illinois. Recent group shows of his work include exhibitions in Bellstreet Projects in Vienna, Austria, and the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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For more information about his lecture, contact Hsiao-ping Chen, assistant professor of art education, at (616) 331-3187.
