Alice Tippit

Alice Tippit (b. 1975 Independence, KS) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Playfully erotic, Tippit’s surrealist-inspired canvases function as visual poems or puns, resisting their often enigmatic titles. Unfolding references from art history, advertising, and linguistic metaphor, Tippit’s carefully selected color palette, and flat, graphic style mask her carefully constructed hand-painted surfaces. 

Tippit received an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 and a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Her first institutional solo exhibition will be mounted in 2026 by the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago.  

Since 2020, Tippit’s solo and two-person exhibitions include, The Deep Element (2024), PATRON, Chicago, IL;  Zero eroS (2023), Rodolphe Janssen, Belgium; Surely Any S is Welcome (2023), Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Palsied Egg Thief (2021), Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA; Pallid Carrier (2020), PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL; Unspelt (2020), Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY.  Select group exhibitions include: Moreover: 50 Paintings (2024), the Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Dialogues (2023), PATRON, Chicago, IL;  The Moon and I (2023), GRIMM, New York, NY; Basic Fit (2023), Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium; (m)ad-libs (2022), George Adams Gallery, New York, NY; Sarah Braman, Ellen Gronemeyer, Margherita Manzelli and Alice Tippit (in cooperation with Kimerich) (2022), Linn Luhn gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (2022), Kansas City, MO and Contemporary Arts Center (2021), Cincinnati, OH; Feelings are Facts (2021), Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA; After Daan Van Golden (2021), Parts Project, The Hague, NL; Won’t you be my neighbor (2020), Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY; Painting As Is (2020), Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY; and Small Painting (2019), Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL.