Chris Fitch

I was born in Fargo, North Dakota around 1970, but grew up in rural Connecticut, where my family ran a puppet theater. Now I exist as a sculptor and inventor in the Boston area. Beyond work in sculpture, my creative reach has touched upon stop motion animation, science museum exhibits, design of teaching tools for science and math education, and independent invention.
I have engineered and built automated production machines for a toy factory, run an "emergency amusement" company with my brother -- building things like a giant fly that exploded through the wall of a nightclub or staging things like a shark attack at a fancy restaurant. I led the model and stop-motion puppet making division of a major animation company for six years, designed a physics playground, hit the streets of France with a two-man junk band with instruments made from French trash, have designed landscapes, residential furniture and lighting, built outdoor fountains, architectural models, studied music in West Africa, invented fasteners, toys, and armature systems for the animation industry, done some screen acting, built chain-reaction Rube Goldberg installations, and conducted workshops about kinematics and foam latex stop motion puppetry. I ha...

EDUCATION:

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, B.A. Film Studies, May 1988.
Honors: Cum Laude With Distinction in the Major, Jonathan Edwards Arts Prize, Bates Memorial Grant for the Arts.

Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1983.
Honors: Cum Laude Society, Draper Memorial Prize for Declamation, Latin Departmental Award for Declamation, Theater Departmental Award for Directing.

SCULPTURE EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS:
(mostly group shows)

2010
Findings, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA.
Great Small Works, St. Anns Warehouse, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
The Adventures of Innocence, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA.
-- (Two person show).
2009
(Ongoing) Toytem, Inventions Gallery, Hartford Science Center, Hartford, CT.
-- Interactive electronic sound/light sculpture made from circuit bent electronic toys celebrates the ancestral spirits of play and invention.
Point of View/Persistence of Vision, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA.
2008
Superartificial, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA.
2007
International Triennial, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka Japan.
-- Judge Special Prize winner.
Technomorph, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA.
2006
Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
Cape C...