Dylan Charlton (b. 2003, Chico, CA) is a multi-media artist who earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at California State University, Chico in 2025. During his studies he worked at the A Gallery and the Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, where his engagement with curatorial theory and gallery productions informed the conceptual trajectory of his practice. Charlton’s work explores institutional frameworks; how they construct cultural narratives, mediate access, and intersect with individual histories. This approach positions his studio practice as a site for examining the reciprocal relationship between personal experience and the systems that contextualize it.

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  • Chico State 

    August 2023 - December 2025, Chico CA

     B.F.A. - Studio Arts, Painting/ Drawing Emphasis 

    Butte College

    August 2020 - May 2023, Oroville CA

    Art Studio A.A.

  • Education and Outreach Assistant - Janet Turner Print Museum

    2026 - Present

    Gallerist Assistant - Jacki Headley University Art Gallery and A Gallery, Chico State 

    2025

    Curator - The Alcove 

    2025

    Research Assistant - Rachel Middleman, Art Department Chair, Chico State

    Spring 2025

  • President - Painting and Drawing Club, Chico State

    2025

    Internship - Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico State  

    Spring 2024

    Gallery Productions, Butte College 

    Butte College, Spring 2023

  • Hush-hush - B-So Gallery, Chico State 

    Solo B.F.A. Culminating Exhibition

    November 2025, Chico CA

    Engraved Memories - The Alcove 

    October 2025, Chico CA

    Office Hours, Faculty and Staff Exhibition - Jacki Headley 

    August - December 2025, Chico CA

    The Basics - The Alcove 

    May 2025, Chico CA

    69th Annual Juried Student Exhibition  - Jacki Headley, Chico State

    April - May 2025, Chico CA

    Dreams - B-So Gallery, Chico State

    October 2024, Chico CA

    Contemporary Painters - B-So Gallery, Chico State

    December 2023, Chico CA

    Nature's Reflection: Identities in Bloom - MONCA

    October 2023, Chico CA

    Coming out for the Arts - MONCA 

    October 2023, Chico CA

    39th Annual Juried Art & Design Student Exhibition - Butte Gallery, Butte College 

    April 2023 - May 2023, Oroville CA

  • Jennifer Tancreto Memorial Award

    California State University, Chico

    2026

  • Curatorial - Gallery installation, catalogue design, lighting, ADA compliance, collection management, museum archiving, crate building, shipping handling, exhibition statement writing, making show cards, authentication research

    Metalwork - Chasing and repoussé, silver smithing, bezel setting, soldering, ring sizing and measuring, surface treatments, polishing, jump ring making


    Painting - Acrylic, watercolor, canvas stretching, building stretcher bars, panel framing, installing gallery wire, color mixing, glazing methods


    Printmaking - Linocut, monoprint, embossment, woodblock, collagraph, drypoint, screenprint, mat cutting 


    Drawing Mediums - Dry pastel, oil pastel, graphite, charcoal, ink, colored pencil 

    Digital - Blender, Procreate, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, photo manipulation, poster design

    Ceramic - Mold making, hand building, coil building, slab building, surface techniques 

    Woodwork - Jigsaw, hand saw, table saw, router, staple gun, nail gun, drill,  construction methods, surface treatments