SaraNoa Mark
Education
2023 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
‘19-’20 Fulbright Research Award, Anatolian Living Rock Monuments and the Art of Place, Turkey
2015 BFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (hereafter PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Dreamsong, solo exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Objects & Power, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine Collegeof Art
Lambertville Painting Show, Hibernia Firehouse, NJ
Artadia, three-person exhibition at EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 Closing the Circle, MATCA Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Groundwork, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
Amuleto, Mayfeild, Chicago, IL Curated by Alberto Aguilar and Madeline Aguilar
the shape of your error, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey Curated by Melih Aydemir
This Earth, Concord Art, Concord, MA Curated by Stefan Hagan
2022 Carved Conversations, Sultan Han, Turkey
And Still No Rain, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON Curated by Madeleine Taurins and Melanie Scheiner
Encounters, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The Land Between the Sea, Engage Projects, Chicago, IL Curated by Noah Hanna
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Barely Fair with Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
Moon Spiral Heart Attack, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
Visualizing Spaces, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2021 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E, Solo Exhibition, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
We Are All Guests Here, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Exhibition book)
This Earth: Notes and Observations, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
What flies but never lands, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Minh Nguyen
Hypnotic Stranger, Night Club, Minneapolis, MN
Tender to the bone, Goldfinch Gallery, IL Curated by Elizabeth Lalley
Havruta, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Shterna Goldbloom and Liam O'Connor
Visual Sirens, St. Kate, Milwaukee, WI Curated by David Najib Kasir
Codex Project, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
LtdWear5, Tusk + LVL3, Chicago, IL
Newcity's Breakout Artists, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2020 Chicago Sculptural Biennial, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Curated by Adrienne Kochman
Surface Tension, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Pia Singh
Preserving a Find, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Adam Lovitz and Megan Biddle
2019 Temporarily Removed, Solo exhibition, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Time as a tool, two-person exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center at EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Shape of a Whisper and Its Echo, Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL
An Archive of Touch, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
Time Share, Monaco, Saint Louis, Missouri Curated by Jeff Robinson
Art at Kings Oaks, Newton, PA
Do what you love, bring what you got, come as you are, Oggi Chicago, IL
Luminarts Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sub(Urban), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Audrey Moyer
2018 Preview 8, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL Curated by Jared Quinton
PLS, White Columns Curated by Francisco Correa Cordero
Impossible Archive, Historic Landmark Building, Philadelphia, PA
Winter Selection, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Enrico Gomez
2017 Recent Contemporary Works, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
Lower Gallery Group Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
Emerging Artist Exhibit, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Lower Gallery Group Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
The Imperceptive, NoBA Artspace, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Meditations, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Leigh Werrell
2016 Places Recalled, Three-person exhibition, Groton Public Library, Groton, MA
Responding to Place, Concord Art, Concord, MA (exhibition catalogue)
Paths that cross, The Cameron St Gallery, Winchester, VA Curated by Drew Kohler
50 Shades of Red, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Personal Space, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Leigh Werrell
2015 Group Exhibition, Davis & LangdaleCompany, New York, NY
Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Drawing Room Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Emerging Artists Exhibition from PAFA, Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford, PA Curated by E.M. Saniga
2014 Drawing Not Drawing, C. Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Astrid Bowlby, Robert Cozzolino
The Journey, Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
Essential Variations, Gallery 128, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Astrid Bowlby, Peter Van Dyck
Convergence, Gallery 128, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Neysa Grassi, Bill Scott
Grants +Awards
2024 Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists
2023 Chicago Artadia Award
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Luminarts Project Grant
2021 U.S. Mission to Turkey's Embassy Grants Program, U.S. Embassy Ankara, Turkey
Individual Artist Program, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2020 Illinois Arts Council Agency Individual Artists Support Program
West Collections LIFTS Grant
‘19-’20 Fulbright Research Award, “Living RockMonuments and the Art of Place”, Turkey
Luminarts Fellowship, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SPARK Grant, supported by the Joyce Foundationin Chicago, IL
2015 The John Anson Kittredge Fund
The Women’s Board Travel Scholarship, Europe
Residencies
2025 Dieu Donne, Brooklyn, NY
The Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
’24-’25 On Site Assistant Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan, NY
‘23-‘24 Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan, NY
2023 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Bronx, NY
2019 Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
’18-‘19 BOLT Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 Montello Foundation, Montello, Nevada
2016 Art Kibbutz Residency, Governors Island, NY
Bibliography
2024 Maine NPR Station, Heather McDougall, Sunday, October 27: Objects and Power
Portland Press Herald, Jorge S. Arango, A powerful show at MECA&D raises questions about the display of art
2023 The Markaz Review, Matt Hanson, Anatolian Journey: A Writer Travels to Sultan Han
Hyperallergic, Rhea Nayyar, Chicago Artists Exploring Meaning-Making Win 2023 Artadia Awards
ArtNews, Maximiliano Duran, Artist Award Round up: Preis der National galerie Goes to Four Artists, Sobey Art Award Reveals Long List, and More
Newcity: Ray Pride, Today In The Culture, April 11, 2023: Artadia Awards Named
Argonotlar: Yıldız Öztürk, Sanat ve güvencesizlik: Artık konuşmanın zamanı gelmedi mi?
2022 ArtAsiaPacific: Matt Hanson, Carved Conversation
Tablet, Armin Rosen, A Sukkah in February, and the Revelations Within
2021 Art [Memo], Cooper Johnson, We Are All Guests Here
Hyperallergic, Matt Stromberg,Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition
Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Time Marches Forward: What Flies But Never Lands? Asks Us To Reconsider The Past
Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Art Top 5: August 2021
Sixty Inches From Center, Row Särkelä, Review: LtdWear5 at LVL3
Sixty Inches from Center, Christina Nafziger, Review: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E at Goldfinch Gallery
Newcity, Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min COVID Edition: SaraNoa Mark
Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
Newcity, Kerry Cardoza, Art Top 5:April 2021
Bad at Sports, The Visualist, TOP V.WEEKEND PICKS (2/25-3/3)
2020 Philadelphia Inquirer, Edith Newhall, Here are the shows you should see in Philly art galleries now
Buck Local News: ART AT KINGOAKS: Bucks County couple curates art exhibition at Wrightstown Township farm
Sixty Inches From Center, Amanda Dee, Processing An Archive of Touch at Goldfinch Gallery
New Art Examiner, Rusty Freeman, "Time Share" and "Warm Welcome" at Monaco Gallery2019
Hyperallergic, Jasmine Weber, Art Movements
ARTNEWS, Claire Selvin, Chicago Artists Coalition Names Inaugural Recipients of SPARK Microgrants
Newcity, Pia Singh, Traces of Absence: A Review of SaraNoa Mark at Chicago Artists Coalition
the Merg, Liam Ze'ev O'Conner Temporarily Removed @ CAC
2018 The COMP Magazine, Chester Alamo-Costello, SaraNoa Mark A Conversation with Ancient Objects
Title Magazine, Gordon Stillman, Personal Space
2015
Publications
2023 Akiva Sanders – SaraNoa Mark, “Living Rock Monuments and Water in Mediterranean Anatolia: Three Case Studies.” Contributi e Materiali diArcheologia Orientale, XX:71-89
2022 SaraNoa Mark – Akiva Sanders Water Drawing: Rituals of Return, Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, Graduate Theological Union
Lectures + Visiting Artist + Panels
2023 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Panelist, The Uncertainty of Rain,Creative Impact Lab Amman, supported by U.S. Embassy Amman
2021 Artist Talk, Experimental Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 Gallery Talk: "Drawing from the Collection,"The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, IL
2018 Artist Talk, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
2016 Artist Talk, Groton Public Library, Groton,MA
2011 GalleryTalk: “The Hebrew Bible through the Lens of Medieval Christian Art,” The METCloisters, NY
Related Experience
2023 – Present Archivist for Frank Stella Estate
2017 – 2023 4th Ward Project Space Co-Director, Chicago, IL
2016 – 2020 Museum Guard, Institutefor the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum, Chicago, IL