SaraNoa Mark
Education
2023 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
‘19-’20 Fulbright Research Award, Anatolian Living Rock Monuments and the Art of Place, Turkey
2015 BFA Pennsylvania Academy of theFine Arts (hereafter PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2023 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
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,Expo Chicago with Newcity Magazine, 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 ArtCenter, 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, ConcordArt, 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 & Langdale Company, 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
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 Rock Monuments and the Art of Place”, Turkey
Luminarts Fellowship, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
SPARK Grant, supported by the JoyceFoundation in Chicago, IL
2015 The John Anson Kittredge Fund
2015 The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award
Pennsylvania Academy of theFine Arts Venture Fund
Award of Excellence, VSA Arts,Washington, DC
2014 The Women’s Board Travel Scholarship, Europe
The Hobson Pittman Memorial Prize
Residencies
2023 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Bronx, NY
2022 Urban Atölye, Istanbul, TR
2019 Jackman Goldwasser Residency, HydePark 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
Sedona Summer Colony, Invited Inaugural Resident, Sedona, AZ
2014 The Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency
Bibliography
2023 Hyperallergic: Rhea Nayyar, Chicago Artists Exploring Meaning-Making Win 2023 Artadia Awards
ArtNews: Maximiliano Duran, Artist Award Roundup: Preis derNationalgalerie Goes to Four Artists, Sobey ArtAward Reveals Long List, and More
Newcity: Ray Pride, Today In The Culture, April11, 2023: Artadia Awards Named
Argonotlar: Yıldız Öztürk, Sanat ve güvencesizlik: Artıkkonuşmanın zamanı gelmedi mi?
2022 ArtAsiaPacific: Matt Hanson,Carved Conversations
Tablet: Armin Rosen, A Sukkah in February, and theRevelations Within
2021 Art [Memo]: Cooper Johnson, We Are All Guests Here
Hyperallergic: Matt Stromberg, Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, GivenShape by a Jewish Tradition
Newcity: Kerry Cardoza, Time Marches Forward: What Flies ButNever 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 ofImage 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: EdithNewhall, Here are the shows you should see inPhilly art galleries now
Buck Local News: ART AT KING OAKS: Bucks County couplecurates art exhibition at Wrightstown Townshipfarm
Sixty Inches From Center: Amanda Dee, Processing An Archive of Touch atGoldfinch Gallery
New Art Examiner: Rusty Freeman, "Time Share" and "WarmWelcome" at Monaco Gallery
2019 Hyperallergic: Jasmine Weber, Art Movements
ARTNEWS: Claire Selvin, Chicago Artists Coalition NamesInaugural Recipients of SPARK Microgrants
Newcity: Pia Singh, Traces of Absence: A Review ofSaraNoa Mark at Chicago Artists Coalition
the Merg: Liam Ze'ev O'Conner Temporarily Removed @ CAC
2018 The COMPMagazine: Chester Alamo-Costello, SaraNoa Mark A Conversation with Ancient Objects
2016 Title Magazine: Gordon Stillman, PersonalSpace
2015 Chester County Press: J. Chambless, Emerging artists shine in Oxford exhibit
Lectures + Visiting Artist + Panels
2023 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Water Drawing: Rituals of Return, Berkeley Artand Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, Graduate Theological Union
The Uncertainty of Rain, Creative Impact Lab Amman, a ZERO1 exchange supported by U..S, Embassy Amman, co-produced with IDare for Sustainable Development.
2021 Artist Talk, What Ifs and Maybes?, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Experimental Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, Aurora University, IL
Artist Talk, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Guest Lecturer, Departmentof Arts Administration and Policy, The School of the Art Institute ofChicago, Chicago, IL
2020 Community lunch talks with Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero and SaraNoa Mark hosted by Sarah Khalid Dhobhany, Mana Contemporary Chicago
2019 Gallery Talk: "Drawing from the Oriental Institute," The Oriental Institute, 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 Gallery Talk: “The Hebrew Biblet hrough the Lens of Medieval Christian Art,” The MET Cloisters, New York, NY
Collections
Sultan Han, Public architectural intervention at a 13th century Seljuk caravanserai in Turkey
West Collection
Parachute Home, Commissioned Work, Chicago
Related Experience
2017- 2023 4th Ward Project Space Co-Director, Chicago, IL
2016 – 2020 Museum Guard, Oriental Institute, Chicago, IL