SaraNoa Mark
Education
2019 - 2020 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
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Waubonsee Community College, IL
2023 Land Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2021 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Time as a tool, with Assaf Evron, Hyde Park Art Center at EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 Temporarily Removed, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Amuleto, Chicago, IL Curated by Alberto Aguilar and Madeline Aguilar
2023 the shape of your error, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey Curated by Melih Aydemir
2023 This Earth, Concord Art, Concord, MA Curated by Stefan Hagan
2022 Carved Conversations, Sultan Han, Turkey
2022 And Still No Rain, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON Curated by Madeleine Taurins and Melanie Scheiner
2022 Encounters, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2022 The Land Between The Sea, Engage Projects, Chicago, IL Curated by Noah Hanna
2022 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 Barely Fair with Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Moon Spiral Heart Attack, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
2022 Visualizing Spaces, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2021 We Are All Guests Here, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 This Earth: Notes and Observations, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
2021 What flies but never lands, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Minh Nguyen
2021 Hypnotic Stranger, Night Club, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Tender to the bone, Goldfinch Gallery, IL Curated by Elizabeth Lalley
2021 Havruta, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Shterna Goldbloom and Liam O'Connor
2021 Visual Sirens, St. Kate, Milwaukee, WI Curated by David Najib Kasir
2021 Codex Project, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 LtdWear5, Tusk + LVL3, Chicago, IL
2021 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
2020 Surface Tension, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Pia Singh
2020 Preserving a Find, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Adam Lovitz and Megan Biddle
2019 The Shape of a Whisper and Its Echo, Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL
2019 An Archive of Touch, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Time Share, Monaco, Saint Louis, Missouri Curated by Jeff Robinson
2019 Art at Kings Oaks, Newton, PA
2019 Do what you love, bring what you got, come as you are, Oggi Chicago, IL
2019 Luminarts Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago,IL
2019 Sub(Urban), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Audrey Moyer
2018 Preview 8, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL Curated by Jared Quinton
2018 PLS, White Columns Curated by Francisco Correa Cordero
2018 Impossible Archive, Historic Landmark Building, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Winter Selection, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2018 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Enrico Gomez
2017 Recent Contemporary Works, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2017 Lower Gallery Group Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2017 Emerging Artist Exhibit, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Lower Gallery Group Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2017 The Imperceptive, NoBA Artspace, Bala Cynwyd, PA
2017 Meditations, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Leigh Werrell
2016 Places Recalled, Three-person exhibition, Groton Public Library, Groton, MA
2016 Responding to Place, Concord Art, Concord, MA (exhibition catalogue)
2016 Paths that cross, The Cameron St Gallery, Winchester, VA Curated by Drew Kohler
2016 50 Shades of Red, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2016 Personal Space, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Leigh Werrell
2015 Group Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2015 Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Drawing Room Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2015 Emerging Artists Exhibition from PAFA, Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford, PA Curated by E.M. Saniga
2014 Drawing Not Drawing, C. Royce Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Astrid Bowlby, Robert
Cozzolino
2014 The Journey, Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
2014 Essential Variations, Gallery 128, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Astrid Bowlby, Peter Van Dyck
2014 Convergence, Gallery 128, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Neysa Grassi, Bill Scott
Grants / Awards
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2022 Luminarts Project Grant
2021 U.S. Mission to Turkey's Embassy Grants Program, U.S. Embassy Ankara, Turkey
2021 Individual Artist Program, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2020 Illinois Arts Council Agency Individual Artists Support Program
2020 West Collections LIFTS Grant
2019-2020 Fulbright Research Award, Turkey
2019 Luminarts Fellowship, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
2019 SPARK Grant, supported by the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, IL
2015 The John Anson Kittredge Fund
2015 The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award
2015 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Venture Fund
2015 Award of Excellence, VSA Arts, Washington, DC
2014 The Women’s Board Travel Scholarship, Europe
2014 The Hobson Pittman Memorial Prize
2011-2015 Academic Scholarship at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2011-2015 Portfolio Merit Award, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
Residencies
2023 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Bronx, NY
2022 Urban Atölye, Istanbul, TR
2019 Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018 - 2019 BOLT Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 Montello Foundation, Montello, Nevada
2016 Art Kibbutz Residency, Governors Island, NY
2016 Sedona Summer Colony, Invited Inaugural Resident, Sedona, AZ
2014 The Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency
Bibliography
Yıldız Öztürk, Sanat ve güvencesizlik: Artık konuşmanın zamanı gelmedi mi?, Argonotlar, January, 2023
Matt Hanson, Carved Conversations, ArtAsiaPacific, November, 2022
Armin Rosen, A Sukkah in February, and the Revelations Within, Tablet, February, 2022
Cooper Johnson, We Are All Guests Here, Art [Memo], December, 2021
Matt Stromberg, Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition, Hyperallergic,
November, 2021
Kerry Cardoza, Time Marches Forward: What Flies But Never Lands? Asks Us To Reconsider The Past, Newcity,
July, 2021
Kerry Cardoza, Art Top 5: August 2021, Newcity, July, 2021
Row Särkelä, Review: LtdWear5 at LVL3, Sixty Inches From Center, June, 2021
Christina Nafziger, Review: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E at Goldfinch Gallery, Sixty Inches from Center, April, 2021
Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min COVID Edition: SaraNoa Mark, Newcity, April 2021
Kerry Cardoza, Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers, Newcity, March 2021
Kerry Cardoza, Art Top 5: April 2021 , Newcity, March 2021
The Visualist, TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/25-3/3), Bad at Sports, February 2021
Edith Newhall, Here are the shows you should see in Philly art galleries now, Philadelphia
Inquirer, February 2020
ART AT KING OAKS: Bucks County couple curates art exhibition at Wrightstown Township farm, Buck Local
News, 2020
Amanda Dee, Processing An Archive of Touch at Goldfinch Gallery, Sixty Inches From Center, July 2019
Rusty Freeman, "Time Share" and "Warm Welcome" at Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, New Art Examiner, July 2019
Jasmine Weber, Art Movements, Hyperallergic, April 2019
Claire Selvin, Chicago Artists Coalition Names Inaugural Recipients of SPARK Microgrants, ARTNEWS, April
2019
Pia Singh, Traces of Absence: A Review of SaraNoa Mark at Chicago Artists Coalition, Newcity, April 2019
Liam Ze'ev O'Conner Temporarily Removed @ CAC, the Merg, April 2019
Chester Alamo-Costello, SaraNoa Mark A Conversation with Ancient Objects, The COMPMagazine, May 2018
Gordon Stillman, Personal Space, Title Magazine, February 2016
J. Chambless, Emerging artists shine in Oxford exhibit, Chester County Press, March 2015
Visiting Artist / Lectures / Panels
2023 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Water Drawing: Rituals of Return, Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, Graduate
Theological Union
2022 Panelist, The Uncertainty of Rain, Creative Impact Lab Amman, a ZERO1 international exchange
supported by U.S.Embassy Amman and co-produced with IDare for Sustainable Development.
2021 Artist Talk, What Ifs and Maybes?, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 Artist Talk, Experimental Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021 Artist Talk, Aurora University, IL
2021 Artist Talk, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Guest Lecturer, Department of Arts Administration and Policy, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
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 Bible through the Lens of Medieval Christian Art,” The MET Cloisters, New
York, NY
Collections
Architectural intervention within at Sultan Han, a 13th century Seljuk caravanserai in Turkey
West Collection
Parachute Home, Commissioned Work, Chicago
Related Experience
2017 - Present 4th Ward Project Space Co-Director, Chicago, IL
2016 - 2019 Museum Guard, Oriental Institute, Chicago, IL