ALEXANDER NOVAK
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Advisors: Danny Floyd, Mindy Rose Schwartz
Pre-College 16mm Bolex Film and Experimental Video, University of Rochester
EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES
2024 No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab - Thimble’s Accent
(Performance), Chicago, IL
2022 Intersect Art-Space at Mana Contemporary - American Fashionism
(Performance), Chicago, IL
No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab - Train of the World:
the First Ever Movie (Performance), Chicago, IL
Happy Gallery - Hopeless Dream of Being (Curatorial Project),
Chicago, IL
2021 Happy Gallery - Beautiful Placenta (Group Exhibition), Chicago, IL
No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab - Written in the
Stars: a Larry Period Peice (Performance), Chicago, IL
Flat Earth Film Festival - snow/heaven, (screening), Seyðisörður, IS
2020 A.R.C. Gallery - Reality in Art (Group Exhibition), Chicago, IL
Sullivan Galleries - The Reach // The Real (Group Exhibition),
Chicago, IL
2019 Constellation and Links Hall - New Blood Performance Festival
(Performance), Chicago, IL
Prairie Chicago - Death Fantasy (Performance, Sound Design),
Chicago, IL
2018 Experimental Sound Studio - Waveforms, Spring 2018 (Sound Instalation),
Chicago, IL
Berlin Nightclub - ROSEBUD;!;(777);!;!;!;!,, (Video Installation),
Chicago, IL
2017 The LeRoy Neiman Center - Speculative Objects (Group Exhibition), Chicago, IL
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023 Summer Workshop Scholarship, Papermaking, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC
2021 — 2022 Curator/Artist-in-Residence, Happy Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Official Selection Flat Earth Film Festival, Herðubíó, Iceland