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