ALEXANDER NOVAK
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2020
Focus: Curatorial Studies & Art + Technology
Public Presentations
2024 Performance Lecture, Thimble’s Accent, No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential
Unspace Lab — Chicago, IL
Performance Lecture, Train of the World: the First Ever Movie, No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab — Chicago, IL
2022 Guest Lecture, Full Body Drawing: disability and mark making tools, Early
College Program Summer Institute: SAIC — Chicago, IL
Digital Educational Program, The Sonic Meditations of Pauline Oliveros, Arts of Life and Circle Contemporary — Chicago, IL
Exhibition History
2022 Curatorial Project, Hopeless Dream of Being, Happy Gallery — Chicago, IL
Live Sonic Performance, American Fashionism, Intersect Art-Space at Mana Contemporary — Chicago, IL
2021 Group Exhibition, Beautiful Placenta, Happy Gallery — Chicago, IL
Film Screening, snow/heaven (official selection), Flat Earth Film Festival — Seyðisörður, IS
Performance, Written in the Stars: a Larry Period Piece, No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab — Chicago, IL
2020 Group Exhibition, Reality in Art, A.R.C. Gallery — Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, The Reach\\The Real (SAIC BFA Thesis Show) Sullivan Galleries Chicago, IL
2019 Multi-Media New Blood Performance Festival, Constellation and Links Hall —
Chicago, IL
Performance, Sound Design, Death Fantasy, Prairie Chicago — Chicago, IL
2018 Video Installation, ROSEBUD;!;(777);!;!;!;!,, (), Berlin Nightclub — Chicago, IL
Sound Installation, Waveforms 2018, Experimental Sound Studio — Chicago, IL
2017 Group Exhibition, Speculative Objects, The LeRoy Neiman Center — Chicago, IL
Related Professional Experience
Programs and Access Associate (Contract)
Museum of Craft and Design | San Francisco, CA | Jul — Dec 2023
Museum Facilitator (Contract)
Exploratorium | San Francisco, CA | Nov 2022 — Mar 2023
Public Art Fabricator (Contract)
Gizmo Art Production | San Francisco, CA | Jun 2022 — Dec 2022
Gallery Coordinator and Curator-in-Residence (Fellowship)
Happy Gallery Chicago | Chicago, IL | Oct 2021 — May 2022
Sculpture Studio Assistant (Part-time)
Mindy Rose Schwartz | Chicago, IL | Mar 2021 — May 2022
Direct Support Professional (Part-time)
Arts of Life | Chicago, IL | Jul 2018 — May 2019; Jan 2022 — May 2022
Art Instructor (Part-time)
Magical Minds Studio | Oak Park, IL | Jul 2020 — Jun 2021
Editorial Apprentice, Video and Motion Graphics (Internship)
The Colonie | Chicago, IL | May 2019 — Aug 2019
Fashion Assistant (Internship)
Rachael Wang | New York, NY | May 2017 — Aug 2017
Gallery Assistant (Internship)
Dayton Visual Arts Center | Dayton, OH | Jan 2016 — Aug 2016