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 ChicagoChicago, IL

2018 Video Installation,  ROSEBUD;!;(777);!;!;!;!,, (), Berlin Nightclub — Chicago, IL

Sound Installation, Waveforms 2018, Experimental Sound StudioChicago, 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