Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Bio
Chiara No has shown at ZonaMaco, Mexico City; SpringBreak NYC; The Jewish Museum of Milkwukee, Field Projects; EXILE, Vienna, Austria and has participated in both the NYC and LA Printed Matter Art Book Fair. Her work has been featured on Hyperallergic and Bmore Art. No has been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Lighthouse Works, Wassaic Projects and Haystack School of Craft. In 2015, No received the Silverstein Travel Grant allowing her to travel to Berlin to interview women in the Metal scene. Cassandra Press published her short screenplay, MU/TH/UR 6000, an experimental genderless horror screenplay in 2017 which is currently sold at Printed Matter. Her work on paper is in the Whitney's Special Collection, the Walker Art Center Library and Archives and the Art Institute of Chicago's Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library. No currently lives and works in Johnson, Vermont.
EDUCATION
- 2015 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 2011 Post-baccalaureate in Painting, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2005 BA in Art History (Magna cum Laude)
SOLO // TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2026 Chiara No / Chenlu Hou, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
- 2025 (upcoming) We Know that We Know, Field Projects, New York, NY
- 2021 Unbellowed, Spring/Break Art Fair, curated by Kris Racaniello, New York, NY
- 2020 Hiding in Plain Sight, Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
- 2018 Her/Tongue, White Couch, Queens, NY
- 2017 Chiara No / Frank Castanie,The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Bible, New York, NY
- 2016 NO, SAMUEL, Chicago, IL
- 2015 Crowning, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
- 2015 The Tenets of Crowning, The American Institute for American Art, Portland, ME
- 2015 Chiara No / Nick Mayer, DRIP DROP DRAG, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures, Nerman MoMA, Overland Park, KS
- 2025 (upcoming ) Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
- 2024 Beginner’s Mind, Friends Artspace, Arlington, VA
- 2024 Ends Well, Mother-in-Laws, Germantown, NY
- 2024 Dewdrops in the Garden, Hexum, Montpelier, VT
- 2023 Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, Jewish Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- 2023 Lineage, Field Projects, New York, NY
- 2023 Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
- 2023 Freaks of Nature, SpringBreak, New York, NY
- 2022 Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT
- 2022 Beyond Nuclear Family, Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2022 Beyond Nuclear Family, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
- 2021 A veil // a gate // a vessel, Field Projects, New York, NY
- 2021 A veil // a gate // a vessel, Home Gallery, New York, NY
- 2020 Instagram's Shadow, 42 Social Club, Lyme, CT
- 2018 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LA, CA
- 2017 Grotto Capital, EXILE, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
- 2016 New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
- 2015 Down to Earth/Terre à Terre/Van Nature, Hanger H18, Brussels, Belgium
- 2014 Hard to Please, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
- 2014 Slow, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
- 2014 Hard/Soft, MINT, Columbus, OH
- 2012 Wild Things. I think I love you, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCE
- 2017 Election Therapy, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
- 2016 Boulevard Dreamers, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
- 2015 Ghost Light Revival, TransModern Fest, Baltimore, MD
COLLECTIONS
- Cassandra Editions 1-15, Library and Archives at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- White Lies, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
- 1994, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES // REWARDS
- 2025 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
- 2025 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
- 2025 Vermont Studio Center, Trout Lily Foundation Fellowship
- 2024 Monson Arts, Monson, ME
- 2024 Finialist, Erarta Foundation Prize
- 2023 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
- 2023 The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
- 2022 Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
- 2022 Haystack, Deer Isle, ME
- 2022 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
- 2022 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
- 2016 Ox-Bow Arts Faculty Residency, Saugatuck, MI
- 2015 Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprenticeship Program, Philadelphia, PA
- 2015 UPenn Silverstein Travel Grant
- 2014 ACRE, Steuben, WI
- 2014 Lawrence Shprintz Fine Arts Penn Design Merit Scholarship
- 2013-15 Penn Design Merit Scholarship Award
RESIDENCIES JURIED
- 2025 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Week 2025, Johnson, VT
- 2024 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Fall 2025 Residency, Omaha, NE
PRESS // PUBLICATION
- 2021 Hrag Vartanian, “With a Medieval Flair, SpringBreak Art Show Celebrates the Eccentric,” September 10, 2021. https://hyperallergic.com/676145/spring-break-art-show-celebrates-the-eccentric
- 2020 Jax Lahav, "Instagram's Shadow: The Story Of How Instagram censors artists, erases the LGBTQ community, and shames women’s bodies," May, 29, 2020. Online.
- 2017 MU/TH/UR 6000, Cassandra Press at Printer Matter, New York, NY, Print.
- 2017 S. Nicole Lane, “Chiara No: On Being a Metaller and What it Means to “Other.” Slutist. December 4, 2017. Online.
- 2017 S. Nicole Lane, “Social Media and the Impact on Practice, Representation, and the Gallery.” Exhibitions on the Cusp. January 17, 2018. Online.
- 2016 Lisa Haller Bagesen, The Revolution Will Be Mothernized! Part I (3AM Maternal), May 15, 2016. Online.
- 2011 My Memory is to your memory as your's is to mine., Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Print.
- 2011 1994 Fanzine, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Print.
- 2011 Lynnette Miranda, Chiara No, Make Space, December 11, 2011. Online.
- 2011 John Bohl & Jordan Bernier, Anthology of Baltimore Artists thru Screen Print, Limited Edition Artist Book - April 8, 2011. Print.
- 2010 Bret McBride, Furnished Room, City Paper, Jan. 6, 2010, p.46. Periodical.
LECTURES // PANELS
- 2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Parson School of Design, NY, NY
- 2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
- 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- 2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Vermont Studio Center
- 2016 Panel Discussion, A Brief History of Feminist Fashion for Lise Haller Baggesen’s HATORADE RETROGADE, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
- 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Gender Pirate, 20th and 21st Century Fashion, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Gender Pirate, Performance/Spectacle, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2015 Crowning, Thesis Presentation, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA