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Bio

Chiara No graduated from Towson University in 2004 in Art History. Although she did not begin making visual art until nearly a decade later, her academic training—developing theses, interrogating sources, and tracing primary references—deeply shaped her approach to artmaking. In 2013, she entered the MFA program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she intentionally studied beyond her studio practice, taking anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and literature courses to expand her conceptual framework.

After graduating in 2015, financial constraints prevented Chiara from maintaining a studio for a few years, prompting her practice to shift toward intensive reading and writing. In 2016, she created the Instagram persona Tipper Gore. Through this account, she treated reading as sound bites, isolating excerpts to expose double speak. Inspired by the mythic figure Baubo, her images and videos featured her clothed or thinly veiled lower torso. By presenting a headless female body, she simultaneously self-objectified and produced a blank surface onto which viewers could project themselves.

In late 2019, Chiara moved to Vermont, motivated primarily by the desire to reestablish a studio practice. The years of sustained research she undertook—ranging from ancient mythology and Marxist historiography to modern philosophy, music history, Hindu lore, medieval esoterica, and Christian apocrypha—ultimately informed her current body of work and guiding thesis, Demons Are Other People.

Over the past three years, Chiara No has presented her work and research methodologies at Syracuse University, Maine College of Art & Design, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has held residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Lighthouse Works and was a Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is currently featured in a two-person exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and presented a solo exhibition at Field Projects in New York in October 2025.

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, What the Hands Remember to Hear, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 
• 2025    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

• 2026    (Upcoming) Praise Shadows, Boston, MA 
• 2025    Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures, Nerman MoMA, Overland Park, KS
• 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

• 2027    Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
• 2026    StoveWorks, Chattanooga, TN     
• 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

• 2026   Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 
• 2025   Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Week 2025, Johnson, VT
• 2024   Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Fall 2025 Residency, Omaha, NE

PRESS // PUBLICATION 

• 2026   Ebony, David, “Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence; Jennie Jieun Lee; Chenlu Hou and Chiara No; Martha Friedman, Mika Taga, and Alina Tenser.” Upstate Diary, March 3,2026, www.upstatediary.com/art-picks/2026/03.
• 2025   Kate Mothes, “Myth, Spirituality, and Storytelling Converge in Ceramics by Chenlu Hou and Chiara No,” Colossal, December 3, 2025. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/chiara-no-chenlu-hou-what-the-hands-remember-to-hear/
• 2025    Dodge, Alice, “Standout Vermont Artists to Keep an Eye on in 2026,” December 24, 2025, www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/visualart/standout-vermont-artists-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2026/     
• 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

• 2026    “Chiara No & Chenlu Hou,” Interview on [Sound and Vision Podcast]. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chenlu-hou-chiara-no/id1106453218?i=1000760433282], April 2024.
• 2026    Visiting Artist Lecture, Junior Sculpture at MICA, Baltimore, MD
• 2025    Artist Talk for We Know that We Know, Field Projects, New York, NY    
• 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