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)   

Exhibitions

• 2025    (upcoming group show) Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS 
• 2025    (upcoming solo show) Field Projects, New York, NY*
• 2024    Beginner’s Mind, Friends Artspace, Arlington, VA
• 2024    Dewdrops in the Garden, Hexum, Montpelier, VT
• 2024    ZonaMaco, The CAMP Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico*
• 2023    Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, Jewish Museum, Milw., WI   
• 2023    Lineage, Field Projects, New York, NY
• 2023    Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, 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    Unbellowed, SpringBreak, New York, NY *
• 2021    I become Other, SpringBreak, New York, NY *
• 2021    A gate // A veil // A vessel, Field Projects, New York, NY
• 2021    A gate // A veil // A vessel, Home Gallery, New York, NY
• 2020    Instagram's Shadow, 42 Social Club, Lyme CT
• 2020    Hiding in Plain Sight, Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT *
• 2018    Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2018    Her/Tongue, White Couch, Queens, NY *
• 2017    Grotto Capital, EXILE, Berlin, Germany
• 2017    New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
• 2017    The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Bible, New York, NY *
• 2017    Betwixt & Between, Muncie Makes Lab, Muncie, IN
• 2016    New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
• 2016    NO, SAMUEL, Chicago, IL *
• 2015    The Tenets of Crowning, The American Institute for American Art, Portland, ME *
• 2015    Crowning, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA *
• 2015    Down to Earth/Terre à Terre/Van Nature, Hanger H18, Brussels, Belgium    
• 2015    DRIP DROP DRAG, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD *
• 2014    Hard to Please, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
• 2014    Shadowland, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
• 2014    Slow, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL *
• 2014    Hard/Soft, MINT, Columbus, OH *
• 2012    Wild Things. I think I love you, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL *
• 2012    Wow House, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
• 2012    Alumni Sculpture Exhibition, Holtzman Art Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD
• 2011    Paper Chasers, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• 2011    CART, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• 2011    Instruction Set, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
• 2010    Meeting in the Margins, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
• 2010    End of Daze, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
• 2009    Functionless Form, Functional Art, School 33, Baltimore, MD
• 2009    Knit Wit, Nudashank Galley, Baltimore, MD                                                 

*solo/two person shows

Performances

• 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

• 2025    Vermont Studio Center
• 2025    Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
• 2024    Monson Arts, Monson, ME
• 2023    Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE
• 2023    The Lighthouse Works, Fisher Island, NY
• 2022    Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
• 2022    Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
• 2022    Haystack, Deer Isle, ME
• 2016    Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
• 2015    Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprenticeship Program, Philadelphia, PA
• 2014    ACRE, Steuben, WI
• 2011    ACRE, Steuben, W                      

Grants/Awards

• 2025             The Trout Lily Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
• 2024             Finialist, Erarta Foundation Prize
• 2022             Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
• 2015             Silverstein Travel Grant
• 2014             Lawrence Shprintz Fine Arts Merit Scholarship
• 2013-2015    Penn Design Merit Scholarship Award

Press/Publications

• 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/Talks

• 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