EDUCATION
2015 University of Pennsylvania Masters of Fine Arts
2011 School of Art Institute of Chicago Post-baccalaureate in Painting
2005 Towson University BA in Art History (Magna cum Laude)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Art Educator // River Arts, Morrisville, VT // December 2021-Present
LowRes MFA Advisor // Maine College of Art, Portland, ME // August 2019-May 2020
Lecturer // School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL June 2012- December 2016
Faculty Instructor // University of Pennsylvania, Phila., PA // Fall 2014- Spring 2015
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dewdrops in the Garden, Hexum, Montpelier, VT
(upcoming) Friends Artspace, Arlington, VA
(upcoming) The Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY
2023 Lineage, Field Projects, New York, NY
Secret Show, SpringBreak, New York, NY
Counting the Seconds Between Lightning and Thunder, Wassaic, NY
Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, Jewish Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Freaks of Nature, SpringBreak, New York, NY
2022 Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT
Beyond Nuclear Family, Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague, Czech Republic
Beyond Nuclear Family, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2021 Unbellowed, SpringBreak, New York, NY *
I become Other, SpringBreak, New York, NY *
A veil // a gate // a vessel, Field Projects, New York, NY
A veil // a gate // a vessel, Home Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Instagram's Shadow, 42 Social Club, Lyme, CT
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, LA, CA
Her/Tongue, White Couch, Queens, NY *
2017 Grotto Capital, EXILE, Berlin, Germany
New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Bible, New York, NY *
Betwixt & Between, Muncie Makes Lab, Muncie, IN
2016 New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, MOMA PS1, LIC, NY
NO, SAMUEL, Chicago, IL *
2015 The Tenets of Crowning, The American Institute for American Art, Portland, ME *
Crowning, Vox Populi – Fourth Wall, Philadelphia, PA *
Down to Earth/Terre à Terre/Van Nature, Hanger H18, Brussels, Belgium
DRIP DROP DRAG, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD *2014
Hard to Please, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Slow, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL *
Hard/Soft, MINT, Columbus, OH *
2012 Wild Things. I think I love you, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL *
Wow House, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
Alumni Sculpture Exhibition, Holtzman Art Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD
2011 Paper Chasers, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD
CART, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Instruction Set, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2010 Meeting in the Margins, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
End of Daze, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Functionless Form, Functional Art, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Knit Wit, Nudashank Gallery, 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
White Lies, Special Collections at The Whitney, New York City, NY, 2020
Cassandra Editions 1-15, Library and Archives at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2020
1994, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2012
GRANTS/AWARD
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.
http://www.midnightsociety.org/instagram
Mary Gow. “Chiara No enjoys her demons.” The Rutland Herald. Saturday, August 15, 2020. pg. D1.
2017 MU/TH/UR 6000, Cassandra Press at Printer Matter, New York, NY
S. Nicole Lane, “Chiara No: On Being a Metaller and What it Means to “Other.” Slutist.
December 4, 2017. http://slutist.com/chiara-no-on-being-a-metaller-and-what-it-means -to-other/
S. Nicole Lane, “Social Media and the Impact on Practice, Representation, and the Gallery.” Exhibitions on the Cusp. January 17, 2018.
http://exhibitionsonthecusp.com/stories/social-media-impact-practice-representation-gallery/
2016 Lisa Haller Bagesen, The Revolution Will Be Mothernized! Part I (3AM Maternal), May 15, 2016 https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/the-revolution-will-be-mothernized-part-i-3am-maternal/
LECTURES/TALKS
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Parson School of Design, NY, NY
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
Visiting Artist Lecture, Gender Pirate, 20th and 21st Century Fashion in Art History, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Lecture, Gender Pirate, Performance and Spectacle,SAIC, Chicago, IL
2015 Crowning, Thesis Presentation, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Lighting Lecture 2, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Lighting Lecture 1, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
RESIDENCIES
2023 Bemis Art Center
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2022 Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
Haystack, Deer Isle, ME
2016 Ox-Bow Arts Faculty Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2015 Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprenticeship Program, Philadelphia, PA
2014 ACRE, Steuben, WI2011 ACRE, Steuben, WI