SaraNoa Mark 
 NADA NY - Booth A-215

Goldfinch’s NADA NY booth features a solo presentation of sculptures by SaraNoa Mark , a NYC-based artist who painstakingly inscribes repetitive marks and complex patterns into materials such as clay, paper, concrete, sand and glass, with the works’ final forms recalling fossils, archaeological fragments, cuneal writing, and ancient monuments. Mark explains, “I aim to enter into conversation with carved languages—from cuneiform tablets to sidewalk graffiti—that document an eternal impulse to score picture into place . . . At the core of my project is a concern with how humans transform our physical environments (and) the role of public monuments in our collective cultural imagination.”

Read an April 30, 2025 interview with SaraNoa Mark in Bomb magazine, conducted by Louis Bury:, by clicking the Documents menu below.

Artist's Bio

SaraNoa Mark (b. NY, NY) pursues a drawing practice that investigates traces left by time, as they exist in landscapes and in collective memory. SaraNoa's work has been supported by a Fulbright research fellowship in Turkey. SaraNoa has received grants from Artadia, the Harpo Foundation, U.S. Embassy Mission Grants Program in Turkey, Luminarts Cultural Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, John Anson Kittredge Fund, Illinois Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artists Program (DCASE), West Collection, Chicago Artists Coalition, and a Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Travel Scholarship. SaraNoa has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Chicago Artists Coalition, Montello Foundation, Wave Hill, Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center, Lois and Charles X. Carlson Painting Residency, Sedona Summer Colony, and the Bronx River Art Center. In 2025 SaraNoa will be an artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and Dieu Donné. SaraNoa co-directed the 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago from 2017-2023. Recent exhibitions of their work have taken place at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Daniel Faira Gallery, Toronto, CA; The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, ME; CA; Davis & Langdale, NY; Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL; 5533, Istanbul, among others. SaraNoa was named a Newcity magazine Breakout Artist in 2021. Mark’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, ARTNEWS, ArtAsiaPacific, and more.

Website: SaraNoaMark.com
Instagram: @saran0a