SaraNoa Mark

Through delicate drawings and carved ceramic reliefs, SaraNoa Mark’s practice investigates the traces left by time upon landscapes and within collective memory. Engaging with historical and architectural sources, from Seljuk buildings and Assyrian palace reliefs to Talmudic manuscripts, the artist weaves these influences together into artefact-like compositions that evoke both ancient ruins and imagined futuristic terrains. Working primarily with wet clay, Mark carves and scores surfaces, allowing the material to record gestures that mirror the slow accumulation of marks and the evolution of land across nature and human history. In this way, clay becomes both medium and archive, capturing the invisible rhythms of time while mapping the ever-evolving connection between earth and human presence.

Mark was born in 1991 in New York. They received a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015, and were an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023. Mark has received numerous awards, including the Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists (2024); the Artadia Award (2023); and a Fulbright Research Award (2019–2020). Residencies include Yaddo, New York (2025); The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut (2025); Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, New York (2023); and the Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Chicago (2019). Mark’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo presentations including Evaporated Hours at Dreamsong, Minneapolis (2025) and a solo booth with Goldfinch Gallery at NADA, New York (2025). Mark’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom will open at Huxley-Parlour in October 2026. Mark currently lives and works in New York.