BIO
Noa Geras is an artist who explores the relationship between the mind, nature and technology. In her works and life, she contemplates identity and forms of violence, especially towards minorities and animals, while embedding them within historical narratives and her own personal history.
She was born in 1996 in Jerusalem and grew up in Zagreb, Croatia. She studied Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy and holds an MA in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, and an MA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. During her studies she was awarded the 1st prize at The International Competition of 20th Miniatures, Academic Council Award to the most successful graduates and a Rector’s Award.
She has received a full grant from ERSTE Foundation to attend The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and created public sculptures during the Svijetle pruge residency in Croatia. Her seven-metre Aurochs sculpture was exhibited at the 13th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, at the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Education:
2020-2021 MA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London (Distinction)
2018-2019 MA Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (Distinction)
2016-2019 BA Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
2015-2016 Painting and Sculpture at the Academia di Belle Arti in Venice (Italy), Erasmus exchange student programme
2014-2015 Animated Film and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
2011-2014 Graphic Arts and Printmaking, School of Applied Arts and Design, Zagreb
Awards:
2023 - scholarship grant from The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg
- awarded a membership for the Croatian Association of Fine Artists
2022 - full grant ERSTE Foundation and tranzit.org for The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
2018-2019 - Academic Council Award to the most successful graduates, year 2018/2019, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
2017-2018 - 1st. prize at The International Competition of the 20th Miniatures, Art Association of Zaprešić
2017-2018 - Rector's Award, for great scientific and artistic group work in the academic year 2017/2018, University of Zagreb
Selected solo exhibitions:
2024 - Beasts, performance and exhibition in Brick 15, Vienna
- Beasts, performacne in MM Centre, Zagreb
2023 - Beasts, Gallery SC, Zagreb
- Beasts, Gallery Kazamat, Croatian Association of Artists, Osijek (HDLU Osijek)
2022 - Looking Bach: 300 years since the Well-Tuned Keyboard, Vache Baroque, Conway Hall, London
2021 - Golem, Croatian National Theatre Varaždin
2020 - Go West, Gallery Antun Augustinčić and Gallery Galić
2019 - Go West, Gallery f8, Zagreb
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 - Collective Beauty, performance and workshop by She She Pop, Berlin Summer University of the Arts, Berlin
- The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, scholarship grant, exhibition and performance organised by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Exploring the Earth as Lover: New Approaches to Environmental Art, Theory & Activism, Salzburg
- Invisible Recursion, M P Birla Millenium Art Gallery, Curated by TRA Collective and Jiujian Zeng, London
2022 - The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts exhibition, full grant ERSTE Foundation and tranzit.org, class of Anna Daučiková, Fragility and Resilience: Queering Strategies Revisited, Austria
2021 - Shivers, Computational Arts Show, Goldsmiths, University of London
2020 - Borders, 2. Samoborski salon, Gallery Prica, Samobor
2019 - The 4 Memorials of Nenad Fabijanić, The Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2018 - The 13th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2018 - Necropolis Project, Maxim Gorki Theater, full grant, History Festival War or Peace, Berlin
2017 - The International Exhibition of 20th Miniatures, Art Association of Zaprešić, in Novi Dvori, Zaprešić, Croatia and Pro3or Gallery, Belgrade
Residencies:
2023
- Collective Beauty, workshop by She She Pop, held at Berlin Summer University of the Arts, Berlin
- The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, scholarship grant, class of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Exploring the Earth as Lover: New Approaches to Environmental Art, Theory & Activism, Salzburg
-Artist in residence at Gallery Kazamat, Croatian Association of Artists, Osijek (HDLU Osijek), Croatia, fully funded
2022 - Artist in residence at Vache Baroque, London
2022 - The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, full grant ERSTE Foundation and tranzit.org, class of Anna Daučiková, Fragility and Resilience: Queering Strategies Revisited, Salzburg
2022 - ‘Writing from Art: Poetry Inspired by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art’, short course, Goldsmiths, University of London
2019-2020 - Erasmus Student Practice, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2019 - Nest - Sculpture residency Svijetle pruge, public sculpture project, full grant, Bjelovar
2017 - Wood Aurox - Sculpture residency Svijetle pruge, full grant, public sculpture project, Bjelovar
Volunteering:
2017-2019 - painting workshops with people with special needs, Orlovac Rehabilitation Centre, Zagreb
2016 - No Borders, painting workshops with people seeking asylum in Croatia, Gallery DK, Zagreb