Noah Spivak
2026年十月驻地艺术家
Noah Spivak
No. 208 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist
2026 October Resident Artist
Noah Spivak
关于艺术家 About the Artist

(加拿大 Canada)
www.noahspivak.com
Spivak studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, NYC, and received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (2015). After graduation, he migrated to Naarm/Melbourne to develop his practice and begin a professional career in the Arts. His more notable exhibitions include Leftovers of a Ghost at Counihan Gallery (Melbourne, 2022) programmed into National Science Week 2022; A Study of the Boy with Wings at Phoenix Gallery (Athens, 2023); and most recently, Crossing a Shoreless Sea (Ho Chi Minh, 2025), which marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Spivak was awarded the 2021 Emerging Artist Award presented by FortyFive Downstairs and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards, including the 2024 Incinerator Art Award (VIC) and the 2026 Wyndham Art Prize (VIC). He was featured as VOGUE Living’s ‘Fresh Take’, being named as “one of the most promising young Australian artists” of 2022. Spivak has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Spivak’s work engages in an ongoing dialogue with the alchemical qualities of materials, allowing their innate properties to guide and shape the outcome. This collaboration with matter results in process-driven artworks that emphasise transformation, decay, and the unseen forces in the material world. He is particularly interested in the invisible – energies, connections, identities – and how they might be made tangible through artistic process. His studio becomes a site of curiosity and inquiry, where accidents are welcomed, and intuition is trusted. Through this exploration, his work examines the porous boundaries between the self and the environment. Spivak’s practice is a meditation on presence, memory, and the act of noticing, while inviting the viewer into a space where perception is questioned.

for narcissus (my shores are yours)
纸杯、丙烯颜料、墨水 Paper cups, acrylic, ink
1010cm x 290cm x 11cm
2024

shadow of an Other
乌克兰葵花籽,俄罗斯国旗 Ukrainian sunflower seeds, russian flag
120cm x 90cm
2023

vanish into void
手工镀银玻璃、珐琅颜料、化学处理黄铜、毛毡
Hand-silvered glass, enamel pigment, chemically treated brass, felt
78cm x 78cm
2023

for safe passage (chevron II)
定制穿孔黄铜,尼龙丝 Custom-perforated brass, nylon silk
60cm x 60cm
2026

Your Hands Can’t Show Me Where Home Is
未处理的感光纸,伊尔福德定影液,钢
Untreated photographic paper, Ilford fixer, steel
200cm x 50cm
2019

we should sit but cannot sit still (waverley IV)
手工银化玻璃、珐琅颜料、黑氧化物、钢
Hand-silvered glass, enamel pigment, black oxide, steel
Ø90cm
2022

Chasing Daylight
钢、玻璃、颜料 Steel, glass, pigment
尺寸可变 Dimensions variable
2021

re: collection (too far to grasp, too near to hold)
Cyanotype on cotton, potassium alum, archival family photo (circa. 1928)
21cm x 30cm
2026