Anne Novado is an artist and gallery owner who obtained her MFA in Painting in 2004, and a BFA in Illustration in 1990, both from Syracuse University. Her graduate program led her to study under professors Michael Sickler, Steven Zaima, Sharon Gold, Jerome Witkin, and studio critiques with Lawrence Weiner, Peter Plagens, Alexis Smith and Michael Fried. In addition to her studio work, she previously taught art and design courses at Syracuse University, Cazenovia College and Onondaga Community College. She curated exhibitions for Limestone Gallery in Fayetteville, NY, where she exhibited numerous artists including painter and Williamsburg Oil Company founder Carl Plansky, painter Donalee Peden-Wesley, sculptor Stefanie Rocknack and multi-media artist Jim Ridlon.

Carving out studio time to balance out her gallery ownership, Novado’s art has taken a non-linear path from previous work, where she has embraced creating non-traditional art based on cultural commentary in addition to continuing her layered mixed media abstract paintings and her biomorphic graphite drawings on vellum.

Recent exhibition history includes: solo shows at: The Theroux Gallery at Franklin Pierce University, Drawing Rooms (Jersey City), Finger Lakes Community College, Exhibit A Gallery, New England College Art Gallery, Houghton Art Gallery, Fenton Art Gallery at Onondaga Community College, and group exhibitions include: Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Everson Museum of Art’s Biennial “The Object and Beyond”, and Iceland’s Gallery Svartaloft “Light Night” festival exhibition.