Connie Noyes is a multidisciplinary artist born in Washington DC. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MA in Psychology and Art Therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California. She views her work and her life as one in the same. Noyes’ multi-layered, sculptural paintings, shown at Chicago Art Source, both reveal and mask what is beneath the surface. Through the use of materials considered of no value in parallel with transformative processes, she examines social constructs and assigned values of idealized beauty. The question her work provokes is: what constitutes beauty and worth?
In 2019, Noyes was awarded a DCASE Individual Artist Grant in professional development to attend two program-based residencies to further research in grief and mourning. In April she worked at Arteles, Finland with Margi Brown Ash, PhD. In October she will attend CAMP in the French Pyrenees to work with Laure Prouvost in video and installation. Noyes was artist-in-residence for the Doing/Thinking residency at Wedge Projects, Chicago with curator Peter Fleps in February and March.
In 2018 she was a recipient of a DCASE Individual Artist Grant for New Work which supported a solo exhibition at Cultivator, “silence is ______. beep. beep. beep.” and Untied|United a collaborative interactive visual art and sound installation with sound artist Beth Bradfish on Governors Island, NYC. Noyes also participated in the TransArt summer program in Berlin, Germany in 2016. She was a Center Program participant at the Hyde Park Art Center and a resident artist from 2017-2018. Other residencies include: ChaNorth, New York; the Emaar International Art Symposium, Dubai, and Thupelo International Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa;
Noyes' work is in the collection of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Ekstrom Library of Photographic Archives Special Collections, Louisville, Kentucky; and the Greenville County Museum, South Carolina. Her project, Under the Freeway, was chosen as a featured project for Chicago Artists Month 2015 – The City as Studio. She is currently working with the Chicago Park District and Chicago Sculpture International in Washington Park on an interactive community engagement project projected to launch in fall of 2019.