Novak’s practice moves between documentary and staged photography, often blurring the line between personal narrative and collective experience. They explore how bodies perform identity — through gestures, scars, masks, and surfaces that both reveal and conceal. The artists images dwell in moments of tension, where desire is never simple, where intimacy and resistance intertwine, and where the queer body becomes both fragile and defiant.
In 2022, Novak completed a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden and studied Fine Arts at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw between 2013 – 2015. They also have a background in performing arts, film acting, art history, film studies, philosophy and studied photography at Valand Art Academy (HFF) in Gothenburg.
Throughout the years, Novak participated in Artist in Residence programs and art projects with Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Moderna Museet, Pals Performance Art Links, Supermarket Art Fair, Färgfabriken in Stockholm, Gallery Thomassen in Gothenburg and Bildmuseet in Umeå, ZVUN Gallery in Nachod.
In 2022 Novak was awarded the Assistant Grant with artist Åsa Cederqvist and trawel grant for AIR in North Macedonia (2020 and 2022) from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. In 2020 They got grant from e Swedish Royal Academy of Arts (Konstakademin).