About
Noah Becker is an American and Canadian artist and jazz saxophonist who has been based in New York City for the past twenty years. His paintings have been exhibited at art institutions worldwide, including the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. Aside from his visual art production, Becker publishes Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, an art journal featuring writings by art critics, such as Donald Kuspit, Anthony Haden-Guest and Phoebe Hoban. The writings of Becker have also appeared in Art in America, Interview Magazine, Canadian Art, Huffington Post and Artvoices.
Noah Becker in his studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Selected One-Person & Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
Noah Becker: Recent Work (solo exhibition), Inkubator Gallery at Sutnara, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2020
Noah Becker: Visions of Uncanny Valley (solo exhibition), Filo Sofi Arts, New York, NY
2018
Supper Club (artist group) presented by Fazakas Gallery, Papier 2018 Art Fair, Montreal, Quebec
2017
Toronto Art Fair, Back Gallery Project Booth, Toronto
2016
Noah Becker and Erik Volet, Trounce Alley Gallery, Victoria BC
2016
Fun Drugs, Amy Li Projects, New York, NY
2015
New Paintings, Rockland Center for the Arts, New York
2014
Solo Exhibition, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver BC
2013
Solo Exhibition, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2012
No Age (two-person exhibition with David Goodman), Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Noah Becker and Alex McLeod, Angell Gallery, Toronto
2008
Recent Paintings, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver
2007
Recent Work, Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC
2005
Paintings From Behind My Eyes, Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC
1999
Recent Work, Dart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998
The Contemporary Portrait, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Forbidden Boundaries, curated by Gabrielle Aruta and Moises Salazar, Filo Sofi Arts, Marfa, TX
2021
The Nude, curated by Donald Kuspit, Georges Berges Gallery, New York, NY
2021
10 Years of Launch F18, Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Virgil Catherine Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021
Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY
2020
Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art, curated by Donald Kuspit, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC
2017
Spring Break Art Fair, curated by Chris Bors, New York, NY
2016
Art Toronto, Back Gallery Project, Toronto
2016
Galleri s.e, Group Show, Bergen, Norway
2016
Group Show, Adrien Brody, Tom Jarmusch, Alfredo Martinez, New York, NY
2016
Group Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Something, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH
2014
Summer Exhibition, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY
2013
Salon des Refusés, curated by Michael Anderson, Artion Galleries, New York, NY
2013
STRANGER: An Exhibition of Self-Portraits, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2013
The Roving Eye: Aura & the Contemporary Portrait, curated by Dick Goody,
featuring Noah Becker, Michael Borremans and David Shrigley, Oakland University Art Gallery, Detroit, IL
2013
100 Little Deaths, curated by Tom Sanford, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2013
SCOPE New York Art Fair, Whitehot Presents, New York, NY
2013
NADA New York Art Fair, AS|Artist’s Studios, New York, NY
2013
Changing the World through Art, Benefit Exhibition, The Time In Children’s Art Initiative, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York , NY
2013
AS|Artist’s Studios Pop-up, curated by Jill Conner, New York, NY
2013
Commonalities, NOoSPHERE Arts, New York, NY
2013
Some Girls, Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Mie Portraits, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
2013
America Eats Youth, Untitled Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Afterlife, curated by Jim D’Amato, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Unseen, curated by Ada Leibowitz, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2010
Go Figure, curated by Todd Rosenbaum, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Catch of the Year 2, Dienstgebäude, Zurich
2010
Six Degrees of Separation: A New Generation of Canadian Artists, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Plank Road, Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY
2010
Hunt and Chase, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and James Salomon, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY
2009
RBC Painting Competition, top 10 finalist The Power Plant, Toronto
2008
How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2007
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2007
SCOPE New York Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, New York, NY
2005
New Vancouver Artists, State Projects and Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Exhibitions Curated by Noah Becker
2016
Beggar’s Banquet, Featuring Adrien Brody and Noah Becker, New York, NY
2016
Something, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Some Girls, Launch F18, New York, NY
2011
Nic Rad, Artlandia, Rifflandia Music Festival, Victoria
2010
Artlandia – Lee Ranaldo, Bobby Grossman, Paul Zone, Rifflandia Music Festival, Victoria
2010
Six Degrees of Separation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Documentaries
Directed by Noah Becker
2012
New York is Now
The Secret History of Contemporary Art (forthcoming)
Selected Writings
2013
ARTVOICES Magazine, Frank Stella interview cover story
ARTVOICES Magazine, Jazz-Minh Moore interview
ARTVOICES Magazine, Mie Iwatsuki Interview
Canadian Art Magazine, “Luanne Martineau, Handmade”
Canadian Art Magazine, “Tim Gardner”
Canadian Art Magazine, “Attila Richard Lukacs”
The Saratoga Collection catalog, curated by Terrence Sanders, introduction
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Interview with Nir Hod
2011
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, “Noah Becker in Conversation with Rein Wolfs”
2010
Art in America, “Inka Essenhigh Plots the Undoing of the Figure,” February 2010
Art in America, “Matthew Weinstein Disc of Life,” July 2010
Huffington Post, “Dan Colen Revisited,” September 2010
Whitehot Magazine, “New York Painter Adam Krueger Talks Tradition with Noah Becker,” January 2010
2009
Art in America, “Spencer Tunick Is Out in the Open,” June 8, 2009
Art in America, “Inka Essenhigh Plots the Undoing of the Figure,” June 2009
Interview Magazine, Richard Phillips on Being a Man, April 11, 2009
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Boo Saville and Hannah Watson, January 2009
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Deitch Projects director Andrea Cashman, January 2009
2008
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Noah Becker Interviews Brad Phillips, December 2008
2007
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Trevor Guthrie Interview, December 2007
Selected Press
The Brooklyn Rail, “Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art,” by Robert R. Shane
AS|Magazine, Interview with Noah Becker about his work in Spring Break Art Fair, New York, by Barry Kostrinsky
NY Arts Magazine, “Interview with Noah Becker”
10 Words One Shot, “Noah Becker,” by 10 Words and One Shot
Artinfo.com, “In Conversation with Noah Becker,” by Homa Nasab
Becky Hunter Blog, “30 Days of Drawing: Interview with Noah Becker”
Curbs and Stoops, Noah Becker and Alex McLeod at Angell Gallery, by Jeffery Pena
FrancoTV.com, “Noah Becker’s Some Girls at Launch F18,” a video short edited by James Franco
Gypsé Eyes, Noah Becker Interview by Sam Trioli
Interview Magazine, “It Ain’t Pretty: Art in the Hamptons,” by Ana Finel Honigman
Residencies
2022
Artist in residence, Inkubator Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, University of West Bohemia, Sutnarka, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Noah Becker &
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