NOAH BECKER

Artist · Publisher · Jazz Saxophonist

Selected One-Person & Two-Person Exhibitions

2025 Noah Becker and Yool Kim, Gallery Merrick, Victoria, BC, Canada

2022 Noah Becker: Recent Work (solo exhibition), Inkubator Gallery at Sutnarka, 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, QC

2017 Toronto Art Fair, Back Gallery Project booth, Toronto, ON

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, ON

2008 Recent Paintings, Back Gallery Project, Vancouver, BC

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

2025 Group Exhibition, Kelly McKenna Gallery, New Jersey 

2024 At Face Value, Station Independent Projects, Toronto, ON

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, ON

2016 Galleri s.e, group exhibition, Bergen, Norway

2016 Group exhibition with Adrien Brody, Tom Jarmusch and Alfredo Martinez, New York, NY

2016 Group exhibition, 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, MI

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, Switzerland

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-ten finalist, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON

2008 How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

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, BC

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, BC

2010 Artlandia – Lee Ranaldo, Bobby Grossman, Paul Zone, Rifflandia Music Festival, Victoria, BC

2010 Six Degrees of Separation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

Books & Editorial Projects

2025 The Best Art in the World: 20 Years of Noah Becker’s Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, co-edited with Michael Maizels, Anthem Press, 386 pp.

2005–present Founder, publisher and editor, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

Documentaries Directed by Noah Becker

2012 New York Is Now

Forthcoming The Secret History of Contemporary Art (status to be confirmed)

Selected Writings

2013 ARTVOICES Magazine, Frank Stella interview (cover story)

2013 ARTVOICES Magazine, Jazz-Minh Moore interview

2013 ARTVOICES Magazine, Mie Iwatsuki interview

— Canadian Art, “Luanne Martineau, Handmade”

— Canadian Art, “Tim Gardner”

— Canadian Art, “Attila Richard Lukacs”

— The Saratoga Collection catalogue, 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

2010 Art in America, “Matthew Weinstein Disc of Life,” July 2010

2010 Huffington Post, “Dan Colen Revisited,” September 2010

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

2009 Art in America, “Inka Essenhigh Plots the Undoing of the Figure,” June 2009

2009 Interview Magazine, “Richard Phillips on Being a Man,” April 11, 2009

2009 Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Boo Saville and Hannah Watson, January 2009

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

2026 ArteFuse, “Noah Becker on 20 Years of Whitehot Magazine and the New Print Anthology,” April 27

2025 ArteFuse, “A Delicate Tension: Yool Kim and Noah Becker in Dialogue at Gallery Merrick, Canada,” May 8

2024 All About Jazz, review of Mode for Noah, by Jack Bowers, March 12

— The Brooklyn Rail, “Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art,” by Robert R. Shane

— AS|Magazine, interview with Noah Becker about Spring Break Art Fair, by Barry Kostrinsky

— NY Arts Magazine, “Interview with Noah Becker”

— 10 Words One Shot, “Noah Becker”

— 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,” 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

Music & Recordings

2023 Mode for Noah, Entour Records; seven original jazz compositions. Alto saxophone: Noah Becker; Rhodes: Brent Jarvis; bass: Kosma Busheikin; drums: Graham Villette.

Residencies/Press Trips 

2024/25/26 Guest of Dakis Joannou, Athens and Hydra, Greece

2022 Artist in residence, Inkubator Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, University of West Bohemia, Sutnarka, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Speaking Engagements

2026 Guest Speaker, main stage, Art Matters with host Kendell Geers, The Merode, Brussels

Selected Collections

The Museum of the City of New York acquisition of a portrait depicting Becker by photographer Sally Davies.

Many international and private collections including:

Ben Stiller

Mike Meyers

Victoria Art Gallery

University of Victoria