Their work attempts to reckon with what is too big to hold. Their practice – spanning video, installation, cartography, and sculpture – operates at the edge between earth (planetary and climatic forces) and world (systems built to apprehend them: science, magic, capital, myth). They are drawn to objects of study that are assemblages and can be followed and broken apart and reassembled differently, showing how we might be broken apart and put back together differently too.
Shaped by Japanese and Jewish diasporic inheritances, their work traces matter as it shapeshifts and passes through many hands: platinum moving through formal and informal channels, exposing unstable dynamics of extraction, ownership, and legitimacy; toxic rivers leaching volatile compounds alongside resurgent practices of ritual and healing; rice chewed and fermented with their mother in a practice resembling kuchikamizake, transmitting inheritance across lapses of memory and geographic displacement.
Throughout, Noa attends to how people negotiate, refuse, and rework the systems they already inhabit, and to the strange, mutated, and impure lineages we inherit. Their practice embraces a world that is contaminated, mixed, and altered — a condition from which relation and repair might still emerge.
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Education
2022 - 2026
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019
2015 - 2017
Selected Exhibitions
2026
2025
2024
2022
2019
2022 - 2026
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019
2015 - 2017
Selected Exhibitions
2026
2025
2024
2022
2019
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Fine Arts and Master of Landscape Architecture
Certificate in College and University Teaching
Certificate in Experimental Ethnography
Brown University
Bachelor of Arts in Urban Design (Independent Concentration)
Magna Cum Laude with Honors
Rhode Island School of Design
Studies in Architecture and Graphic Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Candidate for Bachelors of Science in Architecture and Biological Engineering
Under Scores
UPenn MFA Thesis Exhibition
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
May 1 - 31, Curated by Emily Zimmerman
NovumGroup Show, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
May 1 - 31, Curated by Emily Zimmerman
Cross TalkGroup Show, Nguyen Wahed, New York, NY
May 14 - 30, Hosted by Do Tuong Linh
Slow, Blunt, Painful, and Incredibly Inefficient
Group Show, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
January 23 - February 11, Curated by David Hartt
Spectral Feel
Juried Group Show, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
September 28 - October 26
これは庭なのか (is this a garden?)
Solo Show, Baison Tea House, Kobe, Japan
SaldoExhibition in Forest with Eefje Stenfert at Tuo Tuo, Joutsa, Finland
Organic Primitives
Group Exhibition, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Otherwise Unsaid
Group Show, Granoff Center for the Arts, Providence, RI
[full CV available on request] Available for freelance projects in design, concept development, mapping, website development, editing, 3D modeling, rendering, etc.
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