Portrait © Kahn & Selesnick (2016)

Noah S. Thompson is a New England-based image maker and storyteller raised between Oregon and New Mexico. Their practice involves investigating the markers, meanings, and mythologies humans give to the natural world. They see these artifacts as portals and use photography to draw connections between them and moments of curiosity. These inquiries are motivated by a sensation of wonder, transforming the taken-for-granted natural world through photography and other media to invite others to reflect, remember, and imagine. Their work is thus often quiet, even ghostly, blending the organic and human-made, the unknown and unknowable, calling for consideration regarding the ways in which we interact with and understand our surroundings.

Noah received their dual BA in English and Art & Art History from Dickinson College before pursuing a career in museum education. Noah is currently an MFA Studio Art candidate at the University of Connecticut. They have exhibited in a variety of venues including the Mattatuck Museum of Art & History, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, birds + Richard Gallery Berlin, and the Da Vinci Art Alliance of Philadelphia. Their work is in the collections of Dickinson College and the MINI Museum of Philadelphia. Noah is also a recent recipient of the Ford/Knauth Fellowship for LGBTQIA+ Artists at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Open your mind, be brave, and be kind.
noahsterlingthompson@gmail.com
Instagram: @noahsthompson