Ilya Noé is a former gymnast turned visual/performance artist-researcher, ovicen backstrap weaver, relentless walker (and talker), erratic breather, (over)eager collaborator, and fan of site-particular interventions, interspecies entanglements, mutualistic processes, tao(ist dia)lectics, slow research, messy theory, intellectual promiscuity, epistemological uncertainty, divergent pathways, open-ended storytellings, loose ends, ellipses…
Born and mostly assembled in Mexico City, she moved to New York City to study painting and sculpture at the School of Visual Arts when she was still a teen, and has since expanded her operations and zone of propagation by sporadically popping up on all sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific to trace lines and build spaces by hand, on foot, and in co-creation with both humans and non-humans alike. At some point she found herself back in the US and decided to stay put for a while to pursue an MFA in Studio Art and PhD (ABD) in Performance Studies at the University of California, Davis. She now lives, loves, involves, and revolves mostly around Berlin.
Ilya’s work was recently showcased at Sala 10 of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (México). She presented her work at the 12th Biennale of Shanghai, represented her country in Venice’s OPEN2000, became a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate and was recipient of one of Mexico’s National Young Art Awards. A special guest at both the European Landscape Biennial in Barcelona and the International Biennial of Cerveira, she has also shown at the Boston Center for the Arts (USA), Centre d’Art Santa Mónica (Barcelona), Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico), AC Institute (New York), Seika University Art Gallery (Japan), TRAFO (Poland), Excentricités Festival (France), Visions_V (Greece), Performensk (Belarus), Pavilion Milchhof (Berlin), among others. She has been artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin), Campo Arqueológico de Mértola (Portugal), Museu de Sant Pol (Barcelona), and MacLaughlin Natural Reserve (California), among other institutions. Her work is represented in European and North American public collections.
