Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico (1975). Lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Noam Toran emerged out of a primordial ooze buried in the Chihuahuan desert, and spent his childhood sneaking into the Castro Theatre to gorge on triple bills of Noirs, Westerns, Slashers, and sci-fi B movies. His artistic and teaching practice seeks to disrupt imperial and colonial legacies through transgressive, cross-dimensional and a-temporal storytelling, and strives to honour and celebrate various counter-hegemonic expressions of genre fiction, recognizing them as sites for resistance and empowerment which subvert traditional narratives and reshape historical perceptions.
His work is screened, published, exhibited and collected internationally, notably at the CNAC Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), MuHKA (Antwerp), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Venice Architecture Biennale, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Stroom Gallery (Den Haag), Musée d’Art Contemporain (St Etienne), Baltic Contemporary (Newcastle), Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), Musée D’Art Moderne (Luxembourg), Kulturhuset (Stockholm) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).