Public Collections
MoMA, New York
FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Exhibitions and Screenings
2012
Politique Fiction, curated by Alexandra Midal, St Etienne, May 3 –Jan 10
House Beautiful, curated by Jane O’Neill, San Gabriel Valley House, Los Angeles, March 18 – April 21
Curious Minds, curated by Alex Ward, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Dec 16 – Apr 23
2011
Apres-Coup (solo show), curated by Alexandra Midal, HEAD, Geneva, Sep 24 – Dec 8
Les uns chez les autres, Parc de la Villette, Paris, Jul 19
Magical Consciousness, curated by Runa Islam and Nav Haq, Arnolfini, Bristol, May 12 – Jul 3
Made Up, curated by Tim Durfee, Art Center, Los Angeles, Jan 29 – Mar 20
2010
Videozone 5, International Video Art Biennale, curated by Maayan Sheleff, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Nov 23 – 29
Saint Etienne Biennale, curated by Benjamin Loyauté, Saint Etienne, Nov 17 – Dec 5
I Cling to Virtue, curated by Louise Shannon, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Sep 18 – Oct 10 (with Onkar Kular)
Recipes for an Encounter, curated by Berin Golonu and Candice Hopkins, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, Sep 12 – Nov 14
Paris & Creation, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, Jul 12 – Aug 12
Noam Toran: Things Uncommon (solo show), curated by Alexandra Midal, Le Lieu du Design, Paris, Jun 23 – Aug 12
Impact, Royal College of Art, Mar 15 – 21
Video Appart, Organised by L’Association Plastica, Paris, Mar 6 – 28
2009
Artsway Open 09, Artsway Gallery, Hampshire, Nov 21 – Jan 24
Britspotting Film Festival, Babylon Mitte, Berlin, Nov 13 – 15
Freeze!, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Jul 25 – Sept 27
Super Contemporary, Design Museum, London, June 3 – Oct 4
Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, May 26 – Sept 26
Rough Cut – Design Takes a Sharp Edge, MoMA, New York, Nov 26 08 – Oct 12 09
Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London, Feb 12 – June 14
2008
Videozone 4, International Video Art Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Nov 25 – Dec 1
Nowhere NowHere, Laboral AICC, Asturias, Oct 9 – April 20
ACToRAL 7, MontéVidéo, Marseilles, Sept 29 – Oct 11
Wouldn’t it be Nice, Somerset House, London, Sept 17 – Dec 18
On Purpose: Design Concepts, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Sept 13 – Nov 9
16th Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, July 1 – 6
International Film Festival of Cinema and Technology, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, July 5 – 6
15th Rencontres Internationales, Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid, May 4 – May 15
Kits for an Encounter, Western Front Society, Vancouver, April 25 – May 30
Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, New York, Feb 24 – May 12
2007
14th Rencontres Internationales, Cinéma l’Entrepôt, Paris, Nov 22 – Dec 1
Deeeeesire, Gaatov Galleries, Los Angeles, November
Desire Management Screening, DE07, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Arts, Newcastle, October
Desire Management Screening, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, September
Products of our Time, Goldstein Museum, Minneapolis, July 21 – Sept 30
Don’t Panic, The Yard Gallery, London, June
Tomorrow Now, Musée D’Art Moderne, Luxembourg, May
Postponing the Inevitable, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, March (solo show)
Designing Critical Design, with Dunne & Raby, Z33, Hasselt, March
Science of Spying, Science Museum, London, February
2006
Zero One: ISEA 06, San Jose, August
An Evening of Violence and Destruction, Architecture Biennial, Yard Gallery, London, June (solo show)
Xenith Film Festival, Zurich, May
Britspotting Film Festival, Berlin, April
2005
Raindance 13 International Film Festival, London, premiere screening
Destruction Series 2, The Yard Gallery, London (solo show)
Pop Noir, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Extra/Ordinary, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Vitra Film Night, Vitra Showroom, 100% Design London
2004
D-DAY: Design Aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Domestic Demolition Derby, Installation with Onkar Kular, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The OTHER, Architecture Biennale, Spiazzi Gallery, Venice
2003
Noam Toran – New Work, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (solo show)
Noam Toran – Three in One, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (solo show)
Subliminal Furniture, Automaten Gallery, Berlin
2002
Subliminal Furniture, Mixed Realities Exhibition, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
Objects for Lonely Men, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2001
Six Visions Exhibition, Miyake Studio Gallery, Tokyo
The Museum of the Unknown, OXO Tower, London
Residencies and Lectures
2011
Lecture, University for the Creative Arts Epsom, Dec 1
Lecture, HEAD, Geneva, Sep 24
Lecture, Strelka Institute, Moscow, Aug 4
Workshop, ZombieHeights, Strelka Institute, Moscow, Aug 1-10
Speaker, Icon Minds, London, May 26
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths, London, Mar 28
2010
Workshop, Semaine Folle 2010, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Reims, Dec 11 – 17
Speaker, Artists Now Series, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Nov 3
Guest Speaker, Digital Design Drop In, V&A Museum, London, Oct 6
Speaker, Props and Set – the Making of Narratives, Shunt Space, London, May 13
Visiting Lecturer, Kingston School of Art and Design, London, Mar 16
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths Fine Art and Art History Dept, London, Jan 19
2009
Speaker, Conference sur Design et Fiction, École Supérieure d’Arts de Brest, Brest, Dec 2
Visiting Lecturer, Ravensbourne College, Chiselhurst, April 27
Speaker, Interaction Design Conference, Arts Academy, Split, March 19 – 21
Guest Lecturer, Research Methodology Course, Royal College of Art, London, March 11
2008
Keynote Speaker, Design Cinema 2008, Istanbul, November 19 – 22
Speaker, London Calling, DesignTransfer Gallery, Berlin, November 13
Speaker, Pecha Kucha, Tokyo, March 26
Speaker, Human Enhancement Technologies Seminar, Goethe Institute, London, February 12
2007
Participant – British Council Open Space Conference, Istanbul, November 25 – 27
Conference speaker – Revisitez le Design, Louvre Museum, Paris, October 21
Visiting Lecturer, Parsons University, New York
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Applied Arts, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
2006
Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven
Visiting Lecturer, PRATT University, Brooklyn
Visiting Lecturer, Minneapolis University, Minnesota
Visiting Lecturer, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York
Visiting Lecturer, SAID Business School, Oxford
2005
Conference speaker – Interior Insights Symposium, London
Visiting Lecturer – UCLA Design/Media Arts Department, Los Angeles
2004
Visiting Lecturer – Nottingham University, Nottingham
Residency – Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea
Judging Panelist – Deutsche Bank Pioneer Awards, Royal College of Art, London
N.E.S.T.A. Pioneer Program Participant, London
2003
Visiting Lecturer, Sheffield University, Sheffield
Visiting Lecturer/Workshop leader – Bezalel University, Jerusalem
Visiting Lecturer, Central St. Martins, London
Visiting Lecturer, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Visiting Lecturer, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Guest Speaker, Automaten Gallery, Berlin
2002
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
Artist in Resident, IDEO San Francisco
Artist in Resident, Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem
2001
Research Fellow, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea (IT)
Selected Bibliography
2012
Dark Places: Design between horror and science fiction, by Alexandra Midal, Rosa B Edition 3, Issue no 4
2011
Talk to Me – Exhibition Catalogue, NY MOMA
I Cling to Virtue, The White Review, Issue no 2
I Cling to Virtue, Axis Magazine, Issue 150
2010
St Etienne Design Biennale 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, St Etienne
The MacGuffin Men, Icon Magazine, Issue 088
Recipes for an Encounter, Exhibition Catalogue, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island
Visionaire 57, 2010 Edition, Visionaire Publishing
L’intrigant Noam Toran by Anne Marie Fevre, Libération, August 2
Things Uncommon, Exhibition Catalogue, Le Lieu du Design, Paris
2009
Factory, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Bat Yam, Israel
Noam Toran’s Favorite “Designed” Things in Detective Films, Icon Magazine, Issue 070
Freeze!, Exhibition Catalogue, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
On Purpose, Exhibition Catalogue, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
New Talents – State of the Arts, edited by Hans Maier-Aichen, published by Avedition
MacGuffins, Abitare Magazine, Cover Article, Issue 489
Best of 2008, Frieze Magazine, Issue 120
2008
MacGuffin Library, 032C Magazine, Issue 16
The MacGuffin Library, Icon Magazine, Online video interview
Digital by Design, edited by Troika, published by Thames and Hudson
Nowhere NowHere, Exhibition Catalogue, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
The MacGuffin Library, Electric Sheep Magazine, September
Accessories for Lonely Men, Adbusters, issue no 78
Crashland – Curation of Platform 11 exhibition at the Trico Gallery, Tokyo, March 20 –24
Design and the Elastic Mind – Exhibition Catalogue, NY MOMA
2007
Exercise in Sadness – Noam Toran, Pop Manifesto, Issue 03
Tomorrow Now – Exhibition Catalogue, Luxembourg MUDAM
2006
Interview – We Make Money Not Art
Products for a Parallel World, Home Cultures, January Edition
Desire Management, KaK Design Magazine, Russia, February Edition
2005
Focus, Etapes Magazine, July
D.Day – Design Aujourd’hui, Exhibition Catalogue, CNAC Pompidou, Paris
Design for Thought exhibition review, Jerusalem Post Newspaper, Israel, October
Les Machines a Fantasmes de Noam Toran, Liberation Newspaper, France, July
2004
SPOON, Phaidon Press
2003
The New Communicators, Blueprint Magazine, March
2001
Godard of small things, The Independent Newspaper, February
Design Noir, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, published by August-Birkhauser Press
Education
MA in Design, 1999-2001
Royal College of Art, London
BA in Fine Arts, 1993-1997
University of California, Santa Cruz