Photos courtesy of Jacob Koestler
Noelle Choy, Garden, 2026.
Wonders of the World (trailer), Noelle Choy.
Noelle Choy
Noelle Choy: Adventurers
On view June 20 – August 22, 2026
In Adventurers, Noelle Choy presents new and ongoing works that explore biographical fiction through precarious materials and their ability to hold fragmented memories within physical space. The exhibition traces how people, conversations, and everyday objects leave emotional residue, shaping both personal and collective acts of remembrance. By reexamining the preciousness of objecthood, the works retain the language of sculptural models, where ideas remain in motion and memories take material form.
The accompanying film, Wonders of the World, follows Choy, her brother, and her aunt as they retrace her mother’s immigration from Taiwan to the United States. Moving through ordinary places—a bus stop, a restaurant, familiar streets—the film unfolds through a rhythmically candid and haunting narrative that becomes as much about her aunt, her mother, and their shared history.
About the Artist:
Noelle Choy’s (b. 1992) work lives mostly as performative sculpture, objects, and video to seek counter-narratives in cultural mythmaking and the phenomenon of getting big inside our bodies. She uses improvised methods and materials to distort biographies, thinking about reenactment, dogs, and mothers. She received a BFA in Sculpture+Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally, including Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens NY), Satellite Art Fair (Brooklyn NY), The Momentary (Bentonville AK), and Snug Harbor Cultural Center (Staten Island NY), among others. She has been awarded residencies from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ACRE, Bunker Projects, Vermont Studio Center, and Stove Works, as well as fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Color Network, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Program. She is a recipient of the Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, and the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award and Byron Cohen Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Kansas City Art Institute in the Painting department.
Learn more about Noelle Choy here.
