Noor Chadha is an Indian-born artist who grew up as a third-culture-kid in Hong Kong before working in New York City for over a decade. She is now based in Cambridge, MA.
Rooted in research-driven methodologies and community engagement, Noor’s practice weaves together threads from Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, quantum entanglement, eco-poetics, and abnormal psychology. Whether tracing the invisible path of a walk recalled from memory, reflecting on the sublime silence between wave crests, exploring the shared materials of family across generations, or facilitating community rituals of healing, Noor approaches art as a means of radical attunement to shared consciousness, environments, and histories.
Her work emerges from painting but moves freely through an evolving range of media including drawing, performance, bookmaking, poetry, and audiovisual formats. She invites viewers into layered temporalities: personal time shaped by memory and aging; ancestral time carried through sociocultural inheritance; planetary time marked by geologic and cosmic rhythms; and psychological time where past and future collide. Above all, her creative process is a gesture toward connection – not only between people, but between ways of knowing and forms of being. Through reverent attention to breath, matter, and memory, Noor cultivates a practice of kinship that honors the entangled relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including “Digital Dreams” at Emerson Contemporary Gallery, “Mental Spaces” at 80WSE Gallery, “Small Works” at Trestle Gallery, “Art in Translation” at ECNU Shanghai, and at the ISE Cultural Foundation where her painting won the New York City Audience Award. Her work has also been featured in the 2018 film Beach House, a psychological thriller directed by Jason Saltiel. Noor holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and a BFA from NYU with a double major in studio art and psychology.