Noah Ry

Biography:

Born in 1979, Noa Ry grew up in a small town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, in a commune woven from the lives of her extended family. Today, she lives in Zurich. It was her stepfather’s work with computers in the 1980s that quietly opened a path—one that would lead her to explore the fragile, shifting relationship between humans and technology.

At sixteen, she entered art school in Zurich. By twenty, Noa Ry had completed her Bachelor of Arts, and by twenty-seven, a Master’s degree in Cultural and Gender Studies at ZHdK Zurich. This period of study left a deep imprint on her perception of the world—her inspiration rooted not outside, but within the architecture of her own mind.

Living with schizoaffective disorder, Noa Ry moves through realities layered beyond the visible. She hears voices, sees what others do not, and experiences the world as distortion—colliding, splintering, dissolving into a thousand fragments, much like identity itself. What may appear as rupture holds, at the same time, a hidden potential. Through persistence, she has come to recognize this multiplicity as a source—both fragile and powerful—of artistic creation.

For over three decades, Noa Ry has explored the unstable threshold where the human and the technological converge. Her concept of the “DIVORG”—a dividing organism—extends Donna Haraway’s „Cyborg Manifesto“, reflecting the fractured, fluid condition of the digital age.

And so at the core of Noa Ry’s work lies a question: how do humans and technology shape one another?

Her practice spans robotic art, sculptures, sculptural paintings, digitally drawn works, animations, videos, and installations. Moving fluidly between analogue and digital forms of expression, she experiments with combining and transforming different media. In doing so, her work dissolves the boundaries between the physical and the virtual. Through this approach, Noa Ry strives to question and transcend the divisions between formats, media, individuals, and society—ultimately surrendering to the creative process itself.

She does not approach technology with fear, but with curiosity. For her, art is a way of facing the future—of entering it, questioning it, and shaping it.

Again and again, she returns to a constellation of questions:

Who created whom?

Where will this merging lead us?

Is technology becoming a new form of belief?

Are we drowning in machines—or being remade through them?

What, now, does “nature” mean?

Noa Ry’s work does not offer answers. Instead, it reflects—like a fractured mirror—the condition of the 21st century, where humanity and technology are no longer separate, but entangled in a continuous process of becoming.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2026

  • Context Art Miami, with Gallery Makowski, USA
  • Tokyo Art Fair, Japan
  • Representation at Gallery Makowski, New York, USA (6 months)
  • Exhibition at General Assembly Gallery, London, UK
  • Exhibition at Chaos Gallery, London, UK
  • “Art House Show,” DNA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • Group Exhibition, Holy Art Gallery, New York, USA
  • Group Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Barcelona, Spain
  • Group Exhibition, Space Gallery, London, UK
  • Group Exhibition, Gallery Azur, Miami, USA (1 month)
  • Publication: Top Investable Artists 2026 Hardcover Edition

2025

  • Group Exhibition, Boomer Gallery, London, UK
  • Group Exhibition, Bizarre at Gallery Art & Business, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Award Winner: El Greco Fine Arts Award (ICM Gestora Cultural Board, Spain)
  • Award Winner: Collectors Art Prize: Art Legends of Our Time
  • Group Exhibition, Gallery Azur, RED DOT Miami Art Basel, USA
  • Group Exhibition, Gallery Artifact2, LA Art Show, USA
  • Publication: Tagblatt Zurich City Newspaper
  • Group Exhibition, Photobastei / Gallery Bizart, Zurich, Switzerland

2024

  • Publication: AATONAU Magazine
  • Group Exhibition, Artavita Gallery, RED DOT Miami Art Basel, USA
  • Group Exhibition, MEMA Barcelona, Spain
  • Group Exhibition, Art International Zurich, Switzerland
  • Group Exhibition, Art Expo New York, USA
  • Publication: World Art Guide 2023

2023

  • “Underneath” & “Underneath Animated,” Monaco Art Fair, Monaco
  • “Underneath” (Print), Times Square, New York, USA
  • “An animal, Golden Age and Web,” Times Square, New York, USA
  • LA Art Show / Miami / New York (digital), Gallery Artifact, USA
  • Publication: World Art Guide 2023

2022

  • Focus Art Fair, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France
  • DIVORG Animation, Capital Culture House, Monaco
  • Publication: Art Vue Prize Summer Magazine
  • Award Winner: Most Original Idea (Brussels Art View)
  • “Holding Together,” MADS Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • Canvas International Art Fair, Venice, Italy
  • Group Exhibition, Madrid, Spain
  • Artscloud Digital Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
  • VR Exhibition “Clash,” Holy Art Gallery, London, UK

2021

  • Publication: NNC Gallery VWorld Art Magazine
  • “Locked In,” Artfield, Paris, France
  • VR Exhibition, Capital Culture House, Madrid, Spain
  • Video Art “The Wall” — 3rd Prize, TMF Gallery, Switzerland
  • “Golden Age,” Haarwerkstatt, Zurich, Switzerland

2020

  • FAT Art Fair, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • Artbox Project Zurich 2.0, Swiss Art Expo

2017

  • Exhibition, Modern era ruins, Zurich, Switzerland

Statement:

“In my works, if you encounter what you call “mistakes,” it is only the inability to see the possibility within them. Take another angle. Think further, differently— and an entirely new perspective begins to unfold. For these “errors” are the very soul of storytelling”.