Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Diana Noh

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 11:00am, Wayne State University

Soft Ruins: Mending the Self Through Photography

Diana Noh is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, fiber, and installation. Her practice celebrates reconstructions of distressed photographs of architectural spaces and landscapes, exploring themes of trauma embedded in her family relationships and cultural in-betweenness.

She has exhibited across Asia, North America, and Europe, at venues including Space HNH in Seoul, South Korea; Griffin Museum in Fayetteville, NC; Editart in Geneva, Switzerland; Winchester, MA; Evanston Art Center in Chicago, IL; The Arts Council in Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY. She has completed residencies at Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, WI; Talking Dolls in Detroit, MI. Her work is collected in the collections of Jennifer and Dan Gilbert, Kyungil University.

Diana is currently an Artist Residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition in Chicago, IL. She holds a B.F.A. from Kyungil University (South Korea) and earned an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI).