Noah Lagle

Noah Lagle is an artist and educator whose work engages printmaking, sculpture, and installation to explore archival practices and collections as a way to engage with intellectual history and familial heritage. Noah holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and a BA from the University of Vermont. He was awarded the Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award in 2025, as well as residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. Noah has exhibited his work internationally and nationally and is currently teaching at the University of Georgia and the University of North Georgia. Founder of Public Works Press and co-founder of good nest press, Lagle has printed and published the work of contemporary artists while facilitating public printmaking workshops.

My practice explores how language, materiality, information, and systems of categorization shape our understanding of identity and place. Through archival and architectural forms, I investigate boundaries and borders that influence our perception of ourselves and our world, examining spaces between transparency and concealment, preservation and loss.

Central to my work is an investigation of containers and compartments. These works explore how organizational structures mediate our experience of information and memory and the interplay between opacity and revelation. My methodology connects personal archives, institutional repositories, and digital networks to understand how knowledge production shapes ways we inhabit culture and form connections with each other.