Critical Distance DIRECTORY Noor Alé

Noor Alé is a curator, art historian, and writer whose exhibitions and roles span international contemporary art institutions. Her practice delves into the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics, cosmologies, and land relations pertaining to the Global Majority. Through a relational, transcultural and transhistorical lens her work unearths convergences that engender solidarities across ideological divisions. She has held positions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi Project, New York; and Art Dubai.

She was a Curator-in-Residence at SOMA, Mexico City; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; the Shanghai Curators Lab organized between the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Shanghai Biennial; and she was awarded a fellowship by the Association of Art Museum Curators, New York. Among these accolades, the exhibition Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity received an award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Alé earned her MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; and her BA in Art History from the University of Guelph.