Noam Segal, Ph.D.

Noam Segal, Ph.D., joined the curatorial department in 2023. Her work centers curatorial practice at the intersection of digital, political, and social representations in contemporary art. Prior to joining the Guggenheim, she was the director of curatorial research in the MA program for curatorial practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York. In that role, she organized the Algorithmic State, an online series of critical discussions that considers the evolution and implications of digital art and new technologies in current sociocultural, political, and ecological settings. These talks featured artists and technological scholars such as James Bridle, Agnieszka Kurant, Lev Manovich, Hito Steyerl, Jenna Sutela, and others. Segal has curated exhibitions and presented public lectures and programs at several museums and arts organizations across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. In 2022, she served on the curatorial team, led by artist Kader Attia, of Still Present!, the twelfth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. She organized Maria Hassabi: Cancelled (2022), a performance utilizing media to explore the complexities of womanhood, for the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art. In 2020, Segal organized the AURORA Biennial Afterwards was already before in Dallas, weaving together in-person and digital events of diverse scales. Furthermore, Segal has curated and cocurated an array of internationally renowned shows such as Neil Beloufa: The Enemy of My Enemy, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018; Pope.L: One Thing after Another, La Panacee, Montpellier, 2018; and Anri Sala: No Names, No Title, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2015. Segal's scholarly contributions to books, academic journals, art magazines, and catalogues include writings on artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Adelita Husni-Bey, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Bracha L. Ettinger, Wu Tsang, and others. Segal holds a Ph.D. and MA in hermeneutics and cultural studies, with a dissertation on social positions and community models in installation art, from Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv.