Noelle Whitaker (b.1998) is an artist and Party Girl living and working in Seattle, Washington.

She marries printmaking and sculpture techniques to build brute works, translating generational patois in an exploration of flex culture and the parasocial while pointing to the intersections of both collective and independent subtexts.

She is 27 years old, drives a Chrysler 300 and has been collecting trash for as long as she can remember.

Noelle Whitaker (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Seattle, Washington. In her practice, Whitaker maintains a constructivist approach to materials, using found objects to build works that speak to the world as understood by her generation. This approach motivates her connection-based mode of building. Disinterested in transforming objects from their original form, she instead employs them—along with made images—as conceptual tools, constructing relationships between object, image, and text.

Working across printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Whitaker creates brute works that reflect the emotional and cultural intensity of the present moment. Dissecting heartbreak, loss, flex culture, and internet subcultures, her work translates generational patois to explore the interpersonal versus the parasocial, highlighting intersections between collective and independent subtexts.

Whitaker studied Printmaking at Arizona State University, where she printed editions for artists including Edie Fake and Liz Cohen. While at ASU, a working relationship with artist Kajsa G. Eriksson led to her exploration of sound, informing the installation-based works she produces today. Whitaker moved to Seattle in 2021 and was the first artist-in-residence at Seattle’s historic Georgetown Steam Plant in 2024, culminating in two exhibitions: Pile Up and Reins.

Her work has been exhibited by Accessible Objects (NYC), Weatherproof (Chicago), modified/arts (Phoenix), the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, and more. Recent projects include icons, a two-person exhibition with Alissa Dymally Williams in Seattle’s Colosseum building; a collaboration with Actualize AiR and Handlers; and a curatorial initiative in partnership with Grayson Richer and Common Ground, Seattle.

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