Noelle Whitaker is a cross-medium Artist based in Seattle, Washington.

About the artist:

Noelle Whitaker (b.1998) is a multimedia artist from Arizona now living and working in Seattle, Washington. She marries printmaking, sculpture, and installation to build brute works that employ visual patois in an exploration of digital culture, the parasocial, and the self, while pointing to the intersections of both collective and independent subtexts. 

Often exhibiting in nontraditional or artist-run spaces, Whitaker has recently shown in Seattle’s Colosseum Theatre, The Georgetown Steamplant, and Common Ground Gallery. Spring 2026 she completed an artist's residency at Meltola Tuberculosis Center in Raseborg, Finland. She drives a Chrysler 300. The best thing she has ever found on the sidewalk is a set of iron window bars. 

About the work:

Rooted in a practice of sourcing, I pull from my background in printmaking and now incorporate sculpture and installation. Combining materials in an effort to decipher what I refer to as third languages. Materials or images function under the theory of memetics, physical or digital information with implied histories recognizable to the viewers through repetitive exposure.

Memes, found objects, and mementos of personal narrative all collide in works focused on actualization in a hyperdigitized society.

Wood trimmings, metals, hardware, reflective surfaces, screenshots, and photography are all culled as equals; considering the materials as subjects which mirror life as shaped by algorithms, the parasocial, and the isolated. Efforts towards ideation are broken down by cultures of flex, surveillance, and self-commodification. In my practice, image and sculpture turn between artist and viewer, offering levity to a reality challenging to an authentic self. Building assemblages of the digital/physical sphere, the relic, or shrapnel, offers a social portrait, building parallels between the lived and the digital.