Chicago Public Library’s 2025-2026 Arts and Music Department Call for Artists exhibition cycle begins April 6 with untrammeled: Tranquility, Tension, and the Stories We Leave Behind, featuring over 20 sculptural and photographic works by Diana Noh.
Diana Noh is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, fiber, and installation. Her practice celebrates reconstructions of distressed photographs of architectural spaces and landscapes, exploring themes of trauma embedded in her family relationships and cultural in-betweenness. Of her subject matter, Noh writes, “I reconstruct distressed photographs of abandoned spaces and landscapes to explore the trauma of growing up between cultures. I identify with buildings that are hidden but accessible; they stand in for my body and neglected feelings.”
Noh has exhibited pieces in Asia, North America, and Europe, at venues including Space HNH in Seoul, South Korea; Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA; Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL; The Arts Council in Fayetteville, NC; Eastern Market in Detroit, MI; Editart in Geneva, Switzerland; The Art Center Highland Park in Highland Park, IL; Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY; and Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She currently resides in Chicago.
Diana Noh’s untrammeled: Tranquility, Tension, and the Stories We Leave Behind is on display April 6 – June 21, 2025 on the 8th floor of Harold Washington Library Center.