Essay by Donald Kuspit and Anthony Haden-Guest

Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition A Stranger in a Strange Land, Orange Art Foundation, online gallery (11 November – 20 December 2020).

Noah Becker (born 1970) is an American and Canadian artist, writer, art publisher, and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City and Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A prodigy in painting and drawing, Becker was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up on a 40-acre farm on Thetis Island, off the coast of British Columbia. He moved with his family to Victoria, British Columbia, at age 15, after their house burned down. He had little early formal education and did not attend high school but excelled at writing. He was a painting student at Victoria College of Art, and studied saxophone in Toronto before moving to New York in 2010.