Noah Lyon

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Noah Lyon (born September 11, 1979) is a New York City based artist. He lives in Brooklyn and works everywhere. He graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2001.

Noah Lyon is the founder of RETARD RIOT, a network of radical individuals devoted to art, music, philosophy, semiotics and political science. He works under a variety of alias’ in many different mediums; drawing, painting, book arts, sound, video, new media, writing, performance and installation. He has contributed regularly to a number a publications including Fort Thunder’s now legendary Paper Rodeo. He currently writes cultural criticism under the pen name Doctor Ninja. His prolific output includes many self published zines, stickers, Retard Riot Radio programs, collaborative tape music and multiple thousands of homemade buttons. ^[1]

Exhibition History

Lyon’s drawings have been shown alongside Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg and many other of the 20th centuries most influential artists in the international traveling museum exhibition ”Rock N Roll Vol.1” which has toured Scandinavia and is scheduled to open in Paris in 2009. He has shown at Art Basel, The Armory Show,Printed Matter Inc., Anthology Film Archives, Deitch Projects, and many other international galleries. His artist books are in the permanent library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Britain

Noah Lyon is represented in Stockholm Sweden by Brandstrom and Stene. .