About Luis Felipe Noe

Luis Felipe Noé (Buenos Aires, 26 de mayo de 1933 - 9 de abril de 2025)

He studied at Horacio Butler's workshop and then continued his training as a self-taught artist. Between 1956 and 1961, he worked as a journalist for the newspaper El Mundo, where he wrote art reviews. He lived in Paris and New York. 

Between 1961 and 1965 he was part of the group known as New Argentine Figurative Art or Other Figurativism with Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Macció and Jorge de la Vega. The group was invited to participate in the Guggenheim International Prize in 1964 and was honored in the historical section of the São Paulo Biennial in 1985, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires in 1991 and at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in 2010 with the retrospective exhibition El estallido de la pintura.

Since 1959 he has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions. In addition to retrospective exhibitions at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, 1995), at the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City, 1996) and at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2010). In 2009, he represented Argentina at the 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice and was guest of honor at the XX International Biennial of Curitiba in 2013. In 2017, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes dedicated Noé: Mirada prospectiva to him, which exhibited the practice of his chaos theory. 

He has published numerous books, including Antiestética (Van Riel, 1965; De la Flor; 1988, 2015); Una sociedad colonial avanzada (De la Flor, 1971); Códice rompecabezas con recontrapoder sobre cajón desastre (De la Flor, 1974; Fundación Luis Felipe Noé, 2021); A Oriente por Occidente (Dos Gráfico, Bogotá, 1992); El arte en cuestión (Adriana Hidalgo, 2000) with Horacio Zabala; Las aventuras de recontrapoder (De la Flor, 2003) with Nahuel Rando; Wittgenstein ese es el caso (Ediciones Malvario and Albatros, 2005); Noescritos, sobre eso que se llama arte (Adriana Hidalgo, 200); En el nombre de Noé (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2009) with Noé Jitrik; Mi viaje - Cuaderno de bitácora (El Ateneo, 2015); El caos que constituimos (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2017); En terapia (Galería Rubbers, 2018). El arte entre la tecnología y la rebelión (Argonauta, 2020), El ojo que escribe (Ampersand, 2024) and Asumir el caos. En la vida y en el arte (El cuenco de plata, 2024) 

He has received, among other awards, the Premio Nacional Di Tella (1963), grants from the French government (1961) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1965 and 1966). For his career he has been awarded the Gran Premio de Honor del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1997) and the Konex Brillante a las Artes Visuales (2002). The Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires declared him Distinguished Citizen (2006). Tribute Award from the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (2009), Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires (2015), Honorable Mention Senator Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, National Chamber of Senators (2017), Lifetime Achievement Award National Hall of Visual Arts (2019).

In 2017, together with his family and team of professionals staff, he created the Luis Felipe Noé Foundation.