Noah Beyene
Born 1993, Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in London
Education
2023 BFA, Slade School of fine art, London, United Kingdom.
Selected solo exhibitions
Sweetish, CFHill, Stockholm 2026
Making an Impression, The Bridge Gallery, Paris 2025
Mourning Light, Solito Gallery, Naples 2025
Head First, Addis Fine Art, London 2023
Beyond the Seas, Ahouse, Stockholm 2020
Selected group exhibitions
Changing the Subject, Annely Juda Fine Art, London 2024
Connected Threads, Addis Fine Art, New York, 2024
Undergraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2023
Public Collections
AMOCA Wales
In his luminous and expansive paintings, Noah Beyene (b. 1993, Stockholm) examines the visual construction of national identity, belonging, and cultural memory. Working predominantly in oil, Beyene applies paint in thin, near-transparent washes that lend his images a deliberate fragility and often reveal a psychological unease disguised in bright harmony. Born to a Swedish mother and an Ethiopian father, he works from within pictorial traditions that have historically implied homogeneity, inserting himself into familiar scenes, vibrant yellow light, and rural idylls of Swedish National Romanticism, testing their limits rather than rejecting them outright. That same fragility, pushed to its limit, becomes the subject rather than just the surface in Beyene's works in ice and snow: body imprints made in snow and transferred to canvas with reflective glass beads that suggest the glimmer of fresh snow, and ice sculptures that exist only to disappear. Across these works, the trace becomes a recurring preoccupation: what a body leaves behind, what a culture chooses to preserve, and what efforts go into the construction of narrative. In so doing, Beyene tells not only the story of an outsider but a much larger one about existential dread and the systems that exist to reassure us of our place within it, and how those systems are themselves subordinate to the environments and natural forces from which they first arose.