Connie Noyes is a multidisciplinary artist working with water as a conduit for exploring grief, cultural memory, and collective emotional growth. Her practice is rooted in a deep inquiry into the ways bodies—both human and aquatic—hold history, loss, and transformation.
Born in Washington, DC, Noyes holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in psychology from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Her work is further shaped by her training as a death doula and studies in Butoh, which inform her approach to embodiment, mourning, and ritual.
In 2024, she received the Cabins Haystack Residency Fellowship in Norfolk, CT, along with two artist grants from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities including Paris, Innsbruck, Munich, Dubai, and Bangi. Through her affiliation with the Salwa Zeidan Gallery in the UAE, she participated in Art Abu Dhabi, Art Bahrain, and the Biennale Internationale d’Art non-objectif in France. In the U.S., she collaborated with sound artist Beth Bradfish and Harvestworks for Untied1United on Governors Island in New York, and presented solo exhibitions such as we are built in water at the Evanston Art Center and A(mend)ed at both Wedge Projects in Chicago and Abel Contemporary in Wisconsin.
Noyes has participated in numerous international residencies, including the TransArt summer program in Berlin; Arteles in Finland; CAMP in France; ChaNorth in New York; the Emaar International Art Symposium in Dubai; and the Thupelo International Workshop in Cape Town. Her work is held in several collections, including The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; The Ekstrom Library of Photographic Archives in Louisville; the Rhode Island School of Design; and the Greenville County Museum in South Carolina. She lives and works in Chicago.