Noor Alé is a curator, art historian, and writer whose exhibitions and roles span international contemporary art institutions. Her practice delves into the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics, migration, and land relations pertaining to the Global Majority. Through a relational, transcultural and transhistorical lens her work unearths convergences that engender solidarities across ideological divisions. She has held positions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi Project, New York; and Art Dubai.

At The Power Plant, she curated Abdelkader Benchamma: Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss, Hiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?, and Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT. Often working collaboratively, she was a co-curator of Anna Boghiguian: Time of Change, and the institutional curator for Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity. In her independent practice, she curated this is not an atlas, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington; Valentin Brown: Welcome to My Regulated Body, Art Windsor-Essex; and Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington.

Since 2016, she has shared a collaborative curatorial practice with Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator at The Bass Museum of Art, Florida. They are founders of AXIS, an independent curatorial laboratory dedicated to socially-engaged contemporary art. Together they have curated OF THE SACRED, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto; The Falling Sky, Trinity Square Video, Toronto; and LAW & (DIS)ORDER at Vtape, Toronto.

She was a Curator-in-Residence at SOMA, Mexico City; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; the Shanghai Curators Lab organized between the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Shanghai Biennial; and she was awarded a fellowship by the Association of Art Museum Curators, New York. Among these accolades, the exhibition Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity received an award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

Alé earned her MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; and her BA in Art History from the University of Guelph. She sits on the Board of Directors of The Images Festival, Toronto.