Noor Alé is a curator, art historian, and writer whose exhibitions and roles span international contemporary art institutions. Her curatorial practice examines the intersections of contemporary art with land relations, cosmologies, and geopolitics pertaining to the Global Majority. Of particular interest are the Americas and their histories of oceanic diasporas, trade routes, and knowledge exchanges. Through a relational, transcultural and transhistorical lens her work unearths convergences that foster common ground across geographical and ideological divides.

Currently, she is the Associate Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston. She has held positions at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi Project, New York; and Art Dubai. She has curated independently, written for exhibition catalogues and arts journals, and has been invited to speak about contemporary art at universities and conferences.

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; and The Falling Sky, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, and All is well on the border, Vtape, Toronto, among others.

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.

Born in Mexico City, and raised in Germany and Canada, Alé is of Native American, European, and West Asian descent. She earned her MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.