Noa Vigny Billick (b. 1997, Montreal) is a Jewish Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who creates books that don't always look like books, but often look Jewish.
Noa is a Jewish artist reinventing the book form.
Noa Billick (she/her) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and academic. She is a Doctoral Student in the Communications and Culture Ph.D. program at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Noa explores Jewish communication, ritual, and storytelling through material and craft. Her recent work engages with tradition and personal experience, creating objects that bridge historical practice with contemporary expression, reflecting the modern diasporic Jewish experience. Through hands-on making, she investigates how physical forms carry meaning, memory, and connection across time and place. Noa's projects often highlight the interconnectedness of storytelling and identity, emphasizing traditional objects as a medium through which people share and preserve experiences.
Central to Noa's research and art are themes of Jewish storytelling, material culture, ritual, and the symbolic power of books as vessels of memory and identity. Working across book arts, ceramics, and engaging in the concept of “handmade midrash”, Noa creates pieces that bridge tradition and contemporary life, from narrative-rich books like haggadot, to ritual objects such as seder plates. Through both scholarship and practice, she examines how Jewish objects and stories preserve culture while inviting new interpretations, emphasizing the sacred in everyday acts of making and telling.
Noa was raised in Montreal and is a big fan of the Oxford comma. She is on a mission to make the perfect bowl for cereal and soup (specifically matzah ball). She is lactose intolerant and has a cat named Oatmeal, who is also lactose intolerant.
Noa Vigny Billick (b. 1997, Montreal) is a Jewish Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who creates books that don't always look like books, but often look Jewish.