Noah Greyson Holub (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores intimacy, gender, sexuality, and belonging through acrylic paintings, digital illustrations, and varied writings. His works reflect a wide range of references, from Western sitter-focussed portraiture to comics and pop culture. Working from either found or personal references of lovers and friends, Noah’s recent works centre intimate queer deviance that is still considered perverse. Fantastical body-modifications decorate their figures, poking fun at the idea of the “mystical” trans body, all while depicting his love for speculative fiction. Ultimately, Noah wants to depict queer existence in its multitudes; delicate, messy, genuine, and joyful.

His current ongoing series “Queerly Beloved” and “The Mundane Queer” have made his work more diaristic and community-focussed. The former challenges normative painting relations and power dynamics by prioritizing the sitter’s consent and agency. Each model is identified so that their complex, individual gender expressions and personhoods intertwine with the visual canon of queer historical figures. The latter series, on the other hand, presents scenes of personal, fagdyke domesticity such as injecting HRT, playing with masculinizing makeup, and so on.