Noah Lyon (born September 11, 1979) is a New York City based artist. He lives in Brooklyn and works everywhere. He graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2001.

Noah Lyon is the founder of RETARD RIOT, a network of radical individuals devoted to art, music, philosophy, semiotics and political science. He works under a variety of alias’ in many different mediums; drawing, painting, book arts, sound, video, new media, writing, performance and installation. He has contributed regularly to a number a publications including Fort Thunder’s now legendary Paper Rodeo. He currently writes cultural criticism under the pen name Doctor Ninja. His prolific output includes many self published zines, stickers, Retard Riot Radio programs, collaborative tape music and multiple thousands of homemade buttons.

Retard Riot Buttons

Noah Lyon has created and continues to develop a series of one inch pin-back buttons, creating thousands of hand drawn designs and original texts. The buttons contain a mix of political satire, absurdist propaganda, social critique and simple observations.

Lyon as an artist has been compared to Pablo Picasso, not because of his aesthetics but rather the brut instinct, intimacy and intuitive playfulness that his work reflects.

Exhibition History

Lyon’s drawings have been shown alongside Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg and many other of the 20th centuries most influential artists in the international traveling museum exhibition ”Rock N Roll Vol.1” which has toured Scandinavia and is scheduled to open in Paris in 2009. He has shown at Art Basel, The Armory Show,Printed Matter Inc., Anthology Film Archives, Deitch Projects, and many other international galleries. His artist books are in the permanent library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Britain

Noah Lyon is represented in Stockholm Sweden by Brandstrom and Stene.

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Andrew Skwish is an American illustrator and photographer. He has a Bachelors degree from SUNY Buffalo. He has worked as a freelance illustrator for important publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone. He has taught at Florida’s Poynter Institute.

The characteristic style of his work has been influenced by Joan Miró’s work for the illustrators of Vanity Fair between 1930 and 1940, and digital artists as Sophie Dutertre and Jotto Seibod. The most important characteristic in his works is the use of scanned textures.

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