Nolen Nareedokmai is an artist and photographer who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Thai and Irish American parents and initially built a career in agriculture before enrolling as a student at Pratt Institute, where he is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography. 

Nolen’s practice takes inspiration from an expanded field of photography that includes interrogation, appropriation, and material transformation. He begins with photography but increasingly moves beyond it into forms such as hand-made artists' books, sculptures, and site specific installations that trace how images can move from record into symbol, disturbance, and personal mythology. Nolen’s recent work is concerned with the ontological, psychological, and sociological relationship art has to life: how it shapes meaning, reveals what is hidden, and gives physical form to forces that otherwise remain unarticulated.