He studies in Horacio Butler’s workshop. He lived in Paris between 1961 and 1962 and between 1976 and 1987, in addition to spending time in New York in the 1960s. Between 1961 and 1965 he was part of the group known as Nueva Figuración Argentina, also made up of Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Macció and Jorge de la Vega. This group was invited to participate in the Guggenheim International Prize in 1964 and was honored in the historical section of the São Paulo Biennial in 1985. Since 1959, it has held more than 70 individual exhibitions in its country, Madrid, New York, Paris and in the main cities of Latin America. In 1995 and 1996, two retrospective exhibitions were organized, one at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and the other at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. In 2017, he had a new major retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Mirada prospective (2017). Among other distinctions, he obtained scholarships from the French government (1961) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1965 and 1966), the Di Tella National Prize (1963), the Honorable Mention at the Tokyo International Engraving Biennial (1968), the Fortabat Prize (1986), the Grand Prize of Honor from the National Fund for the Arts of the Argentine Republic (1997), the Konex Honor Prize for painting (1982, 1992 and 2002), for art theory the Platinum Konex Prize (1994 ) and Konex de Brillante (2002), in addition to the Grand Prize of the “Manuel Belgrano” Hall (2002). He publishes the books Antiestética (Ed. Van Riel, Buenos Aires, 1965. Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, 1988), An advanced colonial society (Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, 1971; Asunto Impreso, Buenos Aires, 2003) ; Recontrapoder (Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, 1974); To the East through the West (Ed. Two Graphics, Bogotá, 1992); The other, the other and otherness (Impsat, Buenos Aires, 1994). Together with Horacio Zabala The art in question. Conversations (Edited by Rodrigo Alonso, published by Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2000). With photographs by Roberto Edwards, Bodies Painted by Noé appears in 2003, a book published by the Experimental Workshop on Painted Bodies of Santiago, Chile. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.