Film still from Muse Seek Project (2014)

Noa Batlle Manukyan

Born in 1983, Dominican Republic. Self-taught artist. Developed a practice grounded in research, experimentation, and collaboration.
Lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

noabatllem@gmail.com‍ ‍

Since 2013, their work has moved between artistic research, public education, and structural interventions, examining how systems organize access, experience, and knowledge.

Through The Interventions (2020–present)—an ongoing body of work unfolding within governmental and public institutions—Batlle has contributed to reconfiguring how accessibility is understood and implemented in Dominican public life. These interventions include conceiving and leading the first municipal Department of Inclusion and Accessibility at Santo Domingo City Hall and initiating the Accessibility and Inclusion Committee within the Central Electoral Board, contributing to the most inclusive electoral process in the country’s history during the 2024 elections.

Batlle’s practice approaches accessibility not as accommodation but as a lens through which dominant sensory and social orders can be questioned and expanded. Their work spans contexts ranging from Deaf education to large-scale cultural events, including collaborations with international artists such as Coldplay, Bad Bunny, and Rosalía.

Their work has been presented on international platforms including the United Nations General Assembly (2023) and the 19th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates (2024).

Recent and ongoing projects include a research residency at the National Botanical Garden of the Dominican Republic examining epistemic violence embedded in botanical naming across Latin America and the Caribbean, and work as Accessibility Advisor to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, engaging protected areas and cave systems as sites where perception, embodiment, and knowledge are reconfigured.

Batlle was selected for the 2026 Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, a biennial platform bringing together twenty artists from across the Caribbean.