Noor Alé is the Associate Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts, where she works on exhibitions, public programs, and acquisitions for the Rice Public Art collection. 

As a curator and writer, her exhibitions and roles span international contemporary art institutions. She has held positions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi Project, New York; and Art Dubai. During her tenure as Associate Curator at The Power Plant, she curated and co-curated the exhibitions Abdelkader Benchamma: Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss, Hiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?, Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT, Anna Boghiguian: Time of Change, and Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity. She has written for exhibition catalogues and arts journals, and has been invited to speak about contemporary art at universities and conferences.

Alé was a Curator-in-Residence at SOMA, Mexico City; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; and the Shanghai Curators Lab. She was awarded a fellowship by the Association of Art Museum Curators, New York. Born in Mexico City, and raised in Germany and Canada, Alé is of Native American, European, and West Asian descent. She earned her MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.