Noa Machover receives Fulbright scholarship

Join us in celebrating Noa Mori Machover

Noa Mori Machover of Waltham, Massachusetts, graduated in May, 2026, with a masters in the dual landscape architecture and fine arts program in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. They have been offered a Fulbright to research and conduct an exhibition in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, studying the relational landscapes of platinum-group metals as they blur boundaries between formal and informal commodity supply chains.

Machover attended Fitzgerald Elementary School and McDevitt Middle School, and notably played Rizzo in “Grease.” They attended Cambridge School of Weston for high school, graduating in 2015. Machover gained early acceptance at M.I.T. and studied biomaterial engineering, co-authoring a paper, “Organic Primitives: Synthesis and Design of pH-Reactive Materials using Molecular I/O for Sensing, Actuation, and Interaction.” They transferred to Brown University to pursue independent studies in biology, environmental studies, social justice and architecture/design.

During Machover’s senior year at Brown, they co-founded Primitives, a biotech based on their freshman research at M.I.T. and won an IndieBio “Golden Ticket” award that provided start-up funding, lab facilities in San Francisco, mentorship and a chance to pitch the company to investors. After graduating from Brown in 2019, Machover spent some months in the Bay Area to launch the company. But the siren call of Art proved stronger. In 2022, Machover moved to Philadelphia to pursue a dual masters degree in fine art and landscape architecture.

In May 2026, Machover’s “After Market” debuted in New York City. They will have a second New York City show in August 2026, and will travel to South Africa for an artist’s residency at the University of Johannesburg.