Noah Davis (June 3, 1983[1] – August 29, 2015),[2] was an American painter, installation artist, and founder of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles.

In 2012, he founded the Underground Museum with his wife, the sculptor Karon Davis, in Arlington Heights, a historically working-class African-American and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles.

The Underground Museum is an artist-run, experimental exhibition space made up of a series of interconnected storefronts in Arlington Heights, CA.

Davis' original idea behind the space was to "sidestep the gallery system, preferring to bring museum-quality art to a community that had no access to it 'within walking distance,' as he once put it.

"[9] After Davis' passing his brother Kahlil Joseph and his sister-in-law, the film producer Onye Anyanwu, joined as founding board members.

[9] Artists exhibited throughout the institution's history include Rodney McMillian, Lorna Simpson, Roy DeCarava, April Street, Deana Lawson, William Kentridge.

[11] The museum was closed for nearly two years due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and reopened in January 2022 under the newly appointed co-directorship of curator Meg Onli and executive Cristina Pacheco.

The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, organized Young Blood (2016), an exhibition exploring the work of Davis, his brother Kahlil Joseph, and the Underground Museum;[20] David Zwirner Gallery, New York, staged a career retrospective in 2020 curated by Helen Molesworth;[21] and a suite of Davis' paintings were included in The Milk of Dreams (2022) at the 59th Venice Biennale.