Russell Noganosh (born 1956) is a Canadian Indian First Nation Ojibway from Magnetawan, Ontario. He was born in Henvey Inlet, Ontario at the home of his grandmother. In 1979 Russell apprenticed under Isaac Bignell from The Pas, Manitoba. Bignell taught him the sponge technique of painting. That experience aside, Russell is largely a self taught artist working with various mediums including acrylic on canvas, paper, birch bark, fungus, and hide.