Abigail DeVille
B. 1981, NEW YORK, NY
WORKS IN BRONX, NY
Abigail DeVille’s most recent solo exhibitions include: "In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers", JTT NYC (2023); "Original Night", Eric Firestone Gallery (2022-23); "Bronx Heavens", Bronx Museum of the Arts (2022-23); "Light of Freedom", Madison Square Park Conservancy (2020-21), which traveled to the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021), and the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021-22); "The American Future", Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland (2018-19); "Lift Every Voice and Sing (amerikanskie gorki)", Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017-2018); Empire State Works in Progress (2017) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; "No Space Hidden (Shelter)", Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017-2018), and "Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See The Stars", The Contemporary, Baltimore (2016). DeVille was a 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Award recipient, 2018 United States Artists Fellow, 2017-2018 Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome, 2015 Obie Award for Design, 2015 Creative Capital grantee, 2014-15 fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, 2013-14 Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient. DeVille received her MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Photo: John Edmonds, 2020
