Abigail DeVille

Abigail DeVille (born 1981, New York, New York, USA) is an artist who creates large sculptures and installations, often incorporating found materials from the neighbourhood around the exhibition venue.[1]

Life

DeVille was born in New York and she attended Pratt Institute (2000) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2007), earning a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology (2007) and an MFA from Yale University (2011). She has attended residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2013–14), and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn (2012). DeVille lives and works in the Bronx, New York.[2]

Work

Abigail DeVille sculptures and installations often focus around themes of the history of racist violence, and gentrification.[3][4][5][6]

Awards

DeVille has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2012) The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust (2012), and Creative Capital (2015).[7]

Exhibition History

Abigail DeVille's work has been included in the exhibitions revolution in the Making, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (2016), Rites of Spring, Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2014); Guts, Abrons Art Center, New York (2013); Black in the Abstract, Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2013); Invisible Men: Beyond the Veil, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (2013); Gastown Follies, Artspeak, Vancouver (2013); Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum (2013); Future Generation Prize Exhibition, the 55th Venice Biennial (2013); They might as well have been remnants of the boat, Calder Foundation, New York (2013); Fore, Studio Museum, New York (2012); Future Generation Prize Exhibition, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2012); First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2012); The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Bosh Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011); The (S) Files 2011, El Museo del Barrio, New York (2011); Planet of Slums, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University (2010); Dark Star, Recess Gallery, New York (2010); and Gold Mountain, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia (2010). She has designed sets for theatrical productions—directed by Peter Sellers and Charlotte Brathwaite—at venues such as the Stratford Festival (2014), JACK (2014), and Joe’s Pub (2014).[8]

References

  1. ↑ The Stuff of Life, Urgently Altered, Holland Cotter, 28 August 2014, New York Times, Retrieved 15 April 2016
  2. ↑ Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2013–2014 Artists in Residence, ArtForum, Retrieved 15 April 2016
  3. ↑ http://www.art21.org/newyorkcloseup/films/abigail-devilles-harlem-stories/
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/arts/design/if-you-leave-me-can-i-come-too-a-show-whose-subject-is-death.html
  5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/arts/design/are-all-women-shows-good-or-bad-for-art.html
  6. ↑ http://www.artmattermagazine.com/abigail-deville-america/
  7. ↑ http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/764/project:824
  8. ↑ http://www.art21.org/newyorkcloseup/artists/abigail-deville/
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