April 25, 2022
Dickinson's art & art history department presents a public event featuring this year's artist-in-residence.
Photo credit: Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times
Dickinson is pleased to announce that esteemed artist Abigail Deville will give a public lecture on campus followed by a question & answer session.
Abigail DeVille's most recent solo exhibition, Light of Freedom, was shown at Madison Square Park Conservancy (2020-21) and the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ariz., and is currently on view in the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (October 2021 through April 2022). Other commissions and solo museum shows include Homebody at Andrew Edlin Gallery (2021),The American Future, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Ore. (2018-19); Lift Every Voice and Sing (amerikanskie gorki) at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017-2018); Empire State Works in Progress (2017) at the Whitney Museum of American Art; No Space Hidden (Shelter) at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017-2018); and Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See The Stars at The Contemporary, Baltimore (2016); among others. Recent group shows have been held at Pioneer Works (2021); National Museum of Women in Arts (2018); Socrates Sculpture Park (2016); Sculpture Center (2014); El Museo del Barrio (2011, 2014); CAMH (2014), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2013), The 55th Venice Biennale (2013), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012, 2014), ICA, Philadelphia (2012), the New Museum (2012), and the Stedelijk Museum (2011).
DeVille was a 2018 United States Artists Fellow and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant recipient. She was the Chuck Close/Henry W and Marion T Mitchell Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome 2017-2018. DeVillle received an OBIE for design (2015), a 2015 Creative Capital grantee, 2014-15 fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient.
DeVille teaches in the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and at Yale School of Art. She curated The African’s Experience in America, the work of Biko at 601 Artspace, New York, which is on view through November 14, 2021. DeVille received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology. DeVille was born in New York and works in the Bronx.
- Read the New York Times article on Deville's work Light of Freedom.
- Learn about Deville's work highlighted in the Abstraction and Social Critique exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Chicago, in 2021.
- Learn more about the artist at https://art21.org/artist/abigail-deville/
Deville visits Dickinson through the Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program. The Sylvia J. Smith Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 2009 to complement the mission of the Department of Art & Art History. To date, the program has brought 12 national and international artists to campus to make artwork, engage with students and contribute to the creative culture at Dickinson during six- to eight-week residencies. The program is made possible through the gracious support of Sylvia J. Smith, a Dickinson trustee and member of the class of 1973.
Further information
- Location: Weiss 235
- Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Cost: Free