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Abigail DeVille

She // Her // Hers

Installation Artist

Bronx, New York

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Photo by Melissa Blackall.

Abigail DeVille is a site-specific installation artist who exhibits across the United States and Europe. DeVille received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the 2014-15 fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the 2015 Creative Capital grant, and the 2015 OBIE Award for Design. DeVille is the 2017-18 Chuck Close Henry W. and Marion T. Mitchell Rome Prize fellow.

DeVille’s work has exhibited as venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Cooper Gallery at Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, to name a few. She has designed sets for theatrical productions at venues such as the Stratford Festival (2014), Harlem Stage (2016), La Mama (2015), JACK (2014-16), and Joe’s Pub (2014).

Donor -This award was generously supported by Shari D. Behnke.

This artist page was last updated on: 12.31.2024

Artwork by Abigail DeVille.

MidSummer Event Horizon by Abigail DeVille, 2014.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork by Abigail DeVille.

MidSummer Event Horizon by Abigail DeVille, 2014.

Photo courtesy of the artist.