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Abigail DeVille

Installation Artist

Bronx, New York

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: 07.16.2024

MidSummer Event Horizon, 2014.

MidSummer Event Horizon by Abigail DeVille, 2014.

MidSummer Event Horizon, 2014.

MidSummer Event Horizon by Abigail DeVille, 2014.