Title

ARTSpeak: Abigail DeVille

Outside Traditions

Contributor Names

DeVille, Abigail, 1981-

Jacquette, Julia

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). School of Art and Design

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Fine Arts Department

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). History of Art Department

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Student-Faculty Corporation

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). School of Liberal Arts

Date

2014-10-24

Description

Artist and FIT alumna Abigail DeVille, speaks on her work at ARTSpeak 2014-2015, presented by the departments of Fine Arts and History of Art, includes a series of events on the theme of Outside Traditions.

Abigail DeVille received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from FIT in 2007. She has exhibited a growing constellation of site-specific installations in the United States and Europe. Her most recent exhibitions include Material Histories at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014); Outside the Lines at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2014); Invisible Men: Beyond the Veil, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (2013); and the Future Generation Art Prize at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Her work has been written about in New York Magazine, The New York Times, and Artforum.com. Ms. DeVille is a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient and is a 2014-15 fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

The event has been made possible in part through funding by the FIT Student-Faculty Corporation, the School of Art and Design, and the School of Liberal Arts.

Introduction by Julia Jacquette.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

DeVille, Abigail, 1981-

Art, Modern

African American art

African American artists

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000060