Abigail Raphael Collins (b. New York) uses experimental documentary and video installation to think about how sound and silence shape our access to history. Collins listens from a queer feminist perspective for what gets passed down through generations, beyond what can be spoken: the gaps, silences, and stutters in intimate and historical dialog. Recent exhibitions include REDCAT, A.I.R. Gallery, Union Docs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Pasadena Armory, Marathon Screenings, Torrance Art Museum, and Seoha Gallery. She received a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from UCLA. Collins is the recipient of an NYSCA grant, FCA grant, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and UCIRA grant, as well as residencies at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Shandanken Projects and Soil Factory. Collins currently teaches video art at California Institute of the Arts, and curated an exhibition at LACE on silence and protest.
abigail.r.collins@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA University of California, Los Angeles - Interdisciplinary Studio Art 2012 - 2015
BFA Cooper Union, New York – Fine Art 2004 – 2008
L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts 2007
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
On the Passage of a Few People, CAC Gallery UC Irvine, Irvine
Free Expression and the Inexpressible, A.I.R Gallery, NY
UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects, Union Docs, NY
Examening Masculinities, Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles
Faculty Exhibition, Johnson Museum of Art, NY
I Tilted Over Until It Becomes Horizon, String Room Gallery, NY
To View a Plastic Flower, LAMAG, California
MexiCali Biennial, Armory Center for the Arts, California
Las Chicas, The Sunview Luncheonette, New York
Production Values, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California 2018
Out of Play, Marathon Screenings, Los Angeles, California 2018
Hot Flat, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California 2017
Friction, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2017
Signaling to a Cipher, Field Projects, New York NY 2016
2017, Art Center, Los Angeles, California 2016
White Noise, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2015
Whistle Blowers, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles, California 2014
The Filmballad of Mamadama, Rotterdam International Film Festival (Film organized by Cassandra Guan and Lily Benson) 2014
USC Station Gallery, Los Angeles, CA [solo show] 2013
Invisible Fortress, Project Broom, Seoul, South Korea 2012
Sociological Imagination of the City Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea 2011
Re.Surface, SASG, Seoul, South Korea 2011
Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, South Korea 2011
Restrain, Seoha Gallery, Seoul, South Korea [solo show] 2010
CURATORIAL
Sound Off: Silence and Resistance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2020
Compassion Fatigue, UCLA New Wight Biennial with Damir Avdagic, 2014
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
New York State Council for the Arts Award, 2023
FCA Emergency Grant, 2020
Emerging Curators Program at LACE 2019
UCLA Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship 2015
UCIRA Grant: University of California Institute for Research in the Arts 2014
Resnick Scholarship, UCLA 2014
Hoyt Scholarship, UCLA 2014
Regents Scholarship, UCLA 2012
Residency: Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea 2011
Elliot Lash Memorial Prize for Sculpture, Cooper Union 2009
TEACHING
Video Art at California Institute of the Arts 2019-2024
Visual Semiotics at California Institute of the Arts 2019-2024
Video Art at Pepperdine University 2018-2021
Digital Photography at Pepperdine University 2018-2021
Art History Teaching Assistant at UCLA 2012-2015
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
Artist Talk at CalArts Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series 2021
Artist Talk at UC Riverside MFA program 2021
Presentation and discussion with Arts Research Cooperative students 2018
Artist Talk at UCLA in the Senior Studio for the Department of Fine Art 2018
Artist Talk at University of California Irvine in the Department of Photography 2017
Presentation at Crossing Borders Conference: Politics, Cultural Context, and the Urgency of Space, USC, Los Angeles 2013
Artist Talk at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul South Korea 2012
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hyperallergic - “Tired of Netflix? Stream Experimental Films and Video Art” 2020
Graphite Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts - Issue 5 : Networks, June 2014
Hong Gyeong-Han. “Abigail Collins–Discussions on Spatial Perception” Public Art Magazine, September 2011
Kwon Mee-You. “Sociological Imagination at Art Space Geumcheon” The Korea Times, May 17 2011
