SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and CURATORIAL/SOCIAL PRACTICE

2025

Co-curator and researcher for Masquerade exhibition with Kraftmade, Cincu, Romania

Curator, Sedimental Edition 01, Lost in Fiber Library, New York, NY

2024

Walking Libraries, Oblong @ Design Go, Romanian Design Week, Bucharest, Romania

Curatorial advisor/researcher/writer, Carnivalesque exhibition with Kraftmade, Cincu, Romania

Conversions, site-specific environmental history project, Hudson Valley, NY

2023

Site specific historic preservation research for the cultural space, Stalla AD, Sovicille, Italy

2022

Walking Libraries for Incantatio Mundi, Romanian Creative Week, Iași, Romania

Fragmentary Blue, curatorial advisor, Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT

2020

Walking Libraries (2016-2020), site-specific platforms, U.S. and Europe

Art in Place: Self Isolation (online exhibition), Standard Space Gallery, Sharon, CT

2019

In the Steps of Folly Cove, Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Open Studio with Sienna Road, curated by Laurel Nuzzo, New York, NY

2018

Folly Cove Follow Up, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Kraftmaking the Future, Casa Memoriala Matei Corvin, Cluj, Romania

Earthtones/LA, Poketo Project Space, curator and materials exhibitor, Los Angeles, CA

2017

In the Steps of Folly Cove, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Becoming: 30 Hotchkiss Artists, Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT

2016

Friends of Fire, Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT

2015

Toolshedding, Weaving Hand Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (site specific interior installation)

Tumbleweed Colony/NYC x Design, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (collaborative installation)

2013

Unraveling a Tumbleweed, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA (performance)

2012

Nature is Breathing, Silo Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania

Fete for the Senses, site specific platforms, New York, NY (collaborative performance)

2011

Knitted, Knotted, Netted, curated by Hildreth York, The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Good Work, curated by Tali Weinberg, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

2010

(Re)Fashioning Fiber: New Horizons in Environmental Art , curator, Greenspaces, New York, NY

2009

Azumith; Writing on the Walls, curated by Miriam Sagan, The LAND gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Opening a Book: Enviro-Artist Books, The LAND gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2008

Urban Fiber Flotsam, Conflux Arts Festival, Center for Architecture, New York, NY (performance)

2007

Fiber National, curated by Gail Brown, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

On Ice, curated by Kathy Bruce, Williams Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2006

Workmanship of Risk, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

United Nations Environment Programme, Art Into Action, World Environment Day, Algiers, Algeria

2005

Exquisite, curated by Lynn Gamwell, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY

About-From-For-Nature, Yatoo-i, Korean Nature Artists Association, Gongju, South Korea

2004

Pattern and Decoration, curated by Joyce Kozloff, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Sense of Place, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2003

Revolve: New Work by Gallery Artists, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA  

The Regular Paper Show, Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell, NM

2000

Abigail Doan: Recent Works on Paper, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY 

Cleavage, Luther Bean Museum, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO

Summer Selections, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Digital 99, Brooks Engineering Design Center, Cooper Union, New York, NY

ASCI Digital 99, The New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY

Cleavage, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

Ninth Annual New Images Exhibition, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

1997

Digital Elements, St. John’s University Gallery, Queens, NY

1989

Haeckel’s Models: Drawing Thesis, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

ARTIST TALKS/RESIDENCIES/TEACHING

2023

Artist/Curator in Residence, Stalla AD, Sovicille, Italy

2021

Artist in Residence, The Mastheads Day Residency Program, Pittsfield, MA

2020

Artist in Residence, The Mastheads Day Residency Program, Pittsfield, MA

2019

Artist in Residence, The Jennings Hotel, Zumwalt Prairie, Oregon

2018

Visiting Artist/Critic, Parsons School of Design/Textiles Department

Visiting Artist/Critic, Kraftmaking the Future, Cincu, Romania

2017

Visiting Artist/Critic, School of Design/Pratt Institute

Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) with Lenka Clayton

2016

Visiting Artist/Critic, Artist-in-Residence Program, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Artist/Critic, California College of the Arts, Textiles Department, Oakland, CA

2015

Visiting Artist/Critic, Artist-in-Residence Program, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Artist/Critic, Parsons School of Design, Fashion/Textiles Department, New York, NY

2014 

Make, in conjunction with Judith Scott – Bound and Unbound, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2013

Visiting Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, Textiles Department, Oakland, CA

2012

Visiting Artist/Installation, Vogue Knitting Live, New York, NY

2011

Visiting Artist Lecture, Fashion/Textiles, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2008

Artist in Residence, Conflux Arts Festival, New York, NY

2006

Artist in Residence, The LAND/an art site, Mountainair, NM

1996-99

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Drawing/Design, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS

2025

Unmasking tradition: The cross-cultural dialogue of MASQUERADE in Cincu (Transylvania), Business Review, February 2025

2024

Booksmart with Odette Blum, Selvedge Magazine: Hand to Hand, issue 118, April 2024

2022

A View from the Easel, Hyperallergic, September 2022

Home, Again, Table Magazine, Spring 2022 edition

2021

Sounds in their Studios: Abigail Doan, PRAIRIE Journal, June 2021

Floating Vessels: A Wave Of Responses To Environmental Spaces, Materials And Observations, Plural Magazine, April 2021

2020

Walking Libraries (2016-2020 documentation), Moowon journal, story no. 68, January 2020

Ecoartspace Journal, featured artist with Walking Libraries profile, August 2020

2019

Walking Libraries profile with Kraftmade/Transylvania, Harper’s Bazaar Romania, September 3, 2019

2017

Becoming: 30 Hotchkiss Artists, Happening in the Hills, review by Daphne Anderon Deeds, 2017

2016

Friends of Fire: Ceramic Art,  The Berkshire Edge, November 1, 2016

2015

Interview on Tumbleweeds and Urban Seeds, Pratt Institute’s BFDA accelerator, April 28, 2015

2012:

Genius Loci: The Land NM Artist Residency, HAND/EYE Magazine, volume 07, Spring 2012

Fete for the Senses, Trendtablet, review by Rhiannon Silver Gilmore

2011

MC Trendbook, artist/studio profile, Marie Claire South Africa, June 2011 

2010

When Fiber Art Meets the Hot Fudge Sunday, The New York Times, NY Regional Arts review by Benjamin Genocchio, January 8, 2010

EcoVision edition | Surface Design Journal, Spring 2010

(Re)Fashioning Fiber: New Horizons in Environmental Art and Fashion, Planet Journal, review by Nika Knight, May 19, 2010

2007

Fiber National Exhibition Catalogue, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

On Ice catalogue, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Lacemaking and Placemaking, in conjunction with the exhibition, Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, Knit Knit 7

Returning to and from THE LAND: Connectivity and Crafting Residency, Landviews Journal  of Landscape, Art, & Design, Spring 2007

EDUCATION

1989 Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY, BFA, summa cum laude

1984 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Additional coursework with the Center for Book Arts (NYC), Magnum Photos (online), Parsons School of Design/The New School, and The International Center of Photography

Certifications: Biomimicry Life Principles and Masterclass Certificates (2023); Fashion Values Coursework, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London

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