ABBY CHENEY
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2016-2017
  • CV
b. 1991, Baltimore, Maryland.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


Abby Cheney explores how we assign value to objects based on emotion through her sculptures and paintings made from discarded cardboard, paper pulp, and found materials. Taking cues from household appliances, decorative trends, and domestic spaces, her works are humorous and precarious representations of how our homes and possessions become personal.

​Instagram: abby__cheney

EDUCATION
2018  MFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2014  BA in Studio Art and English, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020  Container, Chashama Space to Present, 320 W 23rd Street, New York, NY
2018   Precarious Materials, Stueben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020  This Must Be the Place, 601artspace, New York, NY
2020  Settle In, HERE Arts, New York, NY
2019  Reused and Recycled, Site: Brooklyn, NY
2019  Slime Friendz, The Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
2019  Hidden in Plain Sight, UnSpace, Brooklyn, NY
2019  Many Faces, Living Gallery Outpost, New York, NY
2018  Hypnagogia, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY
2018  Watch It Burn, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018  Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself, The Cigar Factory, Queens, NY
2018 .Boiling Point, The Boiler|Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2018  Object Lessons, The Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2017  All In, The Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2017  Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2017  Novelty Fun Pack, Pratt Studio Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2017  Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017  Nasty Women Art Exhibition, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York
2016  IPCNY PrintFest, New York, NY
2016  Potluck, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2015  Under $500, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
2014  Only the Lonely, Red Z Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio


RESIDENCIES
2021  Byrdcliffe Artist Residency (forthcoming)
2019  Vermont Studio Center Residency
2018 .Trestle Artist Residency
2017  Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan 
​2016  Cope NYC, Brooklyn, New York

PRESS
2020  Botanicus Fantasticus, Fox Galleries
2019  "Shimmer Secrets at Humble Bloom Collective", A Woman's Thing Magazine
2019  "Meet Some of Pratt's Most Talented Artists", Artspace
2019   A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists, Kenyon College
© 2020 ABBY CHENEY.
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2016-2017
  • CV