Artist Bio

Abed Elmajid Shalabi is a US-based Palestinian artist. In his sculpture practice, he incorporates ceramics, cast plaster, concrete, found objects, wood, and aluminum to poetically dissect symbols and destabilize our relationship to mass-produced objects. Abed has been a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington DC (2022-2024); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (2024, 2020); and Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY (2023). His works have been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at C24 Gallery, New York; SARA'S, New York; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; the OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA; and CCA: Tel Aviv-Yafo. He has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME (2022) and ISCP, New York (2024). Shalabi earned his BFA in Fine Arts from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (2019) and studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He earned his MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2021).