abbey lakey
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@abbeylakey

Education

2020-2021 Studio Art Certificate; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2018-2020 BFA in Painting; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2016-2018 Memphis College of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Have Your Cake and Devour It, Loo Loo Presents, Philadelphia, PA

New Works, Function Coffee Labs, Philadelphia, PA

2022 Selected Works, Function Coffee Labs, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2025 Placing the Unplaceable, The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA

Two’s A Crowd, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

2024 15 Year Birthday Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Perennial Visions, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Constellations: Animation Ensemble, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

2022 Salon, The Head and the Hand, Philadelphia, PA

2021 Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Distant Memory, Past Present Projects of Culture Trust, Philadelphia, PA

Dumb: Brute Reason, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Art-making in Pandemic Times, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2020 Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2019 Selected Works, Gallery 8, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2018 The Female Form, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

Me Too, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN

Art in the Park, Rust Hall Gallery, Memphis, TN

Grrl Fest, Hitone, Memphis, TN

Fort Douglass Art Salon, Fort Douglas Art Gallery, Memphis, TN

Collaborations

2025 Exquisite Corpse: Philly Life, Philadelphia Animation Ensemble

NEA Grant Artist Residency Project at Brandywine Workshop and Archive, assisting Xenobia Bailey, Maya Freelon, and Adebumni Gbadebo

2024 Behind the Red Moon, El Anatsui installation, Philadelphia Museum of Art

NEA Grant Artist Residency Project at Brandywine Workshop and Archive, assisting Syd Carpenter

Curatorial

2025 HELL: In / Out, Galleria Tofani, 2025

Run to the Light!, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 2025

Teaching Experience

2026 Instructor, Plant to Paper, Paper Think Tank
Instructor, Sheet forming with Inclusions, Longwood Gardens
Instructor, Intro to Western Papermaking, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2025 Instructor, Sheet forming with Inclusions, Glen Foerd

2024 Instructor, Intro to Sheet Forming and Pulp Painting, DaVinci Art Alliance

2019 Teacher’s Assistant, Painting Composition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Awards

2025 Leeway Foundation Grant

2022 Leeway Foundation Grant

2021 Gross McCleaf Prize

2020 J. Henry Scheidt Travel Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Eleanor S. Gray Memorial Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Dean’s Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

President’s Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2018 Portfolio Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2017 Dean’s Scholarship; Memphis College of Art

2016 Portfolio Scholarship; Memphis College of Art

Last Updated 24.10.37