Biography
Abbey Muza uses weaving, drawing, and other media to explore narration, identity, and image-making. In their work, they frequently use archival and historical content and imagery, transforming it into abstract, painterly, handwoven textiles. As a Visiting Artist at Penn State Berks, they are developing a body of artwork based in archival research on the textile industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania and Penn State Berks’ history as the Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute (originally the Educational Department of Textile Machine Works).
They have been an artist in residence at ACRE and Alternative Worksite, and have been a Fulbright France Harriet-Hale Wooley Awardee, a Leroy Neiman Fellow at the Oxbow School of Art, and a Visiting Artist at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. They have shown their work in solo exhibitions at spaces including Tusk, Slow Dance, and the Fondation des États Unis. They have a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They have previously taught at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.