Trey Abdella

Selected Works

Biography

Trey Abdella was born in 1994 in Manassas, Virginia and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2016 and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2019. His artistic production has received international recognition, with recent solo exhibitions at Vito Schnabel Gallery and David Lewis Gallery, both in New York (2023); the X Museum in Beijing, China (2022); and T293 in Rome, Italy (2021; 2019). Selected group exhibitions include Vito Schnabel Gallery & Sotheby's in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, CA (2021); and Nino Mier in Los Angeles, CA (2020). The artist is known for his approach that blends painting, sculpture, and assemblage. A skilled storyteller, Abdella cultivates a fascinating nostalgia in his works, drawing from the trivialities of life and common aspects, electrifying them with a heightened sense of drama and terror. His bold, large-scale works, explicit in illustration and vividly colored, tell a story about the dangers and miseries encountered along the path of the American dream, illustrating its horror and melancholy. Trey Abdella creates hyperrealistic works in mixed media with acrylic, resin, fiberglass, and other materials, incorporating a variety of found objects such as wigs, magic balls, fake flowers, 3D holographic fans, and Christmas decorations, playing with the illusionistic depth of his scenes.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

04.2024
Collater.al
Andare oltre la bidimensione della tela
29.03.2024
Artnet
5. Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze L.A.
26.04.2024
Frieze
Work in Progress: Trey Abdella—“How can I make a painting breathe?”
08.06.2021
JUXTAPOZ
In The Neighborhood: Trey Abdella @ T293, Rome
05.06.2021
ATP DIARY
Trey Abdella, In the Neighborhood | T293, Roma
20.04.2021
NUMÉRO
Empathy with Everyone: Interview with Trey Abdella
04.05.2020
ART OF CHOICE
EXPLORING THE SARDONIC MIND OF TREY ABDELLA
05.02.2020
CREATIVE REVIEW
Trey Abdella’s cartoonish paintings are a textural joy
04.02.2020
JUXTAPOZ
Magic Potion: A Studio Visit with Trey Abdella
29.01.2019
JUXTAPOZ
Trey Abdella's Painted World of Imaginative Mashups
04.01.2021
JUXTAPOZ
Trey Abdella | Still in Detenttion

Trey Abdella – In The Neighborhood

Studio Visit

From his studio in New York, Trey Abdella talks about his second solo exhibition at T293. 'In The Neighborhood' is conceived by the artist as a journey through his childhood and coming of age experiences. The works portray mundane but nonetheless memorable situations that Abdella has lived while growing up in the suburbs of West Virginia. Overworking a job to pay the rent, recording a movie inside the cinema, being crushed down at a concert or reading Playboy at school are simple facts but they inevitably impact on an adolescent’s growth and future memory.
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Education

2019

MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York

2016

BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York

 

 

Solo exhibitions

2023

Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York
David Lewis Gallery, New York

2022

‘Almost Heaven’, X Museum, Beijing, China

2021

‘Mirrors’, Koënig Gallerie, Seoul
‘In the Neighborhood’, T293, Rome
‘Growing Pains’, König Galerie, Berlin

2019
‘Downhill from here’, T293, Rome

 

Group exhibitions

2024

‘Portrait of a Man’, X Museum, Beijing
‘Everyone Loves Picabia’, David Lewis Gallery, New York

2022

‘A Mimetic Theory of Desire’, David Lewis, New York
‘These Days Part II’, Vito Schnabel Gallery, Sotheby’s, Los Angeles

2021

‘The Artist Is Online. Painting and Sculpture in the Digital Age’, König Gallerie, Berlin
‘PT. 2: Invasive Species’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles

2020

‘How Bout Them Apples’, Ross Kramer Gallery, New York
‘To paint is to love again’, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2019

‘Routine Malfunction’, 1969 Gallery, New York
‘Universes 2’, Garage, Amsterdam
‘MFA Thesis Exhibition’, New York Academy of Art, New York
‘In the Between, Lyons’ Wier Gallery, New York
‘Clusterfuck’, Future Gallery, Berlin
‘Representing: Selected Works from Alumni and Faculty of The NYAA’, Garvey|Simon, New York
‘Ultra Bright Beams’, Mount Analogue, Seattle

2018

‘Buy What You Love’, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York
‘While Supplies Last’, Gift Shop Gallery, Seattle
‘Leipzig Residency Exhibition’, New York Academy of Art, New York
‘Order and Chaos: The World Of The Enlightened?’, Jankossen Contemporary, New York
‘The Witching-Other, Temporary Storage Gallery’ @ Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, New York
‘Tribeca Ball’, New York Academy of Art, New York

2017

‘We Have Forgotten The Physical’, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
‘Hokey Pokey’, Image Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2016

‘Pulse Miami Beach’, SVA Galleries, Miami

2015

‘Crime and Punishment’, SVA Galleries, New York