Abbey Lee Sarver
1985 Oil City, PA
lives & works in Morongo Valley, CA
Education
2016 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2009 BFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA & Rome, Italy
Exhibitions
2022 Ancient Ocean Arcade, High Desert Test Sites at Sky Village Swap Meet, Yucca Valley, CA
Land Line, Quality Coins / Yucca Valley, CA
Wasteland, Bezerk Productions, Yucca Valley, CA
2021 Seraphim Dream: Shadow Pines, Mail Order Show / Los Angeles, CA
Gem Glyphs, High Desert Test Sites, Web-based / Joshua Tree, CA
1-800-Heal-Yeah, Kwonyin’s, Morongo Valley, CA
2020 Critters, Glass Outhouse Gallery, 29 Palms, CA
Seraphim Dream, Los Angeles, CA
Swannatopia, Swannanoa, NC
2019 Whiz Confluxx Climaxx, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Images From the Cave, Lamar Dodd School of Art Area of Photography, Athens, GA
2017 Quicksand Fetish, Bust Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Transparent Sinkholes, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 To: Pluto, Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA
Reagan Babies, Ms Barbers, Los Angeles, CA
Oversharing in the Soups, Solo Exhibition, Magic Pictures Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pallet Cleanser, VCU MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Speed Show, Beijing, China
2013 Magic Pictures @ Vox Populi, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Zine of the Month Retrospective, Booklyn Artist Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Search Results, Pony Club Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 The Burning Leaves of Autumn, Krishna Krishna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A/S/L?, Wurhaus, Austin, TX
Collaborative New Works with Gwendolyn Kurtz, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011 We're All Connected, 40th Street AIRSpace Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Reality-based Lifestyles/ Fucked for Life: Insurmountable Debt, UArts, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Seasonal Affective Disorder: Shop till You Drop, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Performances
2021 Whiz World Live, Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
2016 Johan & Kirsti, Guest Artist Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2013 Death Could Be Your Golden Boy, Vox Populi, Phaildelphia, PA
2012 Choose Your Own Adventure Powerpoint Symposium, Cha-Cha-Razzi, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Important Information for You to Remember, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Art Fairs
2023 Quality Coins at Intersect Palm Springs
Residencies
2017 California Clay Mining Bureau, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Hinkley, CA
2015 Ghost Estate, New York, NY
Publications
2024 Who Owns Betty B.?, collaborative booklet with Katrina Ohstrom, self-published, Morongo Valley, CA
2022 Whiz World: Extraction, cover art, published by A Magic Mountain, Oakland, CA
Land Line Gazette, co-editor, issues I-III, Quality Coins, Yucca Valley, CA
2021 Whiz World: Mutations, contributor & editor, published by A Magic Mountain, Oakland, CA
2020 Glyphin 2020, published & edited by Refulgent Sepulchre, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Whiz World: Hellmouth, published by Whiz World, Headlands, CA
Whiz World: issue 3, (contributor) published by Whiz World, Headlands, CA
2018 Whiz World: issue 2, (contributor) published by Whiz World, Headlands, CA
2015 RIP Ughhhhhhhh4u, Self-published in Richmond, VA
Promethazine, issue 2. (contributor) Brooklyn, NY
2014 OK, Self-published in Richmond, VA
2013 NO FILTER, self-published in Philadelphia, PA
2012 Pix Or it Didn't Happen, self-published in Austin, TX
Cool Spells for Extreme Teens, Monofonus Press, Austin, TX
2011 Interpreting the Holy Mysteries of Her Tribe, self-published in Albuquerque, NM
EverythingisaPyramidScheme.info, Zine of the Month Club by Mark Price, Philadelphia, PA, Collection of Ursinus College
Awards
2015 VCU Arts Graduate Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University
Graduate Arts Travel Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University
2008 Betty-Ann Shema Davis Scholarship, Tyler School of Art
2007 Rome Scholarship, Temple University
Teaching Experiences
2020 Visiting Artist, Digital Foundations, University of CA, Berkeley
2018-2021 High School Art Teacher, Morongo Unified School District
2016 Digital Photography Summer Intensive Instructor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Instructor of record, Photo into Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist: Senior Thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist: Concepts, Virginia Commonwealth University
2015 Instructor of record, Digital Imaging I. Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist: Time Studio. Art Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University
2014 Teaching Assistant: Alternative Process, Virginia Commonwealth University
Teaching Assistant: Sequencing, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist: Time Studio. Art Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist: Maker Jawn, Free Library of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA
2013 Head Instructor, Digital Media Academy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Head Instructor, Art 4 Life. Portland, OR
Head Instructor, Digital Media Academy, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Press/ Commission
2016 The Work of Abbey Lee Sarver, Juxtapoz Magazine
2014 Mixt Ape, Dubb Normal, Cover Art, Museum of Microcassette Art
2012 Running, Films of Colour, Cover Art
2011 Photography of Abbey Lee Sarver, BOOOOOOOM, online