b. 1995
Education
2017 BFA — Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Institute of Contemporary Art, Chattanooga, TN
2024 Workshop of the World, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA
2023 The People’s Cathedral, Workers Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Wireless, Galeria Plato, Évora, Portugal
Archive of the A.I.R., Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Arte Laguna, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
2022 Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Place + Making, Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA (two-person exhibition with Emily Carris-Duncan)
2021 Personal Belonging, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Google Street View Show, Gallery 3E, New York, NY
Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Common Threads, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Fever Dream, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
77th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
Soft Monolith, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two-person exhibition with Pony Silk)
2017 116th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
More Delicate Things, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
Residencies
2023 Worker’s Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
MacDowell Winter Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
2022 The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
2021 Glen Foerd, Philadelphia, PA
Grants & Honors
2023 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2022 Emerging Artist Cohort, American Craft Council
2018 Seed Grant, Drexel University
Press
2024 Burnaway: Weaving Work: On the Tapestries of Tabitha Arnold by Lina Alam
Masina: “These Hands”: Artist Depicts the Workers’ Struggle at Recently Unionized Volkswagen Plant
2023 BOMB Magazine: Tabitha Arnold Interviewed by Michelle Millar Fisher
The New York Review of Books: Words Into Images, Leanne Shapton
mr x stitch: Tabitha Arnold - Future Artefacts, Selina Pearce
Hamilton City Magazine: Labour’s New Stories, Stephanie Vegh
2022 Spring Magazine: The Year in Radical Arts, Allie Young
Hyperallergic: Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2022, Billy Anania
Boston MFA Contemporaries Newsletter: Hello from DCA Newsletter #63: Tabitha Arnold Artist Interview
Forbes: Take Me To Church, Tom Teicholz
The East Hampton Star: Much Ado-ing at The Church, Mark Segal
27 East: Tabitha Arnold And Margarita Cabrera At The Church
Jacobin Magazine: Tabitha Arnold: Art Should Not Be an Investment Vehicle For Rich People, Rachel Himes
Working People Podcast: Tabitha Arnold, Maximillian Alvarez
The Working Artist Podcast: amplifying the unfair end of capitalism with Tabitha Arnold, Yixuan Pan
Past Present Projects Magazine: Rug Punching and Labor Politics: A Conversation with Tabitha Arnold, Heather Moqtaderi
2021 Hyperallergic: Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest, Billy Anania
Hidden City Philadelphia: Living Large on the Delaware River, Stacia Freedman
The Philadelphia Partisan: Textile Art, Labor Organizing, and Socialism: An Interview with Tabitha K. Arnold, Nico Millman & Lauren Troop
Disobedient Magazine: 'Whose Streets’ and 'People's Art’, Sabrina Sigler
2020 Gamasutra: ALT.CTRL.GDC Showcase: Our Sutured City, Joel Couture
2018 Broad Street Review: Placing Us in Corpus: Woodmere Art Museum Annual 77th Juried Exhibition, Helen Walsh
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly Artists' Big, Urgent Show at the Woodmere Looks Out From the Rowhouse to the World, Thomas Hine
Publications
2021-2024 Editorial Print Covers, Dissent Magazine
2024 Featured Article, These Hands, Triangle Free Press
2023 Print Cover Feature, MQR Issue 62:4 (Transversions), Michigan Quarterly Review
Print Feature, “The Fight For Fair Wages,” Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books
Digital Feature, “Required Reading,” Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hyperallergic
Edition 2, Left Cultures Magazine
Print Feature, Fall 2023, Sixth Finch
2022 Editorial Print Cover, Issue 11, the tiny Magazine
Print Feature, Abolition Feminisms Volume 2: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State, Haymarket Books
No. 1, Past Present Projects Magazine
2021 Print Feature, “Striketober”: Hopes and Realities, The Brooklyn Rail
Editorial Print Cover, PTO, Jobs With Justice
Issue 2, Lux Magazine
Issue 2, The Shoutflower
Activism, Street Fight Radio
2019 Issue One, Recenter Press
Apiary X, Apiary Magazine
Lectures
2024 (June 8) Roundtable Speaker, Hand To Mouth, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Featured Artist, Tender Loving Care Book Club, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Panelist, To Make The Revolution Irresistible, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Talk, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Featured Issue Launch Speaker, Transversions, Michigan Quarterly Review
Artist Talk, Workers Art & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Visiting Artist, A Material History of Philadelphia, Drexel University
2022 Visiting Artist, Representing Appalachia, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Artist Talk, Textiles & Tea, Handweavers Guild of America
Visiting Artist, Fiber Structures, Metropolitan State University
Artist Talk, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Guest Juror Talk, Form, Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
Featured Speaker, CraftNOW First Friday Exhibitions Preview
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland, OH