b. 1995
Education
2017 BFA — Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Gospel of the Working Class
Field Projects, New York, NY (September 4 - October 4)
ICA Chattanooga, University of Tennessee (January 18 - March 6)
2024 Workshop of the World, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia
2023 The People’s Cathedral, Workers Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Group & Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 The Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Body is a Drum, the Voice a Song, the Soul a Fire, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Work in Progress, Dom Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
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 Place + Making, Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA (two-person exhibition with Emily Carris-Duncan)
Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
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 Soft Monolith, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two-person exhibition with Pony Silk)
Common Threads, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Fever Dream, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
77th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
2017 116th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
More Delicate Things, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
Residencies
2025 Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
Ucross, WY
Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2023 Worker’s Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2022 The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
2021 Glen Foerd, Philadelphia, PA
Awards
2025 The Southern Prize for Visual Art, South Arts
Tennessee State Fellowship, South Arts
Emerging Writing Fellowship, Glen Foerd
2024 Exhibition Support Grant, Ford Foundation
2022 Emerging Artist Cohort, American Craft Council
2018 Seed Grant, Drexel University
Press
2025 Interview Magazine: Tabitha Arnold’s Punch Needle Tapestries Are Not For Scabs, Douglas Corzine
The New York Times: What to See in Galleries in September, Jillian Steinhauer
Wall Street Journal: Tabitha Arnold and Tamara Kostianovsky: Weaving the Fabric of a Medium's Future, Brian P. Kelly
Voice-Tribune: Threading the Needle: A Conversation with Visual Artist Tabitha Arnold, Kevin Murphy Wilson
The Chief: Art for labor’s sake: Union organizer’s tapestries depict workers’ struggles, Duncan Freeman
Hyperallergic: Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class, Leia Genis
ICA Chattanooga: Work, Embedded, Sarah Jaffe
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Chattanooga artist Tabitha Arnold creates tapestries chronicling city’s labor history, Sam Still
Design Milk: Take 5: A Bold Bangle, Red-Hot Chairs, Stained Glass Sculptures + More, Aria Lee
2024 Burnaway: Weaving Work: On the Tapestries of Tabitha Arnold, Lina Alam
Labor Heritage Power Hour: We Can Move Mountains, interviewed by Elise Bryant
Chattanooga Times Free Press: The German Way, Joan McClane
Masina: “These Hands”: Artist Depicts the Workers’ Struggle at Recently Unionized Volkswagen Plant
List Gallery at Swarthmore College: Workshops of the World Unite!, Kathy M. Newman
List Gallery at Swarthmore College: Tabitha Arnold’s Political Tool, Tess Wei
2023 BOMB Magazine: Tabitha Arnold Interviewed, 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
The Workers’ Art and Heritage Centre: Care/Work: Tabitha Arnold’s Art and Labour, Michelle Millar Fisher
2022 Jacobin Magazine: Tabitha Arnold: Art Should Not Be an Investment Vehicle For Rich People, Rachel Himes
Hyperallergic: Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2022, Billie Anania
Forbes: Take Me To Church, Tom Teicholz
Past Present Projects Magazine: Rug Punching and Labor Politics: A Conversation with Tabitha Arnold, Heather Moqtaderi
Spring Magazine: The Year in Radical Arts, Allie Young
The East Hampton Star: Much Ado-ing at The Church, Mark Segal
27 East: Tabitha Arnold And Margarita Cabrera At The Church
Working People Podcast: Tabitha Arnold, interviewed by Maximillian Alvarez
The Working Artist Podcast: amplifying the unfair end of capitalism with Tabitha Arnold, interviewed by Yixuan Pan
2021 Hyperallergic: Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest, Billie 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
2025 Exhibition Review, Songs of Enclosure and Exclosure, Past Present Projects
Print Cover Features, Dissent Magazine — since 2021
Print Cover Feature, Itinerant Songs, Terra Oliveira
Set Their Hearts on Fire with Michael DeForge, Labor Heritage Power Hour
Electrify, Amplify, Organize with Sam Wallman, Labor Heritage Power Hour
Is ‘Severance’ a show about unions? with Rachel Mulvihill, Labor Heritage Power Hour
2024 Print Cover Feature, Issue 8, the Anarchist Review of Books
2023 Print Cover Feature, 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
Print Feature, Edition 2, Left Cultures Magazine
2022 Print Feature, Abolition Feminisms Volume 2, Haymarket Books
2021 Print Feature, No. 1, Past Present Projects Magazine
Print Feature, Striketober: Hopes and Realities, Marianne Garneau, The Brooklyn Rail
Print Feature, Issue 2, Lux Magazine
Print Feature, Issue 2, The Shoutflower
2019 Print Feature, Issue One, Recenter Press
Print Feature, Apiary X, Apiary Magazine
Lectures
2025 Artist Talk, ICA Chattanooga
Visiting Artist, History of Craft, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
2024 Featured Speaker, Gamaliel Network: Race and Power in America, Detroit, MI
Featured Speaker, Jobs With Justice: Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award Ceremony, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Artist, Contemporary Art in Chattanooga, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Featured Speaker, Crossroads of Resistance, Southern Labor Studies Association, Chattanooga, TN
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 Speaker, Transversions Issue Launch, 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, 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
Dom Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland, OH