Michael Abel Deng (b. 1990, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada) is a painter and architect based in New York City. His paintings explore translation, mistranslation, and the slippages of multicultural encounter, moving between figuration, self-portraiture, and abstraction. He is Chief Design Officer at Homer and co-founder of the architecture practice Abel Nile New York (ANY). His work has been exhibited at YveYANG Gallery and Anonymous Gallery (New York), Amity & Carlyle Packer (Los Angeles), and Biennale Architettura (Venice), as well as Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), X Space (Toronto), Whitehouse (Tokyo), and Nickle Arts Museum (Calgary). He has published in Flash Art, The Brooklyn Rail, LOG, KALEIDOSCOPE, and PIN-UP. He guest-edited Flash Art Volumes with Nile Greenberg and is a Graham Foundation grantee. Abel Deng received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary (2012) and Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto (2016).
Mutt, YveYANG, New York City, USA, 2025 (Solo)
Intelligens, Biennale Architettura, Venice, IT, 2025
Jamais Vu, Anonymous Gallery, New York City, USA, 2024
Who will Build the Ark?, Amity at Carlyle Packer, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
/Correspondence, Whitehouse, Tokyo, JP, 2023
/Correspondence, A83, New York City, USA, 2023
New HQ, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, IT, 2023
Nothing is as Stark as the Body Next to You, AC Repair Co, Toronto, CA, 2016
A Knights Move, Oborn Contemporary, Toronto, CA, 2015
Scheme, Arrangement, Sum, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto, CA, 2015
To be Destroyed, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, CA, 2014
Versioning, X Space Gallery, Toronto, CA, 2014
Phantom Figures, Truck Gallery, Calgary, CA, 2014
Monumental Contradiction, Art Point Gallery and Studio Society, Calgary, CA, 2012 (Solo)
The Other Graduate Show, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, CA, 2012
"Texas 2025,” Rice University, 2025
“On Value,” New Rope Chair, ETH Zürich, 2023
“ANY: FLIPPER,” Student Lecture Series, The Cooper Union, 2022
“Interdisciplinarity,” Salon Series Lecture, Princeton University, 2021