Michael Abel Deng

Michael Abel Deng is co-founder and principal of Abel Nile New York, an architecture and design practice working across buildings, exhibitions, and criticism. Recent work includes the Shell House in Ontario, the Stone House in California, the Edith Farnsworth Visitor Center in Illinois, and OBG Headquarters in New York City.

Abel Nile New York was recognized by AIA New York as New Practices New York (2020–2023). In 2025, Abel Nile New York guest-edited Flash Art Volumes 002: Crisis Formalism, a dossier examining the formal implications of economic, environmental, and political instability. His writing and research have appeared in LOG, Flash Art, PIN–UP, KALEIDOSCOPE, Disc, Rumor Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has presented work at the 2025 Venice Biennale, Rice University, ETH Zürich, Princeton University, The Cooper Union, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and Harvard University.

Alongside his architectural practice, Michael Abel Deng is the Chief Design Officer of Homer and maintains a painting practice whose work has been exhibited at YveYANG Gallery and Anonymous Gallery in New York, and Amity & Carlyle Packer in Los Angeles. He is a Graham Foundation grantee, holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto, and previously worked at MOS Architects, Khoury Levit Fong, and MILLIØNS.