Michael Abel Deng 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.
Abel Deng is Chief Design Officer at Homer and co-founder of Abel Nile New York, LLC (ANY), a New York City–based office that synthesizes structure, materials, culture, organizations, and media into architectural projects.
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).
