Abby Cipar is a multidisciplinary artist, arts advocate, curator, and wage laborer with roots in Northeast Ohio. Cipar received a BFA from The University of Akron (2021) and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2024). In addition to other notable honors, Cipar was a 2023 recipient of the Stewart Thomson Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the 2019 Folk Charitable Foundation Venice Biennale Travel Award. Their work was included in Cleveland’s 2022 CAN Triennial, and they have exhibited at The Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), PLAYGROUND DETROIT (Detroit, Michigan), Piano Craft Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts), River House Arts (Toledo, Ohio), FAVA Gallery (Oberlin, Ohio), Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, Tennessee), and The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, Ohio), among others. In addition to numerous private collections, their work is in the care of Emily Davis Gallery (Akron, Ohio) and Akron Children’s Hospital (Akron, Ohio). Projects for 2025 include co-curating FRESH: Soft Offerings at Summit Artspace (Akron, Ohio), solo shows at The McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, Ohio) and 934 Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), and a residency at Akron Soul Train (Akron, Ohio).