Yeabsera Tabb

b. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and lives and works in New York, NY

Education

Parsons School of Design | New York, NY 

MFA Fine Arts | 2025

Indiana Wesleyan University | Marion, Indiana

BA | 2021 Design for Social Impact & Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2024 | Tizita | Harrison Center | Indianapolis, IN

2023 | Tezeta | Tube Factory Artspace | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | Pilgrimage | Garfield Park Arts Center | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | Bracing for Hope | Harrison Center Main Gallery | Indianapolis, IN

2021 | Black Presence | 1000 Words Indy Gallery | Indianapolis, IN

2021 | Black Presence | 1920 Gallery | Marion, IN

Group Exhibitions

2025 | Returning | Kellen Gallery | New York, NY

2025 | Common Ground | 25 East Gallery | New York, NY

2024 | BUTTER | The Stutz | Indianapolis, IN

2024 | Empowering Perspectives: A Celebration of Women in Art | Essx NYC | New York, NY

2023 | Material Automatism | 25 East Gallery | New York, NY

2023 | Displaced Landscapes | 25 East Gallery | New York, NY

2023 | BUTTER | The Stutz | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | The Truth of Freedom | New Fields Museum | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | Women of Color | Indianapolis Central Library | Indianapolis, IN

2021 | Synthesis of In-between | Williams Gallery

Two Person Show

2024 | Thread: What Ties Us Together | Parsons School of Design, New York, USA

Publications and Presentations

2025 | Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025, Featured in Hyperallergic Magazine

2025 | Panelist, "Memory by Hand”, Thesis Panel moderated by Andrianna Campnell-Lafleur

2024 | Traversing Time: A Review of Tizita | Sixty Inches From Center | Chicago, IL

2024 | Tizita | Harrison Center | Indianapolis, IN

2023 | Tezeta | Tube Factory Art Space | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | Bracing for Hope | Harrison Center | Indianapolis, IN

Awards, Residencies, and Recognitions

2024 | AICAD Teaching Fellowship Nominee | New York, NY

2023 | APLR Artist in residence at Big Car Collaborative | Indianapolis, IN

2022 | Artists in Resident at Harrison Center| Indianapolis, IN

2021 | Shea Moisture Emerging Visionary Grantee

2021 | On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Fellow | Indiana Arts Commission

Current

Part time Faculty | Parsons School of Design New York, NY

Upcoming

July 2026 | Stove Works Residency | Chattanooga, TN