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