Abigail Severance

Abigail Severance is a Los Angeles-based artist making films and other images about nostalgia, flawed history, and queer thought. Her work has shown at Sundance, The Broad Museum Los Angeles, Studio Museum Harlem, HBO, MIX LGBT Festival, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among other venues. Her work was included in the 2018 Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA and her first short “Pump” (1999) was featured in the New Queer Cinema retrospective at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Abigail has received a Fulbright, a Film Independent fellowship, and a CalArts Research & Practice Grant for “We the Devoted,” a near-future narrative about borders and labor made collectively with its ensemble cast. She is currently at work on a new video & photo series “You, An Archive,” which draws together radical queer imaginaries and the intelligence of natural systems (forests, glaciers, oceans). She has been faculty at the CalArts School of Film/Video since 2009, where she also served as Dean 2019-2024.