CV
EDUCATION
2025: MFA candidate in progress, Department of Arts, Washington State University, Pullman WA.
2002: BA Fine and Applied Arts, Upper Division, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria.
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
2024: College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Award.
2024: Sidney D. Siler Graduate Fellowship in Fine Arts.
2023: Sidney D. Siler and Claude Norine Nelson Graduate Fellowships.
2023: Mary Elizabeth and Jack W. Howard, Sr. Endowed Scholarship.
2023: High Five Awards, Department of Art, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2019: 3rd Prize Winner, Visual Arts Competition, “They Create: Nigerian Women in Arts’. Spanish Embassy, Nigeria.
2016: 2nd Prize Winner, Chinese Ambassadors Drawing Cup Competition, China Cultural Centre, Abuja-Nigeria.
EXHIBITIONS ATTENDED
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024: Memoirs, SEB Gallery, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2020: Rising Through the Shadows, Café De Vie & Agama Art, Abuja-Nigeria.
Online Exhibitions
2021: Emerging Nigerian Female Artists Art Auction, Calabar Gallery. NY.
2020: Therapeutic Art & Mental Health Resources, Virtual Art Exhibition with US Embassy, Abuja-Nigeria.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023: Embrace Equity: Illustrating Invisible Labor, IWD - Dept. of Art, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2022: EVE, Aworanka, and GAIA Africa Lagos-Nigeria.
2021-2022: The Invincible Hands, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos-Nigeria.
2018: Invited International Artist, Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, Pensacola-FL.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023: Embrace Equity, Illustrating Invisible Labor, Dept. of Fine Arts, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2021: Celebrating Womanhood, Nigeria Health Watch, Thought Pyramid Art Gallery, Abuja-Nigeria.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2024: Collaboration with Department of Health Promotions, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2023: Collaboration with Women’s Center and International Programs on International Women’s Day Exhibition.
Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
SELECTED WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS
2024: Irvin Villalva, Memoirs, The Daily Evergreen, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
https://dailyevergreen.com/173904/life/memoirs-wsu-master-of-fine-arts-candidate-exhibits-work-at-seb-
gallery/
2021: Ovwe Medeme, Calabar Gallery honors Abigail Nnaji. Independent News. Abuja-Nigeria
https://independent.ng/calabar-gallery-honours-abigail-nnaji-announces-art-residency/
2019: Papercutting an adventure to self-expression, Daily Trust, Abuja-Nigeria.
https://dailytrust.com/papercutting-an-adventure-to-self-expression-abigail-nnaji/
2018: Invited International Artist for the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, Pensacola-FL.
https://www.ggaf.org/archive/invited-international-artist-2018
2018: Mike Roberts, GGAF Int’l Artist from Nigeria papers event, Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola-FL.
https://www.pnj.com/story/entertainment/2018/11/02/great-gulfcoast-arts-festival-international-artist-
nigeria-papers-event/1840384002/
2018: Pensacola, Ballinger Publishing, Issuu. Pg. 14-15. Pensacola-FL
https://issuu.com/ballingerpublishing/docs/pensacola_magazine_december_2018_we
2017: For Creative Girls, Ten contemporary artists you should be following. Lagos-Nigeria
https://forcreativegirls.com/10-contemporary-african-artists-you-should-be-following/
RADIO/TELEVISION
2018: Sue Straughn, Dayside Live TV program, Wear ABC 3, Pensacola-FL.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0fCelKl6R/
2018: Sandra Averhart, GGAF welcomes International Artist from Nigeria, WUWF Radio, Pensacola-FL.
https://www.wuwf.org/local-arts/2018-11-01/great-gulfcoast-arts-festival-welcomes-international-artist-
from-nigeria
2022: Seattle Alfonso Valvida, Interview with Abby. Washington State University Bilingual Reporter, Pullman-WA.
https://youtu.be/pPXxk9QuSL4
PRESENTATIONS/ARTIST TALK
2022: Artist talk for Introduction to Art History, Art 101, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2020: Virtual Artist Talk-Kala Vishari, International Art webinar with Go Countercultures, South India.
2018: Presentation on Nigerian Art & Paper Cutting Technique at Pensacola High School Art Class, Pensacola-FL.
2018: Presentation on Nigeria and Nigerian Art at Pensacola State College, Pensacola-FL.
2016: Chinese Paper Cutting Seminar, China Cultural Centre, Abuja-Nigeria.
TRAINING/WORKSHOP
2019: Basic steps of Drawing and Sculpture Workshop, Female Artists Association of Nigeria, in collaboration
with British Council Abuja-Nigeria.
2016: Paper Cutting and Traditional Folk Handicraft Production. Yangling, Xian-China.
COLLECTIONS
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos-Nigeria.
Embassy of Spain Residence, Abuja-Nigeria.
COMMISSIONS
2019: Private Mural project at Sanstonz Consulting Limited, Abuja-Nigeria.
2016: Portrait Commission at House of Representatives, National Assembly Complex, Abuja-Nigeria.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 to-date: Graduate Assistant at the Department of Arts, Washington State University, Pullman-WA.
2013: Full-time Studio Artist.
2015 to-date: Coordinating member, Female Artists Association of Nigeria, Abuja-Nigeria.
PUBLICATION
2022: A Siege of Today: The Era of ICT and New Media by Dr. Donald Agumenu and Emeka Anuforo (Cover Art)
2017: The Art of Nigeria Women by C. Ben Bosah (pgs. 174 – 175).
2015: Shades of Unity: Women Make it Happen. Institut Francais, Abuja-Nigeria (Cover Art).
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN). Nigeria.
Association of Professional Creative Artists and Designers (APCAD). Nigeria.