b. 1995
Education
2017 BFA — Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Gospel of the Working Class, ICA Chattanooga, University of Tennessee
2024 Workshop of the World, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia
2023 The People’s Cathedral, Workers Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Wireless, Galeria Plato, Évora, Portugal
Archive of the A.I.R., Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Arte Laguna, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
2022 Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Place + Making, Past Present Projects, Philadelphia, PA (two-person exhibition with Emily Carris-Duncan)
2021 Personal Belonging, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Google Street View Show, Gallery 3E, New York, NY
Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Common Threads, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
Fever Dream, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
77th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
Soft Monolith, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two-person exhibition with Pony Silk)
2017 116th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
More Delicate Things, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
Residencies
2025 Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
UCross, WY
Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2023 Worker’s Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2022 The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
2021 Glen Foerd, Philadelphia, PA
Grants & Honors
2024 Exhibition Support Grant, Ford Foundation
2023 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2022 Emerging Artist Cohort, American Craft Council
2018 Seed Grant, Drexel University
Publications
2025 Cover Features, Dissent Magazine, 2021-present
Chattanooga artist Tabitha Arnold creates tapestries chronicling city’s labor history, Sam Still, Chattanooga Times Free Press
2024 We Can Move Mountains, Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant, the Labor Heritage Power Hour
Cover Feature, Issue 8, the Anarchist Review of Books
The German Way, Joan McClane, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Weaving Work: On the Tapestries of Tabitha Arnold, Lina Alam, Burnaway
“These Hands”: Artist Depicts the Workers’ Struggle at Recently Unionized Volkswagen Plant, Masina
Workshops of the World Unite!, Kathy M. Newman
Tabitha Arnold’s Political Tool, Tess Wei
2023 Tabitha Arnold Interviewed, Michelle Millar Fisher, BOMB Magazine
Words Into Images, Leanne Shapton, The New York Review of Books
Tabitha Arnold - Future Artefacts, Selina Pearce, mr x stitch
Labour’s New Stories, Stephanie Vegh, Hamilton City Magazine
Care/Work: Tabitha Arnold’s Art and Labour, Michelle Millar Fisher
Print Cover Feature, Issue 62:4 (Transversions), Michigan Quarterly Review
Print Feature, The Fight For Fair Wages, Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books
Digital Feature, Required Reading, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hyperallergic
Print Feature, Edition 2, Left Cultures Magazine
2022 The Year in Radical Arts, Allie Young, Spring Magazine
Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2022, Billy Anania, Hyperallergic
Take Me To Church, Tom Teicholz, Forbes
Much Ado-ing at The Church, Mark Segal, The East Hampton Star
Tabitha Arnold And Margarita Cabrera At The Church, 27 East
Tabitha Arnold: Art Should Not Be an Investment Vehicle For Rich People, Rachel Himes, Jacobin Magazine
Tabitha Arnold, Maximillian Alvarez, Working People Podcast
amplifying the unfair end of capitalism with Tabitha Arnold, Yixuan Pan, The Working Artist Podcast
Rug Punching and Labor Politics: A Conversation with Tabitha Arnold, Heather Moqtaderi, Past Present Projects Magazine
Print Feature, Abolition Feminisms Volume 2, Haymarket Books
2021 Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest, Billy Anania, Hyperallergic
Living Large on the Delaware River, Stacia Freedman, Hidden City Philadelphia
Textile Art, Labor Organizing, and Socialism: An Interview with Tabitha K. Arnold, Nico Millman & Lauren Troop, The Philadelphia Partisan
‘Whose Streets’ and 'People's Art’, Sabrina Sigler, Disobedient Magazine
Print Feature, No. 1, Past Present Projects Magazine
Print Feature, Striketober: Hopes and Realities, Marianne Garneau, The Brooklyn Rail
Print Feature, Issue 2, Lux Magazine
Print Feature, Issue 2, The Shoutflower
2020 Gamasutra: ALT.CTRL.GDC Showcase: Our Sutured City, Joel Couture
2019. Print Feature, Issue One, Recenter Press
Print Feature, Apiary X, Apiary Magazine
2018 Broad Street Review: Placing Us in Corpus: Woodmere Art Museum Annual 77th Juried Exhibition, Helen Walsh
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly Artists' Big, Urgent Show at the Woodmere Looks Out From the Rowhouse to the World, Thomas Hine
Lectures
2024 Featured Speaker, Gamaliel Network: Race and Power in America, Detroit, MI
Featured Speaker, Jobs With Justice: Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award Ceremony, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Artist, Contemporary Art in Chattanooga, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Featured Speaker, Crossroads of Resistance, Southern Labor Studies Association, Chattanooga, TN
Roundtable Speaker, Hand To Mouth, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Featured Artist, Tender Loving Care Book Club, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Panelist, To Make The Revolution Irresistible, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Talk, List Gallery at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Featured Speaker, Transversions Issue Launch, Michigan Quarterly Review
Artist Talk, Workers Art & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Visiting Artist, A Material History of Philadelphia, Drexel University
2022 Visiting Artist, Representing Appalachia, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Artist Talk, Textiles & Tea, Handweavers Guild of America
Visiting Artist, Fiber Structures, Metropolitan State University
Artist Talk, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Guest Juror Talk, Form, Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
Featured Speaker, CraftNOW First Friday Exhibitions Preview
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
Lusenhop Fine Art, Cleveland, OH