EDUCATION

2025: MFA, Department of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

2002: BA Fine and Applied Arts, Upper Division, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

2025: Dedication and Impact in Arts Award, Female Artists Association of Nigeria

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: Metamorphosis. Edmonds College Gallery, Lynwood, Washington State.

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

2026: Art for August, August Wilson House, Pittsburgh, PA.

2025: MFA Thesis Group Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, WSU, Pullman, WA

2023: Embrace Equity: Illustrating Invisible Labor, IWD - Dept. of Art, WSU, 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

2025: Dept of Health Promotions and Professional Development Initiative, WSU, Pullman, WA.

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. WSU, 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.

City of Pensacola, Pensacola, FL

Embassy of Spain Residence, Abuja-Nigeria

Inatai Foundation, Seattle, WA

August Wilson House, Pittsburgh, WA

COMMISSIONS

2019: Private Mural project at Sanstonz Consulting Limited, Abuja, Nigeria.

2016: 10 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 Nigerian 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.

Ferrum Art House