Bobby Abate (Brooklyn, NY) is a queer artist, filmmaker, and editor whose work has been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art’s MediaScope series in New York, the New York Film Festival, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and most recently at International Objects in NYC, Their Queer Objects series was awarded third place at the 2024 Annual Works on Paper show, juried by Kim Conaty, Chief Curator at the Whitney. Residencies include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Space on Governors Island (2023), the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, NY (2024), and the VCCA in Amherst, VA (2024). Bobby is also the 2024 recipient of the Princess Grace Special Projects Grant and the Leighton International Artist Exchange Program grant, as well as the DVAA Artist Fellowship in 2023. They hold an MFA degree from Bard College. In their role as an editor, Bobby contributed to seasons 3 and 4 of the queer docuseries We’re Here on HBO, which recently received Peabody and Television Academy awards. Additionally, they create animations for renowned drag performer Sasha Velour. In 2021, Bobby self-published The Outsider Tarot, featuring 80 original artworks that reimagine the traditional Tarot in a modern, queer context. This deck and its accompanying 200-page guidebook were presented at the Whitney Museum, Participant INC., and Miami MoCA. They were sold at Artbook in PS1 MoMA Queens and are now part of the permanent collections at the Fine Arts Library of Harvard University and the Salem Museum.
