ABOUT ABBI

Abbi Ruppert is a sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, and educator. Her work comes from a personal investigation of developmental trauma, rural poverty, and passing time.

Abbi earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville in 2021 and a Master of Arts from West Virginia
University in 2022. Abbi now lives in Owensboro, Kentucky, where she works
as full-time Art Instructor & Program Coordinator to grow the Associate in Fine
Arts-Visual Art program at Owensboro Community & Technical College since
August 2023.

Abbi’s most notable recent public work includes large-scale sculpture on Evansdale Campus at West Virginia University and a public commission for Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania. In 2021, her sculpture Revival won both Second Place and the People's Choice award in the Art in Public Places sculpture exhibition in Knoxville, Tennessee. Abbi also received the 2020 Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center, which included a feature in Sculpture Magazine. Abbi's most recent solo exhibition was Along the way at Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri in October 2024. Upcoming exhibitions in 2025 include a two-person show at Governor French Gallery in Belleville, IL and a solo exhibition at Fitton Center for the Arts in Hamilton, OH.

When she is not working or making art, Abbi enjoys visiting her baby nieces,
Rhea & Nora, and exploring the great outdoors with her cat, Rigby.