Eddie Abd is an artist and arts worker living on Dharug and Gundungurra Country.

In her work, she often utilises performance on video, digital collage (still and moving) and cross stitch embroidery to explore the politics of image-making and consumption, framed through a personal lens.

Her solo exhibitions were held at Casula Powerhouse Arts centre (2024), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2023) and Firstdraft (2021). Eddie was awarded the Create NSW visual arts fellowship for emerging artist 2021/2022 and is the 2021 Blake prize recipient (emerging). 

Over the past fifteen years, she has worked across Western Sydney collaborating with and supporting creatives to realise arts projects grounded in Community Arts and Cultural Development processes. Her experience as a creative producer and curator spans a range of multidisciplinary projects across visual arts, screen, and performance. She is a creative producer at Utp.

Born in Lebanon, Eddie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) at the Lebanese University (2001) and a Bachelor of Digital Media at COFA, UNSW (2005).

eddieabd@gmail.com

2025 Guest curator ‘in every room’ - group exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre, 5 Jul - 12 Oct

Artists: Lara Chamas, Jagath Dheerasekara, Kuba Dorabialski, Roberta Joy Rich, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Curtis Taylor.

2025 Group exhibition - Refusal / Futurity, Platform Arts, 10 May - 11 Jul

2024 Solo exhibition - The Unbearable Right To See and Be Seen, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 8 Dec - 28 Apr

2023        Visual artist - Illuminate Festival, Picton, Sep

2023 Participating artist - Hands event, Carriageworks Nights, Jul

2023        Artist residency, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, May

​2023        Group Show - Okkoota, Arts House, 12 - 23 April 

2022        Awarded the Create NSW Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship, N.A.S., 24 Aug - 11 Sep

2022        Solo show - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 16 Jul. - 4 Sep.

2022        Group show - Inland See, Grafton Regional Gallery, 9 Jul - 11 Sep

2022        Brand X - video installation, City of Sydney Creative Studios, 1 Sep - 10 Oct

2022        Participating artist - Blue Mountains Portraits, 22 Jan. - 20 Mar.

2022        Participant, Biennale Delegates Program, Australia Council for the Arts

2021         Awarded the 66th Blake Prize - Emerging Artist Award 

2021         52 Actions, Artspace, May 3 - 9

2021         Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2021         Participating artist - Spirit of '21 OPEN MIKE, Cementa Festival, 16 Oct.

2021         Group show -This Changes Everything, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre,  8 May - 20 Jun.

2021         Participating artist - Blue Mountains Portraits 

 

2020         Solo  show - In Their Finery, Firstdraft Gallery

2019         Under The Tree, multimedia collective performance, Arab Theatre Studio

2019         Group show - Everyday Madonna, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

2019         Finalist - Blacktown Art Prize

2019         Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2018        Family Slide Night, Arab Theatre Studio

2018        Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2015        Solo show - “What’s the English Equivalent of Aram?”, Peacock Gallery

Collections

Liverpool City Council

University of Western Sydney

Publications

Art Collector, Jan - March 2022, Cool Hunter Predictions (The artists to watch in the year ahead), written by Luke Létourneau

Artist Profile , Issue 66, THE EEL, THE HORSE , AND THE EUCALYPT: A SUITE OF POWERFUL SOLOS TRASNFORM CASULA POWERHOUSE, Review by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris