b. 1990 from Belmont, CA

Abigail McCallum is a Jewish-American multidisciplinary artist who specializes in oil painting. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and discovered a love of music and dance early on. She studied classical ballet at Ayako School of Ballet in Belmont, CA and the Kirov Academy in Washington D.C. After too many performances of Nutcracker, she left the dance world to pursue academics. She moved to Spokane, Washington to attend Gonzaga University and study mathematics, philosophy and maybe art. After befriending the painting professor Robert Gilmore in the Jundt Art Museum, she turned her attention to oil painting and drawing. She painted in the late hours all through the night in a small cubicle on the second floor of the museum. It started first with academic drapery studies and turned into paintings of withered botanical forms that caught her fascination. She thrived in this untraditional art education that was focused less on technique and more on individuation. Following university, McCallum moved back to San Francisco. She set up a studio in San Francisco, wondering how far down the rabbit hole could I go?

Currently, she lives in Los Angeles and works between her home studio and one in Inglewood, painting her son and two whippets. She is hoping to be back to San Francisco soon.