Gabie Strong is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator exploring spatial constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning.

Her work has been presented by The Tapeworm, LAMOA DS#3 at Commonwealth & Council, LAND AND SEA OAKLAND+BAMPFA, The UCLA Hammer Museum, MOCA, Current LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Sierra Nevada College, Pitzer College Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, LAXArt, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources LA, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and Jabberjaw.

She is the founder of Crystalline Morphologies community imprint dedicated to releasing unclassifiable and improvised work by underrepresented Los Angeles women, trans and gender non-conforming artists whose contributions are often overlooked in the context of avant-garde music and art. She has also worked with Kchung Radio since its beginning to promote community accessible radio broadcasting, and is an original organizer of riot grrrl LA.

She has collaborated with artists including strom|morts, drøne, Sameer Farooq, Tara Jane O’Neil + Jmy Kidd, Pauline Lay, Michael Morley (Gate, The Dead C., The Never Quartet), Christopher Reid Martin (Shelter Death, Rotary ECT, CGRSM), Pamela Jordan, John Pearson, Joe Potts/LAFMS, Anna Homler, Jorge Martin, Liz Harris/Nivhek, Elaine Carey (Telecaves, Rogue Squares), Ted Byrnes, Raquel Gutiérrez, Tom Watson, Jared Stanley and Matthew Hebert, Save Music in Chinatown, dublab, kchung, and High Desert Test Sites, among others.

Gabie Strong performing in Pamela Jorden’s exhibition Forest, Romer Young Gallery. 2021. Photo by John Pearson.