Abel Tilahun is an international artist working primarily in 2D and 3D animations for installations that also frequently include sculpture, composed music, and drawn imagery. He grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and earned his BFA in Sculpture at the School of Fine Art & Design of Addis Ababa University in 2006. He was the first student at his school to exhibit an animation installation as his thesis project, and he continued this trend by exhibiting a site-specific solo installation at the prestigious Alliance Ethio-Francaise gallery a year later; the exhibition received significant press attention as the first full-gallery video installation shown in Ethiopia. In 2007 Abel moved to the United States, where he began work on his MA in Fine Art at Adams State College, which he completed in 2010. He continues to exhibit his animations in numerous shows and film festivals, including his most recent solo exhibition at the Cloyde Snook Gallery, A Generation Projected. You can view his demo reel on http://vimeo.com/18666048