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Cecile Abish (born 1930 in New York City) is an American artist known primarily for her works in sculpture and photography. Cecile Abish was a successful urban planner until 1965, when she devoted herself full-time to art. Her works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and internationally, such as the Newark College of Engineering, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna to name a few. Her late husband, the writer Walter Abish, wrote The Shape of Absence in 1990, based on her work.