Abraham Burickson

Abraham Burickson (born 1975) In 2008 he received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.

Career In 2001, with actor Matthew Purdon, Burickson co-founded the conceptual art and performance group Odyssey Works, becoming its artistic director and co-director of its Experience Design Certificate program. He heads the Long Architecture Project, which bases architectural design on deep analysis of clients' values and aims. and at Academy of Art University.

In 2016, with Ayden LeRoux, he published Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, which consists of six essays outlining Odyssey Works' approach to art-making as experience design. His 2023 book Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto seeks to redirect design from things to experiences.

Publications Books with Ayden LeRoux. Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One. Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. . Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto. Yale University Press, 2023. .

Chapbooks Charlie. Codhill Press, 2010. .

Anthology appearances "At the Barbecue Joint, Taylor, Texas". In: Best New Poets 2008. Ed. Mark Strand. University of Virginia Press, 2008. .