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Terry Allen portrait
Photography by Paul O'Connor 2003

Terry Allen
1943 Born on May 7th in Wichita, Kansas
raised in Lubbock, Texas

Education
1966 Studied at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, B.F.A.

full biography

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Recent exhibitions
 
Dugout

a multimedia, multi-venue art exhibition and theatre program in Los Angeles
February - May 2004
 

Exhibitions elsewhere
 
Terry Allen
One on One
6 February – 9 May 2010
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
6 February – 9 May 2010
www.sitesantafe.org


Recent exhibitions elsewhere

Terry Allen
Trees
20 January 2009
The Stuart Collection
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA
click here for the Stuart Collection web site

click here for press release

“Trees,” by Terry Allen, commissioned by the Stuart Collection and installed at the University of California, San Diego, will broadcast the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States, on 20 January, beginning at 8 a.m.

Selected article
Knight, Christopher. "Terry Allen's 'Trees' are about to come to life for Obama inauguration."
Los Angeles Times. 13 January 2009.
click to read full article

 

Artist's official website: www.terryallenartmusic.com

 

 

China Night
Youth in Asia
Commissions
Dugout >>
                   
 

 

Dugout >>
The companion book to Terry Allen’s three-part multimedia work, with essays by David Byrne, Dave Hickey and Terrie Sultan, and an introduction by Dana Friis-Hansen, is now available through University of Texas Press. www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/alldug.html

Dugout I
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
An exhibition of unique objects that incorporates poetry and prose, in two- and three-dimensional form. In collaboration with Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
4 March - 10 April 2004 (click for full exhibition page)

  Dugout conversation
The LACMA Institute for Art and Cultures

Los Angeles, CA with Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen and Dave Hickey.

Convened by Paul Holdengräber
8 March 2004 >>

  Dugout II (Hold on to the house)
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Video and installation sculpture, including
images relating to the presentation of Dugout III Warboy (and the backboard blues)
28 February - 15 May 2004 >>

 


Dugout III Warboy (and the backboard blues)

REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
December 8 –10 2005

L.A. Theatre Works at the Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA and recorded for L.A. Theatre Works' weekly National Public Radio show "The Play's The Thing."
Starring Jo Harvey Allen with Terry Allen, Lloyd Maines and Richard Bowden
3, 4, 5 March & two performances 7 March 2004

Dugout III was performed in at the State Theater Company in Austin, TX
January 2004 (click for full performance page)

      Dugout I & Dugout II:
Hold on to the house

Blaffer Museum, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX
April 16-June 11 2005

 
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Recipient of the International Association of Art Critics 2003 - 2004 Award
Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally, Second Place
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