Tom Allen

Born 1975

Education
2001 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
1998 BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

One Person Exhibitions

2010 "Summerlands," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2008 "The Red in the Sky is Ours," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
2006 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2005 Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
2003 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2002 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions
2009 "1999," China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
2008 "Emerson vs. Nietzsche," China Art Objects Galleries at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
"Against the Grain," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, curated by Christopher Russell (catalogue)
2007 "Group Show," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2006 "L.A. Trash & Treasure," Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"666," curated by Jan Tumlir, Roski Fine Arts Building, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2005 "Alle-Gory," Mandarin, Los Angeles, curated by Laurence A. Rickels (catalogue with essay by Laurence A. Rickels)
"Plip, Plip, Plippity," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
"The Great Outdoors," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
"Follow Me: A Fantasy," Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Malik Gaines
2004 "Now Is a Good Time," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, curated by Dean Valentine
2003 "Works for Giovanni," China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
2002 "crisp," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"21 Paintings from LA," Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino (catalogue)
"Morbid Curiosity," I-20 Gallery, New York, curated by Jan Tumlir, (catalogue with essay by Jan Tumlir)
"Emergent Behavior," At the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, curated by John O'Brian
"The Frustrated Landscape," Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA, curated by Tyler Stallings (catalogue with essay by Eve Wood)
"What a Painting Can Do," Hayworth, Los Angeles
2001 "Morbid Curiosity," Acme, Los Angeles, curated by Jan Tumlir

Bibliography

2010 Ollman, Leah, review, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, November 11
2008 Cheh, Carol, "Against the Grain," THE Magazine, September , p. 63
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, "Against the Grain," Artforum.com, July
2007 Knight, Christopher, "45 Painters Under 45," Los Angeles Times, Sunday, December 2, p. F11 (reproduction)
Kummel-Schnur, Albert, "Academic Communication as Witchcraft: Spiritualism vs. Modern Rationality in the Case of Zollner," ArtUS, no.17, March-April, p. 34-39, illus.
2006 Anonymous, "Tom Allen," Frame, Issue 18/19, Summer 2006, p. 80, text in German (reproduction)
Moreno, Gean, "Six Degrees, The New Zombie: Tupac-n-Biggie in Clichy-sous-Bois," ArtUS, no. 12, March-April, p. 28 - 30, illus.
2003 Tumlir, Jan, review, Artforum, November, p. 195
Wood, Eve, review, ArtUS, no. 1, January-February, p. 4
2002 Schoenkopf, Rebecca, "Apocalypse Now" (review of "The Frustrated Landscape"), Orange County Weekly, October 4
Walsh, Daniella, "The Frustrated Landscape" (review), Orange County
Register, September 15, Show Section, p. 21
Rickels, Laurence A., "Billboard: Tom Allen, Becoming Ruin," Artext, Fall, pp. 28-29 (reproduction)
Tumlir, Jan, "Morbid Curiosity: The Art School Curriculum and Modernism Unbound," Artext, Fall, pp. 64-76 (reproduction)
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review," (Weekend), The New York Times,
Friday, April 19
Ollman, Leah, review, "Landscape Imagery Reduced to Kitsch," Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 28, p. F28
Richard, Frances: "crisp" (review), Artforum.com, January 10 (reproduction)

Articles and Publications

2010 "Mantong and Protong: Richard Sharpe Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski," X=TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 38-43
2007 "How Can It Be Wrong If It's From My Soul?" USC Roski School of Fine Arts BFA/BA Catalogue, insert, pp. I-VI (reproduction)
"The Soothsayer's Recompense," X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 4, pp. 34-37
"WYWH," X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 3, pp. 61-63 (reproduction)
"Questionnaire," Leisure: An Art Journal, issue #0
2005 "Necrospective," ArtUS, no. 7, March-April, pp. 38-39
2004 "Bridging the Contemporary Past," ArtUS, no. 4, September-October, pp. 18-19

Public Collections
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles