ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming 2012, Prole Drift, Seattle, WA
2012, Shelf Life, Cuchifritos Gallery, NY
2011, House Rules, Summercamp Project Project, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Divisibility, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Subtle, 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2009 Flatlands, id11, Delft, The Netherlands
Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI (collaboration with Lisa Perez)
2009 Ballast, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2008 Liminal, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
2007 Freizen Gallery, Nampa, ID
Retrace, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
The Spaces in Between, Tilt Gallery, Portland, OR
Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Little Sparrow, Atlanta, GA
2004 Betsy Davis and Alison Owen, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Artist Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Wallworks, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
2010 Curiouser, Providence Museum of Natural History, Providence, RI
RISCA Fellowship Award Show, hosted by Imago Gallery, Warren, RI
2009 Beauty Underfoot, Smack Mellon, NY, NY
The Austerity Cookbook, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
De/Construct II, 150 Chestnut, Providence, RI
2008 Overhung, Concrete Walls, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Here and Elsewhere, Bronx Art Museum, NY, NY
Pillow Talk, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006, Back Room, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Architectural Elements, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
New World Orders, The Experimental Space, Long Island City, NY
2005 Speakeasy, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Summer @ Bank, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Housebound, Sabina Lee, Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic Five, Gallery 341, San Pedro, CA
2003 Claremont Graduate University: A Selection, Riverside Art Museum,
Riverside, CA
Our Hospitality, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
2005 MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2003 BA, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
1996 Foundation Certificate, North Oxfordshire College of Art, Banbury, England
AWARDS/HONORS/RESIDENCIES
2011 Finalist, Maccoll Johnson Fellowship
2010 Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, NY, NY
2010 Gallery Aferro Studio Residency, Newark, NJ
2010 New Genres Fellowship, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
2009 Flatlands Residency, id11, Delft, The Netherlands
2008 Soaring Gardens Residency, Lerman Trust (Pennsylvania)
2006 Artists-in-the-Marketplace, Bronx Art Museum, NY, NY
2002 Grant Recipient, Grants for Artists Program, Seattle Artist Trust
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Curiouser’ a new take on past favorites, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, 1/04/2011
10 exhibits that are worth another look, Greg Cook, The Providence Phoenix, 12/22/2010
Illuminating Spaces, Martina Windels, East Side Monthly, 10/2010
Dust and dirt as art in ‘divisibility’, Rafael Chaiken, The Brown Daily Herald, 9/2010
Tax Dollars at Work, Greg Cook, The Providence Phoenix, 2/10/2010
The Austerity Cookbook: Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, 9/2009
Liminal: Alison Owen, essay by Nancy Hathaway, 4/2008
Alison Owen Installation in Our House, Megan McMillan, meganandmurray.com, 4/2008
Alison Owen at Tilt, ultrapdx.com, 6/2007
Getting to See What’s Right in Front of You: Alison Owen at Tilt, portlandart.net, 6/2007
Here and Elsewhere, exhibition catalogue, essays by Joao Ribas and
Erin Riley-Lopez, 2007
Bye-Bye Manhattan, Ins&Outs magazine, summer 2006
The Idea and The Possible, Chuck Twardy, Las Vegas Weekly, 8/10/06
Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3/3/5
Extolling the Virtue of Quiet Work, Megan McMillan, meganandmurray.com
The Value of Having Some Space, Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, 12/24/04
New American Paintings, volume 49, 12/03
Wegway Magazine, 10/02