Alison Owen
13 Evergreen Street apt.3
Providence, RI 02906
owen.alison@ gmail.com
401.835.8385
EDUCATION
2005, MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2003 BA, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
1998-1999 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1996 Foundation Certificate, North Oxfordshire College of Art, Banbury, England
ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Liminal, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
2007 Freizen Gallery, Nampa, ID
2007 Retrace, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2007 The Spaces in Between, Tilt Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Little Sparrow, Atlanta, GA
2004 Betsy Davis and Alison Owen, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Here and Elsewhere, AIM 27, 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
artLA, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Speakeasy, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
artLA, Santa Monica, CA
Summer @ Bank, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Housebound, Sabina Lee, Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic Five, Gallery 341, San Pedro, CA
ScopeL.A., Los Angeles, CA
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR
2003 Claremont Graduate University: A Selection, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Our Hospitality, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2002 Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada
AWARDS/HONORS/RESIDENCIES
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
Liminal: Alison Owen, essay by Nancy Hathaway, 4/2008
Alison Owen at 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
EXPERIENCE
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, April 2008
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID, November 2007
Guest Lecturer and Critic, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, February 2008 and October 2007
A Tale of Three Cities, panel discussion, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, 7/2007
Visiting Artist Coordinator, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 9/2003-12/2004
Director of Graduate Student Critique, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 1/2004-5/2005