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Education


2013   MFA in Visual Arts

            University of California, San Diego
2010   BFA in Visual Arts (Painting)

            University of Florida

2010   BA in Art History

            University of Florida

 

Exhibitions

 

2025 ::  Solo Exhibition, tangerine gallery / The Weight of Becoming, / Chattanooga, TN

2025 ::  Solo Exhibition, Morlan Gallery / Untitled Frankenstein / Lexington, KY

2024 ::  Group Exhibition, Uncovered Collective / TRIBUTE—to our future silicone overlords / Essex, UK

2024 ::  Group Exhibition, Midmountain / Regeneration: Grief in Story and Song / Natural Bridge Station, VA        

2024 ::  Solo Exhibition, Wofford College / Under the Tussling Surface / Spartanburg, SC

2024 :: Group Exhibition, Phantasmal Gallery / Spiralling / UK / online exhibition

2024 :: Group Exhibition, Stove Works / Art of the South / curated by Number: Inc. Magazine, Chattanooga, TN

2023 :: Group Exhibition, Orange Art Projects / Eclecticism / Queens, NY / online exhibition

2023 ::  Group Exhibition, Augsburg University Art Galleries / In Rotation / Minneapolis, MN

2022 ::  Group Exhibition, Field Projects Gallery / NOT EVEN HOME WILL BE WITH YOU FOREVER / online exhibition

2022 ::  Group Exhibition, houseguest gallery / In the Weeds: Camouflage and its Discontents / Louisville, KY

2022 ::  Group Exhibition, Henry Sheldon Museum / Artists in the Archives: Community, History, & Collage / Middlebury VA

2022 ::  Group Exhibition, Design & Agency at Augsburg University/ In Rotation / online exhibition

2022 ::  Group Exhibition, Mason-Sharfenstein Museum of Art / Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection / Demorest, GA

2021 ::  Group Exhibition, Stove Works / Together is Better / Chattanooga, TN

2021 ::  Group Exhibition, CICA Museum / In Touch / Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

2017 ::  Solo Exhibition, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art / Insider(Outsider) / Demorest, GA

2016 ::  Group Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery / [recombinant] fellows / Washington, D.C.

2016 ::  Solo Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery / Spread / Washington, D.C.

2015 ::  Solo Exhibiton, Hamiltonian Gallery / More Human than I am Alone / Washington, D.C.

2014 ::  Group Exhbition, Kavachnina Contemporary / art-Broken / Miami, FL

2014 ::  Group Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery / new. (now). / Washington, D.C.

2014 ::  Group Exhibition, Curious Matter / Terra Incognita / Jersey City, NJ

2013 ::  Group Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art /  Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits  /  San Diego, CA 

2013 ::  Solo Exhibition, VAF Gallery /  Amass  / UCSD

2012 ::  Group Exhibition, Helmuth Projects  /  To Be Determined / San Diego, CA

2010 ::  Solo Exhibition, Satellite  /  It’s All Natural!  /  Gainesville, FL

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Readings//Performance// Lectures

 

2025 :: Artist talk, Transylvania University / Lexington KY

2024 :: Artist talk, Wofford College / Spartanburg SC

2023 :: Artist talk, “Artists in the Archives: Beyond Humans,” hosted by Kolaj with Sheldon Museum / Online artist talk

2016 :: Artist Talk, Hamiltonian Gallery / Spread, in conversation with Sam Kean / Washington, D.C.

2015 :: Artist talk, Hamiltonian Gallery / More human than I am, alone / Washington, D.C.

2014 :: Artist talk, Hamiltonian Gallery / new.(now). / Washington, D.C.

2013 :: Reading and Artist talk, University Art Gallery / UCSD

2013 :: Guest Lecturer, University of California, San Diego /  San Diego, CA

2013 :: Performance, VAF Performance Space / Outsider(Insider) / UCSD

2012 :: Reading, Experimental Drawing Studio  / “Drawing Blanks” in conversation with Lesley Stern / UCSD

 

Publications//Catalogs//Bibliography

 

2025 :: Women United Art Magazine / Issue IX Winter 2025

2024 :: Art Seen Magazine / The Curators Salon /  Issue 14: Winter 2024

2023 :: Ruckus Journal / in the weeds / Nathaniel Hendrickson / January 17

2022 :: kolaj magazine / artists in the archive/ book / edited by Ric Kasini Kadour

2019 :: New American Paintings / no. 142 South Issue

2016 :: Washington Post / "In the Galleries: A Limited Number of Shades of Gray” / Mark Jenkins / December 9  

2016 :: Washington City Paper / "Hamiltonian Gallery’s Latest Group Show Finds Comraderie in Loneliness" / Kriston Capps /

December 2

2016 :: Washington Post / "In the Galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror" / Mark Jenkins / April 29

2016 :: Washington City Paper / Margaret Carrigan / April 22

2015 :: Hamiltonian Artists Annual Catalog / Hamiltonian Gallery / Washington, DC / with forward by Ian MacLean Davis

2015 :: Washington Post / Mark Jenkins / July 25

2015 :: Capitol File / Summer 2015 

2015 :: [out of nothing], issue #8, April 2015, “To Dissect, To Dice”

2014 :: The LIFESTYLE, May 2014 / Artist Feature

2014 :: Curious Matter, Terra Incognita / exhibition catalog

2013 :: San Diego Museum of Art, Summer Break: Double Portraits / exhibition catalog

2013 :: University of California, San Diego / Amass  / exhibition catalog with essays by Emily Elizabeth Goodman, Brett Zehner, Samara

Kaplan

2013 :: University of California, San Diego, MFA 2013  / exhibition catalog

2013 :: A Mass / artist’s book

2010 :: University Gallery, SAJE, online exhibition catalog

 

Residencies

 

2022 :: Collagists in the Archive / Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum, VT / one-month online residency / May

2021 :: Stove Works Residency / one-month residency / March

2020 :: Hambidge / two-week residency / December

2016 :: Millay Colony

2015 :: Elsewhere Residency / artist's retreat

2013 :: Vermont Studio Center

 

Fellowships//Awards//Grants

 

2024 :: COFRS Grant: Florida State University, $20,000

2019 :: FYAP Grant: Florida State University, $20,000

2016 :: Washingtonian Collection Grant: DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities

2016 :: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship 

2014 :: Hamiltonian Fellowship

2013 :: Vermont Studio Center Fellowship

2012 :: Russel Foundation Grant

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Other//Related​

 

2022 :: “How to Build a Monster: Hybridity and its Challenge to the Dominate Order” / SECAC 2022 / Baltimore MD

2016 :: Panel Co-Chair / SECAC 2016 / “Anatomically Incorrect: Body Horror in Visual Culture” / October 2016

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Born

December 19, 1986

Daughter of a Librarian

© 2015 by Allison Spence

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