Tom Allen

Born 1975, Springfield, Massachusetts Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Summerlands,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2008 “The Red in the Sky is Ours,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2008 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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 “LA Wood Show,” Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2013 CLAVIS – Journal of Occult Arts, Letters and Experience Issue 2 Launch Event, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles
2012 “Landscape & Architecture,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine 2009 “Round Up,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2009 “1999,” China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
2008 “Emerson vs. Nietzsche,” China Art Objects Galleries at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
2008 “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
2006 “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)
2005 “Plip, Plip, Plippity,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2005 “The Great Outdoors,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
2005 “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
2002 “21 Paintings from LA,” Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino (catalogue)
2002 “Morbid Curiosity,” I-20 Gallery, New York, curated by Jan Tumlir, (catalogue with essay by Jan Tumlir)
2002 “Emergent Behavior,” At the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, curated by John O’Brian
2002 “The Frustrated Landscape,” Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA, curated by Tyler Stallings (catalogue with essay by Eve Wood)
2002 “What a Painting Can Do,” Hayworth, Los Angeles
2001 “Morbid Curiosity,” Acme, Los Angeles, curated by Jan Tumlir

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Krasinski, Jennifer, “An Overpowering Brilliance Equal to the Greatest Darkness: On the Paintings of Tom Allen,” unpublished
2011 Satorius, Katherine, review of “Summerlands”, ArtUS, no. 31
2010 Ollman, Leah, review of “Summerlands”, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, November 11
2008 Cheh, Carol, “Against the Grain,” THE Magazine, September , p. 63
2008 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)
2007 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)
2006 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 FrustratedLandscape”), Orange County Weekly, October 4
2002 Walsh, Daniella, “The Frustrated Landscape” (review), Orange County Register, September 15, Show Section, p. 21
2002 Rickels, Laurence A., “Billboard: Tom Allen, Becoming Ruin,” Artext, Fall, pp. 28-29 (reproduction)
2002 Tumlir, Jan, “Morbid Curiosity: The Art School Curriculum and Modernism Unbound,” Artext, Fall, pp. 64-76 (reproduction)
2002 Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review,” (Weekend), The New York Times, Friday, April 19
2002 Ollman, Leah, review, “Landscape Imagery Reduced to Kitsch,” Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 28, p. F28
2002 Richard, Frances: “crisp” (review), Artforum.com, January 10 (reproduction)

ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, AND PUBLICATIONS
2016 Interview with Brainard Carey, Yale University Radio WYBCX
2013 – Present Art Director, CLAVIS: Journal of Occult Art, Letters and Experience
2013 “Occult Aesthesis: Towards an Esoteric Theory of the Art Object,”
2013 CLAVIS – Journal of the Art Magical, Issue 1, pp. 92-93(reproduction)
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)
2007 “The Soothsayer’s Recompense,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 4, pp. 34-37
2007 “WYWH,” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 3, pp. 61-63 (reproduction)
2007 “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
The Sweeney Gallery, University of California, Riverside

TEACHING AND RELATED
2008 – Present Adjunct faculty, Graduate Fine Art, Art Center College of Design
2012 – Present Part-time Lecturer, Undergraduate Painting and Drawing, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
2012 – 2014 Faculty Council Representative, Graduate Fine Art, Art Center College of Design
2012 Organizer and participant, “Occult Aesthesis: Concerning the Esoteric In Cultural Production,” panel discussion, Art Center College of Design