Stuart Allen is an artist whose work deals with fundamental elements of perception such as light, gravity and space. He studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the photography and video department of the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. Allen lived and worked in Northern California from '94 through 2002. Currently he lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Kelly Lyons, daughter Aidan and son Vincent.

Stuart has shown photographs and sculpture in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad. His work is found in many private and public collections including the Tokyo Kite Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, and the DiRosa Art Preserve. He has completed permanent public art commissions for the United States Embassy in Ottawa, Canada and the Police Headquarters building in Davis, CA. Stuart’s work has been published in a variety of books and journals including: Picturing California’s Other Landscape: the Great Central Valley, Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography, Zyzzyva and Artweek.

STUART ALLEN
(born 1970, Wichita, Kansas, USA)

EDUCATION

Kansas City Art Institute, BFA, photography and video, 1993
University of Kansas, architecture, 1989-91

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 ArtPace, WindowWorks, San Antonio
Ginsler Architects, Houston

2008 Finesilver Gallery, Houston
JayJay, Sacramento

2007 San Antonio Museum of Art, 29° 26' 14" N ~ 98° 28' 55" W, San Antonio
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
Ursa, 35° 41' 01" N ~ 105° 56' 49" W, Santa Fe, NM

2006 PDNB, Dallas

2005 City of San Antonio International Center, Trace, San Antonio
University Art Gallery, California State University, Baja, Stanislaus, CA
Pool Art Center Gallery, Drury University, Dance Lines, Springfield, MO

2003 Crocker Art Museum, Dance Lines: Photographs by Stuart Allen, Sacramento
JayJay, Lines and Planes, Sacramento
Claremont Graduate University, Light / Time / Motion, Claremont, CA
Branson Gallery, Gesture, Ross, CA
101 California Street, 37° 47' 30" N / 122° 23' 50" W, San Francisco

2002 Limn Gallery, Contour, San Francisco
Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Camera Lucida, Sacramento

2000 Fairfield Center Gallery, Free-Float: an Investigation of Gravity and Spacetime, Fairfield, CA

1999 Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley

1998 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Nightlines, Sacramento

1997 Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Windlines, Fairfield, CA

1996 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento

1995 Phantom Galleries, Airscapes, Sacramento

1994 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

1993 Wilson Gallery, Landscape (land' skap) n., Kansas City, MO
Watson Ess Gallery, Windshield Panoramas, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Art Institute, Moving Through Midwestern Spaces, Kansas City, MO

1992 Kansas City Art Institute, Of Recreational Vehicles and Harley Davidsons, Kansas City, MO

SELECTED TWO-PERSON* AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 JayJay, Sacramento
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City

2008 San Antonio Museum of Art, Mixing Chamber, collaboration with Potter Belmar Labs, San Antonio
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Playing With Time, San Antonio
Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio
AIPAD, The Photography Show, (PDNB Gallery), New York

2007 McNay Art Museum, Artists Looking at Art, San Antonio*
Nevada Museum of Art, Enigma: Absence and Presence in Contemporary Art, Reno, NV
University of Texas, San Antonio Art Gallery, Texas Uprising, San Antonio
PDNB, Naughty or Nice, Dallas
C Gallery, Holiday Show, Santa Fe, NM
AIPAD, The Photography Show, (PDNB Gallery), Miami
Flow Fair, (JayJay Gallery), Miami
AIPAD, The Photography Show, (PDNB Gallery), New York
Photo LA, (PDNB Gallery), Los Angeles
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Kites: Stuart Allen and Robert Trépanier, San Antonio*
Kansas City Art Institute, Alumni Weekend Exhibition, Kansas City
Houston Center for Photography, 25th Anniversary Auction Exhibition, Houston
Billings International Airport, Kites: Big Sky Sculpture, Billings, MT

2006 Minnesota Center for Photography, Choreographic, Minneapolis
Art (212) Contemporary Art Fair, (Finesilver Gallery),New York
Dallas Modern Expo, (PDNB Gallery),Dallas
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Annual Benefit Auction, Woodstock, NY
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City

2005 JayJay, New from the Stable, Sacramento
San Antonio College, WindWorks: Kites by Stuart Allen and Robert Trépanier, San Antonio*

2004 Hudson River Museum, Shaped by the Wind, Yonkers, NY
Weisman Art Museum, TAKO: Japanese Kites Influence Western Kitemakers, Minneapolis
JayJay, Cut-ups, Ready-mades, Color Fact, Sacramento
Crocker Art Museum, Art Ark traveling exhibit, Sacramento

2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts, WindArt, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Encina Art Gallery, Artists From JayJay, Sacramento

2002 Huntington Beach Art Center, Taken from the Sea, Huntington Beach, CA
Andrew Shire Gallery, Big Wave IV, Los Angeles
JayJay, New Space, New Work, Sacramento
City Gallery, Creative Cycles, Davis, CA
Crocker Art Museum Auction, Sacramento, CA

2001 Cerra Coso College, Loosely Landscape, Ridgecrest, CA
Pence Gallery, Creative Cycles, Davis, CA
Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley
Crocker Art Museum Auction, Sacramento

2000 Lower Lake Museum, Lower Lake, CA
Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley
Michael Himovitz Gallery, Miniatures, Sacramento

1999 The Haggin Museum, Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley, Stockton, CA
City Gallery, BioArt, Davis, CA

1998 Centre Commercial de Balexert, Art of the Contemporary Kite, Geneva, Switzerland
Putah / Cache Creek Bioregional Residency exhibition, Watershed Arts, Guenoc Winery, CA
Wenham Museum, Life's A Breeze, Wenham, MA
750 Gallery, Artists for Tibet, Sacramento
TransAmerica Tower Complex, San Francisco

1997 Michael Himovitz Gallery, New Work / New Space, Sacramento
750 Gallery, New Light / Photography '97, Sacramento
AKA Kite / Art Exhibit, Wildwood, NJ

1996 Pence Gallery, Geographia: Stuart Allen and Jim Garmhausen, Davis, CA*
Davis Art Center, WindWorks, Davis, CA
City Hall, Ring of Light: Illuminating the Presence of Art in the Community, Davis, CA

1995 Davis Art Center, Davis Photo Expo, Davis, CA
Davis Art Center, Out of the Studio, Davis Art Center Faculty, Davis, CA

1994 Davis Art Center, Davis Photo Expo, Davis, CA

1993 Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition, Solebury, PA
University of Northern Iowa, Magic Silver Show, Cedar Falls, IA

1992 Conference for the Advancement of Photographic Art, Intervening Spectra, Kansas City

1989 Sister Cities Art Exchange, Orleans, France

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

PERMANENT:
2009 38° 44' 48" N ~ 121° 14' 54" W, Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Roseville, CA
2008 30 Minutes of Air, South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio
2006 Start, Yolo County Health Services Building, Woodland, CA
2001 38° 33’ 05” N / 121° 43’ 10” W, City of Davis Police Headquarters, Davis, CA
1999 38° 53’ N / 77° 02’ W ~ 45° 24’ N / 75° 43’ W, United States Embassy, Ottawa, Canada

TEMPORARARY:
2007 29° 26' 14" N ~ 98° 28' 55" W, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
2003 37° 47’ 30” N / 122° 23’ 50” W, 101 California St., San Francisco
1997 Windlines, Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

PDNB, Dallas, TX
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
JayJay, Sacramento, CA
Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia
C Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA

ART CONSULTANT AFFILIATIONS

ArtSource Consulting, San Francisco, CA
Kinzelman Art Consulting, Houston, TX
Fresh Paint, Los Angeles, CA

VISITING ARTIST / TEACHING

2008 University of Texas, Arlington, visiting artist, Art Dept.

2007 University of Texas, San Antonio, visiting artist, Art Dept.

2005 California State University, Stanislaus, visiting artist, Art Dept.

2004 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, visiting artist, Graduate Architecture Dept.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, visiting artist

2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, invited artist in residence

2002 Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA, visiting artist, Art Dept.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, visiting artist, Graduate Architecture Dept.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, visiting artist, Art Dept.

2001 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, visiting artist, Art Dept.
Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference, Port Townsend, WA, instructor, March, 2000

'97-98 Junction Kite Retreat, Texas Tech University, Junction, TX, instructor

'94-02 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA, instructor, photography and kite-making

'92-93 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, teaching assistant, photography

LECTURES

2009 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

2007 San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio

2006 Trinity University, Art Dept., San Antonio
Texas Woman’s University, Art Dept., Denton, TX
Brookhaven College, Art Dept., Dallas

2005 Drury University, Art Dept., Springfield, MO
San Antonio College, Art Dept., San Antonio

2004 Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

2003 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

2002 Sacramento City College, Art Dept., Sacramento
California State University, Art Dept., Sacramento
Claremont Graduate University, Art Dept., Claremont, CA

2001 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

1999 Pence Gallery, October, Davis, CA, 1999

1998 University of California at Davis, Art Dept.
University of California at Davis, English Dept.
University of California at Davis, Landscape Architecture Dept.

1996 Pence Gallery, September, Davis, CA
Families First, Davis, CA

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008 Aperture West Book Prize Nominee

2007 Whiting Memorial Award, presented by the International Society for Philosophical Inquiry

2003 Invited artist in residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, September

1998 Travel Grant to participate in Daimon International Kite Festival, Daimon, Japan

1997 Artist in Bioregional Residence Grant, U.C. Davis

1993 Juror's Award, Magic Silver Show, University of Northern Iowa

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND CATALOGS:
Allen, Stuart and Dilworth, Rachel. Putah and Cache 2. Davis, California: Putah/Cache Bioregion Project, 1998.
Colburn. Richard. Magic Silver. Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa, 1993.
Cuba, Nan and Robinson, Riley. Art at Our Doorsteps. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2008.
DeAngelo, Darlene and Murdock, Matt. 2332. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 2008
JayJay. Gallery catalog, 2002.
O’Grady, John. Grave Goods. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. Cover Photograph.
Prior, Wandy and David Rothenberg. Writing on Air. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003.
Robertson, David. Stuart Allen: Light/Time/Motion, Claremont, California: Claremont Graduate University, 2002.
Rubin, David. 29° 26' 14" N ~ 98° 28' 55" W: Stuart Allen, San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2007.
Shenker, Heath. Picturing California’s Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1999.
Shields, Scott A. Dance Lines: Photographs by Stuart Allen. Sacramento: Crocker Art Museum, 2003.

JOURNALS:
Allen, Stuart. “Night Lines, Stuart Allen.” Terra Nova 3, no. 4, MIT Press (Fall 1998): 71-77.
____."Night Lines, Stuart Allen.” You Are Here. The Journal of Creative Geography, University of Arizona Press (Spring 2001): cover, 18-23.
____. Zyzzyva 28, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 160, 175.
Satoglou, Pavlos and Giorgos Lavdas. Antilipseis, no. 14, (Fall 2008).

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
Abatemarco, Michael. "Stuart Allen: 35° 41’ 01" N ~ 105° 56’ 49" W." THE Magazine, Dec. '07 / Jan., '08.
Abbe, Mary. “Ethereal kite exhibit floats to the Weisman Art Museum.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 24, 2004.
Anderson, Barbara. “Art In Their Own Backyard.” U.C. Davis Magazine (Fall 1998): 19-21.
Belasco, Jessica. "Allen's kite sculptures illuminate color transitions..." 210 SA, September 28, 2007.
Britt, Douglas. "From abstract to architectural." Houston Chronicle, April 3, 2008.
Cook, Greg. "Exposures." The Boston Phoenix, November 14, 2008
Dalkey, Victoria. “Through a lens, brightly.” Sacramento Bee, March 23, 1997.
____. “Image Alone Isn’t Everything.” Sacramento Bee, May 31, 1998.
____. “Geography as line and hue.” Sacramento Bee, December 5, 1999.
____. “Critic’s Pick.” Sacramento Bee, November 3, 2002.
____. “A Subtle Geometry: Stuart Allen draws on science…” Sacramento Bee, January 26, 2003.
____. “Critic’s Pick.” Sacramento Bee, August 24, 2003.
____. “Fertile Imaginations.” Sacramento Bee, September 28, 2003.
____. “Fountain of Truth…” Sacramento Bee, July 25, 2004.
Davis Enterprise. “Two New Artworks Join City Collection.” October 18, 2001.
Davis Enterprise. “Flying Sculpture Soars in New Davis PD.” May 30, 2001.
De Leon, Joseph. “Kites reveal environment, artist says.” (San Antonio) The Ranger, February 11, 2005.
Devany,Tim. “Beauty and the East.” American Kite Magazine (Summer 1997).
“Eyes for the Skies.” Orlando Sentinel, September 12, 2003.
Faught, Judith. “Hang Time: brothers mix art and science.” Fairfield Daily Republic, February 4, 2000.
Feeney, Mark. "Tracing the outlines of time." Boston Globe, November 28, 2008.
Fisch, Sarah. "Water under the bridge(s)." San Antonio Current, December 10, 2008.
Goddard, Dan R. “Exhibit has strings attached.” San Antonio Express-News, February 23, 2005.
____. "Art, digital technology will merge to light up Luminaria." San Antonio Express-News, March 12, 2008.
____. “Grass-roots photo fest grows internationally.” San Antonio Express-News, September 4, 2005.
____. “Artist, tour guide offer an appreciation of art.” San Antonio Express-News, March 22, 2007.
____. “Indoor sculptures often fool the eye.” San Antonio Express-News, June 20, 2007.
____. “Sailcloth transforms Great Hall into an experiment of light.” San Antonio Express-News, July 1, 2007.
____. “San Antonio art scene is growing and evolving.” San Antonio Express-News, August 18, 2007.
____. “River foundation commissions seven artists for bridge projects.” San Antonio Express-News, July 19, 2008.
Goldsmith, Meredith. “Stuart Allen at the Crocker Art Museum.” Artweek 34, no. 8 (October 2003): 17.
Herrera, Jennifer. "Luminaria: Arts Night, The Mixing Chamber." San Antonio Current, March 12, 2008.
Hess, Harvey. “UNI Gallery’s Magic Silver Show.” Cedar Falls Courier, February 22, 1993.
Hoffman, Carol Bernard. “But is it Art? Or, To Explain the Ineffable.” Telicom (November 1999): 27-28.
Julian, Kimi. “7 Days, Art.” Sacramento News and Review, June 11, 1998.
Landa, Allison. “Courtyard exhibit embraces the atmosphere.” Fairfield Daily Republic, May 27, 1997.
McGraw, Kate. "Experimental Body: Stuart Allen's work combines cloth, light and photography." Albuquerque Journal North, October 19, 2007.
Moyle, Marilyn. “Shows display artists’ love for chosen media.” Davis Enterprise, September 12, 1996.
____. “Guenoc Watershed Festival: Art with a bioregional focus.” Davis Enterprise, April 23, 1998.
____. ”Soaring with the Artistic Spirit of Stuart Allen.” (Davis Enterprise) Weekend Magazine, April 20, 2000.
Munich, Susanne. “Moving On: Stuart Allen Prepares for New Challenges.” Davis Enterprise, March 6, 2003.
Nusbaum, Eliot. “Photography 1993.” Des Moines Register, February 7, 1993.
Parente, Audrey. “Kite Artists Reach for Clouds.” Daytona Beach News Journal, September 28, 2003.
Raymond, David. "Tempis Fugit, Tempis Stasis." Art New England, February / March, 2009
Roberts, Diana Lyn. "Great Halls of fire." San Antonio Current, July 11, 2007.
Shackelford, Penelope. “The Elements: Earth…” Artweek 30, no. 2 (February 1999): 12-13.
“Shaped by the Wind: Kites.” (Yonkers) North County News, June 23, 2004.
Sherwin, Elisabeth. “Activist artists exhibit work at Davis City Hall.” Davis Enterprise, December 4, 1996.
Walworth, Catherine. “The Art Capades.” San Antonio Current, February 24, 2005.
Walsh, Daniella. "2332." Art Scene, November, 2008.
Wolff, Elaine. “A counterintuitive guide to FotoSeptiembre.” San Antonio Current, August 25, 2005.
____. "CAM 2008: 'Playing With Time' at Blue Star." San Antonio Current, July 2, 2008.
____. "Artifacts." San Antonio Current, July 9, 2008.
Zimmer, William. “As Kites Fly, Sky’s the Limit.” The New York Times, July 11, 2004.

ONLINE JOURNALS:

Atwell, Wendy. "Stuart Allen." Glasstire, www.glasstire.com, (October 2007).
Beem, Edgar Allen. "Time Passes Photographically in Boston." Yankee Magazine, November 6, 2008
Cedrins, Inara. "Transforming the invisible to tangible poetry." www.artnewsusa.com, October 17, 2007.
Kalstrom, Jeffrey. "Choreographic: world class, lots of fun." www.mnartists.org, August 12, 2006.
Sandhu, Alina. “Luminous Topographies.” San Francisco Art Magazine, www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com (March 2002).

TELEVISION AND RADIO:
"Davis Magazine." DCTV, Davis, CA, November 21, 1996.
"Express." KVIE, Sacramento, February 28, 1996.
Gibson, Lisa. "Stuart Allen: photography and kites." DCTV, Davis, CA, interview, January 21, 1995.SELECTED

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Barkley Evergreen and Partners, Inc, Kansas City, MO
Blue Shield of California, San Francisco
Cache Creek Casino/Resort, Brooks, California
California State University, Stanislaus
Certicom Corporation, Hayward, California
City of Davis Public Art Collection, Davis, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
DiRosa Art Preserve, Napa, California
Downy, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer, Sacramento
Drachen Foundation, Seattle
Edgar Law Firm, Kansas City, MO
Fidelity Investments, Sacramento
Greenberg Traurig, Houston
Hallmark Fine Art Collections, Kansas City, Missouri
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto and Sacramento
Irvine Foundation, San Francisco
Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, Fresno, Roseville, California
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Livingston and Mattecich, Sacramento
McKenna, Long and Aldridge, San Francisco
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
909 Walnut, Kansas City, MO
Novell Inc., Provo, Utah
Sacramento City College, Sacramento
San Antonio Museum of Art
Santana Row, San Jose, California
Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, Kansas City, Missouri
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas
Sysco Corporation, Houston
The Swig Company, San Francisco
Tokyo Kite Museum, Japan
Trumpette, Sacramento
UNESCO, Paris, France
United States Embassy, Astana, Kazakhstan
United States Embassy, Ottawa, Canada
United States Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria
United States Embassy, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
University of California, Davis Health System
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
University of Texas, San Antonio
Wood Rogers, Sacramento