Delaney Allen is an artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, FOAM, and Aperture. His work is held in various collections, including most recent acquisitions by Soho House Portland and Miami. Allen has published multiple books that are held in the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art, Beinecke Library at Yale University, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Tokyo Institute of Photography. He currently resides in Dallas, Texas.
CONTACT
EDUCATION
MFA VISUAL STUDIES, PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART, 2010
BFA MEDIA STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - ARLINGTON, 2002
BOOKS
Strange Nature, Jane & Jeremy, 2022
Red Orange, Jane & Jeremy, 2019
Between Here and There, Self-published, 2010
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
Apple, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, British Airways, Columbia Sportswear, Domino Records, Fader Magazine, HarperCollins, Mercedes Benz, The New Yorker, New York Times, Subpop Records, Wall Street Journal, WeTransfer
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, South Korea, September - November, 2025
Marfa Invitational, Saint George Hall, Marfa TX, May 2025
Altars (Solo Show), Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas TX, June - July 2024
You Are Here, Photoville, New York NY, October - December 2023
Outs, Filter, Chicago IL, July - August 2022
A Reverberation (Solo Show), Commodore Perry Estate, Austin TX, July 2021 - June 2022
Paris Experiences Photo Festival, various outdoor locations, Paris, France, 2020
Photography On A Postcard At PhotoLondon, Somerset House, London England, May 2019
The Garden, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville AR, April - October 2018
Stranger Comes To Town, MaryMary Projects, New York NY, March 2018
Indecisive Moment, Robert Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, October - December 2017
Seeing Is A Nervous Habit, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington TX, September - October 2017
Super Nature, Galerie Blanc, Montreal Quebec, June - December 2017
Emerging Complexity, Crave Gallery, London England, November 2016
Indecisive Moment, Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon South Korea, November 2016
Photography Is Magic, Aperture Foundation, New York NY, July - August 2016
ARTIFACT (Solo Show), Nationale, Portland OR, April - May 2016
Future Tense, University of New Mexico Museum, Albuquerque NM, June - September 2016
A Person Is A Noun: Contemporary Portrait Photography, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee WI, January - March 2016
This Side Of Paradise, Houston Center of Photography, Houston TX, October - November 2015
Through The Lens: Portraiture And Self Portraiture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR, November 2014 - January 2015
A Personal Nature (Solo Show), Nationale, Portland OR, August - October 2013
Identity: Psychological Portraiture, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco CA, June - August 2013
Painting A Portrait (Solo Show), Nationale, Portland OR, April 2012
What's Next? A Search To The Future Of Photography, Foam Museum, Amsterdam Netherlands, November - December 2011
SELECT PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Strange Nature, Artist Book, Jane & Jeremy Publishing, 2023
Land: Photographs That Make You Think, Select Images, Abrams Publishing, 2022
Outs, Select Images, Skylark Editions, 2022
New Flesh, Select Images, Gnomic Publishing, 2019
Red Orange, Artist Book, Jane & Jeremy Publishing, 2019
Nicotine Magazine, Issue Four, “BacteriA”, Self Published, 2018
Q&A: Delaney Allen - Red Orange, The Heavy Collective, 2018
Plastik Magazine, Volume 34, Artist Profile, Plastik Studios Publishing, 2018
Metal Magazine, Artist Profile, Premium Media, 2018
Dear Dave, Select Images, David Rhodes Publishing, 2015
Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual And Manifesto, Select Images, Aperture, 2015
Tell Mum Everything Is OK No. 6, Select Images, FPCF, 2015
Of The Afternoon #7, Artist Profile, Motto Distribution, 2015
Moral Phobia, Select Images, Gudberg Nerger Publishing, 2015
10x10 American Photobooks, Select Images, Bookdummypress, 2013
Visual Rebellion, Selected images, Gestalten Publishing, 2012
Tell Mum Everything Is OK No. 4, Selected Images, FPCF, 2011
Between Here and There, Artist Book, Self Published, 2010
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Commodore Perry Estate Artist in Residence, 2021, Daylight Photo Award Juror's Pick, 2019, Artists To Watch, Portland Monthly Magazine, 2015, Magenta Forward Emerging Photographers, 2013, Best Of 2010 Book List, Photo-Eye Magazine, 2010
COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, SOHO House Portland, Auberge Resorts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (library), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (library), Beinecke Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT (library), Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (library)