Regina Allen, gruvkitty9@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois: MFA in Painting from the Department of Art Theory and Practice.
Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri: BFA in Painting; AB in English Literature. Graduated with honors. Milovich & Harford Award. Edmund Henry Wuerpel Award.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Big Medium Austin Studio Tour, The Carver Museum, Austin, TX
Convergence: A Fusion of Form, Frame, and Fantasy, Killeen, TX
This Land, Art Fluent, www.art-fluent.com
2023 Selected Artist for the Austin Public Libraries Seven Branches AIPP Project, Manchaca
Branch. Work to be installed in 2024.
2022 Austin Studio Tour, Austin, Texas
The People's Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Upper Library Gallery, Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas
Extinction, Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada
2021 Water, Downtowner Gallery, Round Rock, Texas
2020 Overview, Landscapes from Above (solo show), Saulsbury Gallery, Cultural Activities
Center, Temple, Texas
Overview Effect, Old Bakery & Emporium Gallery, Austin, Texas
WEST Austin Studio Tour, The Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 Overview Effect (solo show), ABP Gallery, Austin, Texas
WEST Austin Studio Tour, The McNeill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2018 Featured Artists (Transportation Show), McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, Texas
Big Show, Round Rock Arts, Texas State University, Round Rock, Texas
The Texas National, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas, Juror: Jed Perl
WEST Austin Studio Tour, The McNeill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2017 Overview Effect (solo show), Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2016 Naissance, Gallery 701, The Long Center, Austin, Texas
2015 From Mountains to Sea, Art. Science. Gallery., Austin, Texas
Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2014 E.A.S.T., 701 Tillery St Studios, Austin, Texas
Gallery Ware Frames Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, England
2013 Group Show, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2012 Future-Perfect-In-Past Tense, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, Texas
The Texas National, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas, Juror: David Hicks
Presidential Losers, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, Texas, Portraits of all the losing
Presidential candidates-Ross Perot)
2011 E.A.S.T., Maison D’Etoile, Austin, Texas
Brand 40 National Juried Exhibition Works on Paper, Glendale, California, Juror: Peter
Frank
2010 The Texas National, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas, Juror: Judy Pfaff
2009 Be a Doll, Estel Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Femme on Femme, Cypresss College Art Gallery, Cypress, California, curated by Cari
Marshall
2007 Battle of the Sexes, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2006 Black Market, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group Show, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Tar Fest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
2005 May Feature, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas
Just a Taste, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas
2002 The Girls Next Door (solo show), Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Snow Globe Invitational, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinoi
Venus, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Something Old, Something New, Lyonswier Gallery, New York City, NY
Artists Alumni, Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois
1998 Group Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
1997 In the Image of Woman, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996 Gary Justis Appoints Three, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Navy Pier Show, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Surfacing, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Artist Inc. Live Austin, Fellow, 2016. City fellowship about the business of art.
PUBLICATIONS
HuffPost Arts & Culture, Presidential Losers, Featured Art Work, November 15, 2012
Plum Magazine, Featured Artist, Spring/Summer 2008
New American Paintings, Issue #60
The Austin Chronicle, Just a Taste, February 2005
The Northwestern Observer, Artists Alumni Show, Review, May 2001
The Chicago Reader, Gary Justus Appoints Three, January 1996
ILLUSTRATION
Edge of Safety, Bombardier Books, Cover Art, 2022
Fashion Show Benefit for Cumberland Heights, program and invitation art, 2019, 2021
Jung, Crop Circles & The Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine, North Atlantic Books, Cover Art, 2011
The American Book Review, Cover Art, November/December 2005
Beneath the Axis of Evil, So New Media Books, Cover Art, 2003
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Harper Collins, Cover Art, 2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas. August 2016- present, Professor of Visual Art. August 2017-2022, Visual Art Program Coordinator. January 2012-August 2016, Adjunct Professor. College and ECHS classes. 2-D Design, Art Appreciation, Painting I, Art History I and II.
Austin Community College, Austin, Texas. 2003-2005, Adjunct Associate Professor. 2-D Design, Drawing I.
Lincoln University (Historically Black College), Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. 2002. Instructor. Drawing I, Painting I.
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2001. Instructor. Beginning & Advanced Watercolor.
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania. 2001. Beginning Drawing, Watercolor.
Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. 1999-2000. Instructor, Drawing I.
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois. 1999-2000. Instructor. Drawing I, Advanced Drawing, Painting I.
The Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1996-99. Art History Seminar for AP History students.
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois. 1995-98. Advanced Drawing, Oil Painting, Watercolor, Still Life Drawing, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Painting.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 1995. Instructor. 2-D Design.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Creative Director:
Baskitz, Los Angeles, CA 2007-2011
Designed and executed corporate gifts, promotional projects, movie studio pitch projects and/or wrap reports, and other gifts or PR projects. Also led production and trained other employees.
Decorative painter:
Bella Decorative Painting, Chicago, Illinois. 1997-2000
Co-owner, murals, wall finishes, stenciling, and painted furniture.
Simes Studios, Chicago, Illinois. 1996-97
Mural and decorative arts painter
Kozan Studios, Chicago, Illinois. 1995-96
Mural and decorative arts painter
