REGINA ALLEN
Austin, Texas | gruvkitty9@gmail.com | www.reginaallen.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Overview, Landscapes from Above, Saulsbury Gallery, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas
2020 Overview Effect, Old Bakery & Emporium Gallery, Austin, Texas
2019 Overview Effect, ABP Gallery, Austin, Texas
2017 Overview, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2002 The Girls Next Door, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Small Works, Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, Texas; Vantage Point, Central Texas College Gallery, Texas
2025 Alumnae Art Exhibit, Harpeth Hall School Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2024 The Austin Tour Exhibit, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, Texas; Convergence: A Fusion of Form, Frame, and Fantasy, Killeen, Texas; This Land, ArtFluent.com
2023 The People’s Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas
2022 Extinction, Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada
2021 Water, Downtowner Gallery, Round Rock, Texas
2020 Group Show, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 WEST Austin Studio Tour, Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2018 Featured Artist, McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, Texas; Big Show, Round Rock Arts, Texas State University, Round Rock, Texas; The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: Jed Perl); WEST Austin Studio Tour, Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2016 Naissance, Gallery 701, The Long Center, Austin, Texas; Full Circle, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2015 From Mountains to Sea, Art.Science.Gallery., Austin, Texas
2014 EAST Austin Studio Tour, 701 Tillery St Studios, Austin, Texas; Group Show, Gallery Ware Frames Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, England
2013 Full Circle, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2012 Future-Perfect-In-Past Tense, GrayDuck Gallery, Austin, Texas; The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: David Hickey); Presidential Losers, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, Texas
2011 EAST Austin Studio Tour, Maison D’Etoile, Austin, Texas; Brand 40 National Juried Exhibition: Works on Paper, Glendale, California (juror: Peter Frank)
2010 The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: Judy Pfaff)
2009 Be a Doll, Estel Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee; Femme on Femme, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, California
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 New American Paintings, Issue #60; May Feature, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas; Just a Taste, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas
2002 The Girls Next Door, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Snow Globe Invitational, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Venus, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Something Old, Something New, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, New York; 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; Surfacing, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2023 Art in Public Places Project, Austin Public Libraries — selected artist, seven branches
2016 Artist Inc. Austin — Fellow
1990 Milovich & Harford Award in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
1988 Edmund Henry Wuerpel Award in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
St. Ermin’s Hotel, London, England
Hyatt Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Austin Public Libraries — Art in Public Places Project, selected artist, 2023
PUBLICATIONS & ILLUSTRATION
2022 Edge of Safety, Bombardier Books, cover art
2011 Jung, Crop Circles & The Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine, North Atlantic Books, cover art
2005 The American Book Review, cover art, November/December issue
2003 Beneath the Axis of Evil, So New Media Books, cover art
2002 The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, HarperCollins, cover art
SELECTED PRESS
The Austin Chronicle, “Austin Studio Tour is All Over the Map,” November 11, 2022
The Austin Chronicle, “WEST Pop-Up at the Neill-Cochran House Museum,” May 18, 2018
HuffPost Arts & Culture, “Presidential Losers,” featured artwork, November 15, 2012
Plum Magazine, featured artist, Spring/Summer 2008
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
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois — MFA in Art Theory and Practice, concentration in painting
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri — BFA in Painting; AB in English Literature; graduated with honors
Sections
REGINA ALLEN
Austin, Texas | gruvkitty9@gmail.com | www.reginaallen.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Overview, Landscapes from Above, Saulsbury Gallery, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas
2020 Overview Effect, Old Bakery & Emporium Gallery, Austin, Texas
2019 Overview Effect, ABP Gallery, Austin, Texas
2017 Overview, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2002 The Girls Next Door, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Small Works, Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, Texas; Vantage Point, Central Texas College Gallery, Texas
2025 Alumnae Art Exhibit, Harpeth Hall School Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2024 The Austin Tour Exhibit, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, Texas; Convergence: A Fusion of Form, Frame, and Fantasy, Killeen, Texas; This Land, ArtFluent.com
2023 The People’s Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas
2022 Extinction, Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada
2021 Water, Downtowner Gallery, Round Rock, Texas
2020 Group Show, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 WEST Austin Studio Tour, Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2018 Featured Artist, McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, Texas; Big Show, Round Rock Arts, Texas State University, Round Rock, Texas; The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: Jed Perl); WEST Austin Studio Tour, Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas
2016 Naissance, Gallery 701, The Long Center, Austin, Texas; Full Circle, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2015 From Mountains to Sea, Art.Science.Gallery., Austin, Texas
2014 EAST Austin Studio Tour, 701 Tillery St Studios, Austin, Texas; Group Show, Gallery Ware Frames Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, England
2013 Full Circle, Central Texas College Gallery, Killeen, Texas
2012 Future-Perfect-In-Past Tense, GrayDuck Gallery, Austin, Texas; The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: David Hickey); Presidential Losers, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, Texas
2011 EAST Austin Studio Tour, Maison D’Etoile, Austin, Texas; Brand 40 National Juried Exhibition: Works on Paper, Glendale, California (juror: Peter Frank)
2010 The Texas National, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas (juror: Judy Pfaff)
2009 Be a Doll, Estel Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee; Femme on Femme, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, California
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 New American Paintings, Issue #60; May Feature, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas; Just a Taste, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas
2002 The Girls Next Door, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Snow Globe Invitational, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Venus, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Something Old, Something New, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, New York; 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; Surfacing, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2023 Art in Public Places Project, Austin Public Libraries — selected artist, seven branches
2016 Artist Inc. Austin — Fellow
1990 Milovich & Harford Award in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
1988 Edmund Henry Wuerpel Award in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
St. Ermin’s Hotel, London, England
Hyatt Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Austin Public Libraries — Art in Public Places Project, selected artist, 2023
PUBLICATIONS & ILLUSTRATION
2022 Edge of Safety, Bombardier Books, cover art
2011 Jung, Crop Circles & The Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine, North Atlantic Books, cover art
2005 The American Book Review, cover art, November/December issue
2003 Beneath the Axis of Evil, So New Media Books, cover art
2002 The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, HarperCollins, cover art
SELECTED PRESS
The Austin Chronicle, “Austin Studio Tour is All Over the Map,” November 11, 2022
The Austin Chronicle, “WEST Pop-Up at the Neill-Cochran House Museum,” May 18, 2018
HuffPost Arts & Culture, “Presidential Losers,” featured artwork, November 15, 2012
Plum Magazine, featured artist, Spring/Summer 2008
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
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois — MFA in Art Theory and Practice, concentration in painting
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri — BFA in Painting; AB in English Literature; graduated with honors
Sections