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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Within the Bittersweet, Gammill Gallery at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Within the Bittersweet, solo exhibition curated by Sarah Odens, Biggen Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2021
Dangerous Landscapes; solo exhibition of photographs in conversation with 19th Century prints; curated by Dr. Teresa Cribelli, Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama; UA Gallery at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2018
Unsoiled, solo exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery at Governor’s State University, University Park, IL
2017
Unsoiled, solo exhibition, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2016
First Light, Public art installation at the Homewood Public Library, Homewood, IL
2015
Unsoiled, solo exhibition, Arrowhead Gallery, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
2014
Ctrl+P, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Unsoiled, solo exhibition, Performing Arts Center Gallery, Illinois Central College, Peoria, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Ways of Seeing: Art and the Environment curated by Dr. Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, Chief Curator, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Borderwaters; guest curated by Dr. Elizbeth Hawley, lecturer of Art in America and Contemporary Art, Santa Clara University; Alabama Contemporary, Mobile, AL
Mother Nature, Mother Nurture; guest curated by Kariann Fuqua, Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Mississippi; Samford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2022
Our Air; outdoor muti-media installation with collaborators Karen Brummand and Holland Hopson; supported by the Verdant Fund and the Andy Warhol Foundation; Tuscaloosa, AL
8, guest curated by the Fuel and Lumber Company, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA
Silvereye Benefit Exhibition, Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Uncanny: Contemporary Southern Photography, guest curated by Maria Kelly, Associate Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Norman Shannon and Emmy Lou P. Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
F22 Prints Pop-up Exhibition, curated by Timothy Campos, Filter Photo Gallery, Chicago, IL
Perpetual Ebb, curated by Eli Craven, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
UA Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2021
Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection, curated by Sarah Kennel and Maria Kelly, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Four Degrees: Eco-anxiety and Climate Change, curated and presented by the Humble Arts Foundation, online
Context 2021, juried by Juli Lowe, Director of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
F22 Prints Pop-up Exhibition, curated by Timothy Campos, West Town Pop Up Project Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
PhotoNOLA 2020, open-air exhibition sponsored by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, Nola Fete, New Orleans, LA
Two Way Lens: Portraits as Empathy, curated and presented by the Humble Arts Foundation, online
Portfolio 2020, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
Convergence: UA Studio Art Faculty, The University of Alabama Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
Unsoiled permanent installation in the King County Children and Family Justice Center’s juvenile court building, Seattle, WA
2019
Developed Work, juried by Linda Robinson, Founder, Gallery Director, Midwest Center for Photography, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
Conversations Over Beer, durational one-night community art project curated by Mark Jeffery for the Terrain Biennial Block Party, Chicago, IL
UA Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2018
Environment Documneta, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017
UA Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2015
Environment of Concern, Chicago Theological Union, Chicago, IL
2014
New Landscapes, Gallery 19, Chicago, IL
2013
Process of Subtraction, The Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL
Loose Cooperation, Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX
Almost Real, two-person show with James Bellucci, Azimuth Projects, Chicago, IL
Act of Gravitas, Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago, IL
Climate of Uncertainty, curated by Laura Fatemi, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2012
In Control, MDW Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Constructed/Ambiguous Space, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Emerging Artists, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2011
Curious Construction, Public art installation in the CTA brown line Merchandise Mart Stop, Chicago, IL
2010
Disturbing Reality, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009
39 Verbs, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Yield, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL
Remember Me When I’m Dead, Brooklyn Artillery Art Fair, Fleetwing Gallery Booth, Brooklyn, NY
In That Gold Land, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Next Art Fair, Harold Arts Booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Intervention, Vespine Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lost, Forgotten, Erased or Misplaced, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, N
2008
I Know What You Did Last Summer, Co. Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Open, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Photography School: A Group Crit, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
31 under 31: Young Women In Art Photography Now, 3rd Ward, sponsored by the Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH
Cisco Systems Corporate Art Collection, Durham, NC
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
King County Portable Artworks Collection, Seattle, WA
LECTURES AND PUBLIC TALKS
2023
Artist Talk, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2022
Artist Lecture, Within the Bittersweet, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Panel: Art, Ecology, and Environmental Catastrophe in the Americas: Floods, Fogs, and Toxins, Chaired by Caroline Gillaspie, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn, Museum, presented at the 2022 SECAC Conference, Baltimore, MD
Panel Conversation: Photographic World-Building - 3 Artists: Aimée Beaubien, Allison Grant and Guanyu Xu, moderated by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, SF Camerawork, held virtually
Lightening Talk, Within the Bittersweet, Climate Resiliency Symposium, Auburn, AL
2021
Curator Tour, Lucinda Bunnen: Inward Outward, Forward, Atlanta Contemporary
Panel Discussion An Uncertain Climate: Alabama in the age of Climate Change, with Dr. Teresa Cribelli, Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama; Christin Basset, Scientist/Engineer III, Cherokee Nation in support of NOAA’s Weather Program Office; and Marshella Hood, Activist Against Environmental Racism; University of Alabama
Lecture, Within the Bittersweet, Appalachian State University via zoom, Boone, NC
2020
Gallery Talk, Portfolio 2020, Atlanta Photography Group, via zoom, Atlanta, GA
Artist Talk, Within the Bittersweet, Northeastern Illinois University, via zoom, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Within the Bittersweet, Dominican University of California via zoom, San Rafael, CA
2018
Gallery Talk, Unsoiled, Governor’s State University
Presentation, Visual Literacy, Alabama Art Education Association Annual Conference
2017
Disruptive Perspectives: Conversation with the Curators, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Unsoiled, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2016
Panelist, Getting Seen, Getting Shown, with Eric Luta, Bridget Melloy, and Rosann Weiss, moderated by Jess Dugan, SPE Midwest Conference, St. Louis, MO
Conversation, The Elusive Present, with Alice Hargrave, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015
Artist Talk, Environment of Concern, Mary-Frances and Bill Veek Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Conversation, Oblivion, with Doug Fogelson, David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Unsoiled, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
2014
Panelist, New Landscapes with Anastasia Samoylova and moderator Sarah Jamison, Latitude, Chicago, IL
Panelist, Photography: In the Vernacular with Greg Harris and Jeff Phillips, moderated by Pepper Kelly, Intuit Center for Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
Lecture Performance, Procreativity 101: Making Art Babies, with Alberto Aguilar, Lise Haller Baggesen, Jennifer Steele, and Tselanie Townsend, sponsored by Homeroom, Hungry Brain, Chicago, IL
Lecture, Hyperlore, Perspectives Gallery, Chicago, IL
Conversation with Paul-David Young and Jason Lazarus, Crowded House Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
Moderator, Panel Discussion: The MFA and Contemporary Practitioners with panelists Alberto Aguilar, Anna Cerniglia, Barbara DeGenevieve, Marzena Abrahamik, Justin Schmitz, Latitude, Chicago, IL
Curator’s Talk, Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Conversation with Michelle Grabner, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Conversation with Brett Kashmere and Lester Munson, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Lecture, Collection, Preservation, and Restoration as Contemporary Art Practice, Latitude, Chicago, IL
Conversation with Randy Harold, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022
Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, PA
Verdant Fund Grant, with collaborators Karen Brummund and Holland Hopson, Alabama
Alabama Contemporary Exhibition Funding, Mobile, AL
Gay Burke Memorial Fellowship, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Birmingham, AL
2020
CARI Joint-Pilot Arts Research Grant with collaborators Dr. Teresa Cribelli and Dr. Joan Barth, University of Alabama
Portfolio 2020 Purchase Award, Atlanta Center for Photography
Photo NOLA Review Prize 3rd Place Recipient
2019
Developed Work Fellowship, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2018
Office of Research and Economic Development Internal Funding Grant, University of Alabama
2016
Faculty Development Grant, Columbia College Chicago
2014
Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant
2012
Faculty Development Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, Columbia College Chicago
City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant
2011
City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant
2010
City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
LenScratch, Photographers on Photographers: Alayna N. Purnell in Conversation with Allison Grant
2021
Monthly Photography Magazine, A District the Exudes Harm, feature and interview with Youngjoo Kim
The Luupe - 100 Visions of Motherhood, feature by Keren Sachs
Strange Fire Collective - Allison Grant: Q&A, interview with Jess T. Dugan
2020
Atlanta Photography Group - Portfolio 2020 Artist Spotlight: Allxsison Grant, interview with Donna Garcia
Buzz Feed - These Powerful Photos Prove How Universal Motherhood Really Is, by Kate Bubacz
2019
Pictura Gallery's Photo Curious Blog - Allison Grant Guides Us to Consider the Shadows, profile by Lisa Woodward
2013
Don/Dean - Interview, with Cole Don Kelley and Jessica Dean Camp
2012
F-Stop Magazine - Feature, Issue #56
2010
LensScratch - Feature, by Aline Smithson
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2009
Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Studies, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2004