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BORN in Wichita, Kansas, May 7, 1943; raised in Lubbock, Texas.

EDUCATION

Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, B.F.A., 1966.

Independent artist working since 1966 in a wide variety of media including musical and theatrical performances, sculpture, painting, drawing and video, and installations which incorporate any and all of these media.

Taught drawing classes at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1968-69; Guest Artist, University of California at Berkeley, 1971; on faculty of California State University at Fresno, 1971-79.

AWARDS

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1970, 1978, 1985; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986; Bessie Award, New York, 1986; Isadora Duncan Award, San Francisco, 1986; Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco, 1989; Wexner Center for the Arts, Artist's Residency Fellowship, Columbus, Ohio, 1992; Dallas Dance Club Award, Best Club Interior, RED JACKET, 1996; Buddy Holly Walk of Fame Inductee, Lubbock, Texas, 1997.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
Terry Allen: Voidville, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

2004
Voidville and Brands, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Dugout I, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Dugout II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2001
Prints, Drawing, Writing, works by Terry Allen, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
Study Drawings by Terry Allen, Gallery 68, Austin, TX

2000
Terry Allen: Belief (Study Works), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Studies for "Countee Music," Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Works on Paper, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College Art Center, Providence, RI

1999
Terry Allen: IAH Airport Working Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Voices in the Wilderness, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA

1998
Publik Werks, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1997
Terry Allen: Prints 1974-1997, Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Terry Allen: Prints, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

1996
Liquid Assets, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1995
Bronzes & Drawings, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO

1994
Poison Amor (Collaboration with James Drake), Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Voices in the Wilderness, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas Bronzes, Schneider Art Museum, Ashland, Oregon

1993
Voices in the Wilderness, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California

1992
Youth in Asia, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; traveling to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI A Simple Story (Juarez), Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1991
Terry Allen: New Work, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
The Artist's Eye: Terry Allen, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

1989
Big Witness (living in wishes), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Them Ol' Love Songs, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Installation and Concert, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1988
Big Witness (living in wishes), L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Madison Arts Center, Madison, WI; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA John Weber, New York, NY
Terry Allen: Youth in Asia, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

1986
Revelations, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX Wright State University, Dayton, OH John Weber Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA China Night, Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

1985
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX China Night, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA Visual and Aural Mythologies, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

1984
Sprawl/Prowl/Growl, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain (ELAC), Lyon, France Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

1983
Rooms and Stories, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1982
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT 1981 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR

1981
Ring, Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

1980
Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 1979 Lubbock Lights Gallery, Lubbock, TX Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS

1978
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL

1976
Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS 1975 Juarez Series, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1974
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1971
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1970
Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1968
Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2001
Chouinard: A Living Legacy (Chouinard Alumni Exhibition), Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA Art and Wine: Benzinger imagery series, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, VA

2000
Years of Folly: Legacy of Goya's Caprichos, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI (exhibition will travel)

1999
New To Houston: Recent Additions to Houston Collections, The Museum of Arts, Houston, TX

1998
Prints from the Collection of David Durham on loan from the Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, Texas, Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Art - Griffith Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX

1997
Household Goods, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Art Foundry Editions, Santa Fe at Knoedler, New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Downtown, Austin, TX

1996
The Bird Show, West End Gallery, Houston, TX Convergence, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX American Kaleidoscope, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

1995
Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum, New York, NY
Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (exhibition will travel)
The Art Show, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
It's Only Rock n' Roll, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (exhibition will travel)
The Prints of Cirrus Edition, L. A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1994
Mapping, UTSA Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX (will travel) Insite 94, Bi-National Exhibition, San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico

1993
La Frontera-The Border, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; tour: Centrok Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

1992
Printmaking in Texas: The 1980's, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX Profiles II: On Paper, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX, traveling to: Weber State University, Ogden, UT; and Arlington Museum, Arlington, TX Centenary Print Exhibition, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

1991
Positions in the Desert, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
The Political Arm, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY and Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Text Context, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Poets' Walk, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings by Sculptors, Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Singular Visions, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Responsive Witness, The Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
On the Road Selections from the Permanent Collections of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, traveling to: Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa,
OK Drawings: An Exhibition of Artists of the John Weber Gallery, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1990
CCA12, The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Second Annual Invitational, Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Assemblage: Dada and the Surrealist Legacy, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Politics in Print, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL, and New York, NY
Northwest x Southwest—Painted Fiction, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA; Yellowstone Art Center, MT; Bellingham Museum, WA; University of Houston, TX

1989
Heroics Recast, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 10 + 5 From California, Thomas Center, Gainsville, FL
A Different War, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Belingham, WA, traveling to De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincol, MA; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Akron Art Museum, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA Humor in Prints, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1988
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Pence Gallery, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Time, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA

1987
Documents 8, Kassel, West Germany
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA War & Memory, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D. C.

1986
The Allen/Ely Project, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX Lead, Hirschi and Adler Modern, New York, NY
The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Honky Tonk Visions (On West Texas Music: 1936-86), Texas Tech University,Lubbock and others
Text and Image, Holly Soloman Gallery, New York, NY
Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Sculptors' Drawings, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA, and Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow, ID

1985
Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1984
Content & Contemporary Focus 1974-84, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. American & European, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Face to Face/Back to Back, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Strike Restrike: The Revitalized Print, Western Michigan University, MI
Contemporary Works on Paper, University Art Museum, Lafayette,
LA California Drawings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
50 Artists/50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
35 Artists, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Rockefeller Retrospective, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Vietnam: The War and its Aftermath, Chapman College, Guggenheim Gallery, Organized by Richard Turner, Orange, CA Stars, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983
Site Strategies, The Oakland Museum, CA Language Drama Source & Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY Perspectives of Landscape, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Winterworks, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Allen, Henderson, Wegman, Wiley, Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Anderson Ranch Faculty Exhibit '83, Cohen Gallery, Denver, CO
California Current Part II, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
American European Painting and Sculpture Part I, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA
Opening Exhibition/New Space, Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Public Comments, Center on Contemporary Arts, (COCA) Seattle, WA

1982
Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Awards in Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D. C., traveling to: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; and Denver Art Museum Denver, CO Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Exchange Between Artists, 1931-82, Poland-USA, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France New American Graphics 2, Madison Art Center, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; traveled extensively throughout USA
Artist Photographs, Vision #5, Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, CA
Forgotten Dimension, A Survey of Small Sculpture in California Now, Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA (exhibition traveled throughout United States for two years)
In Our Time, 1948-1982 Survey Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
The Destroyed Print, Pratt Manhattan Center, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

1981
Works from Landfall Press, Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, CA
Beauty and the Board Room, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art
Words as Images, sponsored by the Renaissance Society at University of Chicago and White Walls magazine, Bergman Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE Letters from Artists, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Humor in Art, organized by Michael Kurchfeld, Las Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Southern Voice (Terry Allen, Vernon Fisher, Ed McGowin), Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Group Exhibition, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Soundings, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Post Modernist Metaphors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Not Just For Laughs, The New Museum, New York, NY

1980
Terry Allen & Charles Gaines, Phoebe Conally Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA
Cartography, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

1979
7 x 9 Exhibition, organized by Ellen Lanyon, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Image and Object in Contemporary Sculpture, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (exhibitition traveled to P. S. 1, New York, NY)
Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1978
Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhitition/Prints, Droll-Kolbert Gallery, New York, NY
Narrative, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1977
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY 10th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
New Acquisitions Exhibition (Prints), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Narrative: Story of Art 1967-77, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (traveled to the University of California Art Museum, Berkeley; Santa Barbara Art Museum, CA)
The Record As Artwork, Fort Worth Art Museum, TX (traveled throughout U.S.A. and Canada)
Prints, Books, Photographs, Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH
The Modern Era: Bay Area Update, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, (Organized by Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA)
Summer Exhibition, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1977
San Francisco Art Institute Annual, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Watercolors & Related Media by Contemporary Californians, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Texas Artists, American Cultural Center, Paris, France
Personal Information, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Landfall Press, A Survey of Prints (1970-77), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
California Artists, organized by Henry Hopkins, The Hague, Holland Americans in the Biennale, Hudson River Museum, New York, NY

1976
The Great American Rodeo Show, Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, (exhibition traveled to various cities throughout United States in conjunction with their rodeos)
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (exhibition traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.)
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (including 20th National Print Exhibition)

1975
Eight from California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
The Small Scale in Contemporary Art, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Visual/Verbal, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1974
Word Works, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut Creek, CA
Drawings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (organized and expanded with separate catalogue by Nancy Hoffman; also traveled to Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL)
Lithographs from Landfall Press, Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, I Selections from Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Opening Exhibition, Gallerie Doyle, Paris, France
December Drawing Show, Claire S. Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

1973
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawings, Cusack Gallery, Houston, TX Texas Drawings, Smither Gallery, Dallas, TX

1972
Surrealism is Alive & Well in the West, California Institute of Technology (Baxter Art Gallery), Pasadena, CA
The State of California Painting, organized by Michael Walls, sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth Arts Council to tour New Zealand and Australia 14 Los Angeles Painters, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1971
Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla CA
National Invitational Drawing Exhibit, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (Purchase Prize)
Boxed Top Art Show, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Made in California, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
The 73rd Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

1970
1970 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
A Decade of Accomplishment: American Drawings and Prints of the 1960's, Illinois Bell, Chicago, IL
The Sixties, Where It Was, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawing 88, Winn Galleries, Austin, TX

INSTALLATIONS

1999
Voices in the Wilderness, Courthouse Galleries, Arts Center of the Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA

1994
Poison Amor (with James Drake), Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX

1992
A Simple Story (Juarez), four installations, Melodyland, The Perfect Ship, Stations, Vacancy; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Humanature, Oliver Ranch, Geiserville, CA

1989
Big Witness (Living in Wishes), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1988 Big Witness (Living in Wishes), Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Treatment (angel with dirty tracks)

PUBLIC AND OUTDOOR WORKS:

2001
The Book (secret), Morton/Donnelly Trust, Los Angeles, CA

1999
Liquid Assets, Sterling Software, Dallas, TX Countree Music, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX
Stubb (Bar-B-Que Beyond The Grave), Lubbock, TX
Belief, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1998
Ruby Room, Red Jacket, Dallas, TX Symphony Lounge, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
U-Me-Um, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1996
Liquid Assets, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Red Jacket, Nightclub, Dallas, TX

1995
Golden Time, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Culver City, CA
Modern Communication, New Communication Plaza, Kansas City, MO

1994
Notre Denver (gargoyles), New Denver International Airport, Denver, CO

1993
Shaking Man, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA

1992
Humanature, Oliver Ranch, Geiserville, CA

1991
Corporate Head, Poet's Walk, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

1986
Trees, Stuart Collection, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX AT&T; Collection, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Stuart Collection, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, MO
Stanford University Museum of Art, Palo Alto, CA
Tyler Museum of Art Tyler, TX
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Seventh Street Plaza Associates, Los Angeles, CA
City of San Francisco, CA
City of Denver, CO
City of Kansas City, MO
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Culver City, CA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
City of Houston, TX
State of Ohio
City of Lubbock, TX
San Antonio Museum of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Morton/Donnelly Trust

SELECTED CATALOGUES AND BOOKS:

EXIT, Image and Culture, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Olivaris & Assoc., Salamanca, Spain
LANDMARKS, Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection, essays by Robert Storr, Mary Beebe & Jim Stuart DeSilva, interviewed by Joan Simon, Rizzoli, NYC, NY
L. A. Exile, A Guide to Los Angeles Writing 1932-1998, edited by Paul Vangelisti with Evan Calbi, Marsilio Publishers, New York, 1999
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, Mirjam Behek, International Center for Graphic Arts, Minister of Culture, Republic of Slovinia, 1999
Blurring the Boundaries (Installation Art 1969-1996), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, 1997
BUDDHA BOOK (A Meeting of Images), Frank Olinnsky, Chronicle Books, 1997
Scene of the Crime, Ralph Rugoff, MIT Press, 1997
Sunshine Noir (Art in L.A. 1960-1970), Lars Nittve & Helle Crenzien, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1997
American Kaleidoscope, Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art. By Jacquelyn Days Serwer, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 1996
Terry Allen. By Nancy Reddin Keinholz & Patricia Covo Johnson, The Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, ID, 1996
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking. By Joseph Ruzicka, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 1996
Contemporary Art in Texas. By Patricia Covo Johnson & Walter Hopps, Craftsman House, 1995
Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions. By Bruce Davis, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1995
It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art. By David S. Rubin, Prestil-Verlag, Munich-New York, 1995
Insite 94. By Lynda Forsha, Bi-National Catalogue, San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico, 1995
TRAVESIA The Border Issue, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Edited by Tim Girven & John Kraniauskas, REUNION: A RETURN TO JUAREZ, A Radioplay by Terry Allen, 1994
Youth in Asia. By Craig Adcock, Dave Hickey & Roxy Gordon. Touring show organized by Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1993
LA FRONTERA/THE BORDER. By Patricio Chavez & Madeline Grynsztejn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 1993
A Simple Story (Juarez), Terry Allen. By Dave Hickey & Sarah Rogers. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 1992
PROOF: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980. By Charles Desmarias, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 1992
Northwest by Southwest. By Katherine Plake Hough et al. Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1990
A Different War: Vietnam in Art. By Lucy R. Lippard. Whatcom Museum of Art and Real Comet Press, 1990
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection. By Hugh Davies & Ronald J. Onorato, La Jolla, CA, 1990
Heroics Recast. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989
Memory Track. The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1989
Forty Years of California Assemblage. By Henry Hopkins, Wight Art Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1989
Avant-Garde in the Eighties. By Howard N. Fox, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
KaChina Night. By Craig Adcock. Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1986
Sprawl/Prowl/Growl: A Geographic Survey of Works by Terry Allen. By Thierry Raspail, Fernand Braudel, Marcia Tucker, Christine Breton & Patrick Vialle. Ville de Lyon, Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, 1984
Contemporary Works on Paper. University Art Museum, Fletcher Hall, Lafayette, LA, 1984
Strike Restrike: The Revitalized Print. Gallery II, Western Michigan University, 1984
New American Graphics 2. Madison Art Center, Madison WI, 1982
Not Just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion. By Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York, NY, 1981
Landfall Press 1970-1980. Landfall Press, Chicago, IL, 1981
Terry Allen (part of and some in betweens). By Michael Smith. Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Art Alliance, CA, 1981
The Southern Voice: Terry Allen, Vernon Fisher, Ed McGowin. By Susan Freudenheim, Marge Goldwater & Dave Hicker. Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1981 Image & Object in Contemporary Sculpture. By Jay Belloli. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1979
The Great American Rodeo. By Jay Belloli& Richard Koshalek. Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas Christian University Press, 1976
American Narrative/Story Art 1976-77. By Paul Schimmel, Alan Sondheim & Marcia Tucker. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 1976
Juarez Series: Terry Allen. By Paul Schimmel, Michael Walls & Dave Hickey. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, 1975

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES BY TERRY ALLEN:

1994
Poison Amor, (col. with James Drake), published by Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX (essay by Rosetta Brooks)

1992
A Simple Story (Juarez), catalogue design, published by Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (essays by Dave Hickey and Sarah Rogers)

1989
Big Witness (living in wishes), catalogue design, published in conjunction with Adeline Kent Award exhibition (essay by Dave Hickey)

1986
Terry Allen's "Ohio", theater piece and exhibition, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (essay by Dave Hickey)

1985
China Night, text, with acknowledgment by Katherine Funk and Allys Palladino-Craig, Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1985 (essay by Roxy Gordon)

1984
Sprawl/Prowl/Growl, catalogue concept for Sprawl/Prowl/Growl exhibition at l'elac, Lyon, France (essays by Marcia Tucker)

1983
Rooms and Stories, catalogue design, with essays by Linda Forsha, Robert McDonald and Dave Hickey, for La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

1979-1980
Ring, catalogue design, compilation of notes, studies and writings from four-section piece RING (portions have been published as catalogue for exhibition of RING, 1981 at Nelson Museum, Kansas City, MO)

1975
Juarez, compilation of notes, studies and writings from the JUAREZ SERIES (one original and 14 Xerox copies with 10 accompanying tapes). Juarez Catalogue for Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (essays by Paul Schimmel, Michael Walls, and Dave Hickey)

1974
Z-Rocks, single collaborative Xerox novel-piece with George Lewis

1968
Untitled Object Novel (not published)
Heaven and Earth, photo/object novel (not published)

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