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Delaney Allen, Allen Delaney. People get confused addressing me. If his name is Delaney then she must be a girl but what about Allen? I state my name and gender yet people question what is before them. The basis of photography is fact. We’re taught to believe the boundaries of the frame represent an understanding. Yet, given the opportunities to construct, I find my condition factoring into play. Has this perplexity surrounding my name been an underlying theme all along while I create in a medium known for fact?
Questioning can be more important than the answer. We’ve become well versed in the language of photography. We speak a form of it at this time familiarizing ourselves with belief. But what occurs when left to examine a diverse, distorted presentation? Are we able to accept a fictitious reality as authentic evidence? While maneuvering the realm of storytelling, I experiment with presenting a narrative unique to itself. Combining noted exercises within photography - portraiture, still-life and landscape - I explore establishing recognizable themes while entrusting the viewer to discard their perceived notion of a conventional, linear edit. Images sit side by side with unknown correlations yet given the time they unfold to illustrate pieces of a puzzle. Further, individual fragments of said puzzle are exhibited to stand alone, if needed, confessing that thousand words of ambiguous worth. Ultimately those questions that have arisen contain universal, understood answers after exploration.
Delaney Allen is an American photographer whose work investigates self-exploration while surveying and masking varying objectives within photography. Employing the use of self-portraiture, still-life and landscape, Allen constructs an individualized path as the collections intersect in storytelling. He has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally including Foam (Amsterdam) and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville) . He was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s “51 Instagram Photographers To Follow” for 2016, awarded as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation in 2013 and was chosen to attend Alec Soth’s Camp For Socially Awkward Storytellers in the same year. His first publication, Between Here And There, was awarded “Best Books Of 2010” by Photo-Eye Magazine. He holds a BFA in media arts from the University of Texas - Arlington ('03) and an MFA in visual studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art (’10). He currently splits time between Oregon and Texas and is represented commercially by Redeye.
Solo Exhibitions
ARTIFACT, Nationale, Portland, OR, April - May, 2016
Getting Lost, Nationale, Portland, OR, October - November 2014
A Personal Nature, Nationale, Portland, OR, September - October 2013
Painting a Portrait, Nationale, Portland, OR, April 2012
In Visibility, Nationale, Portland, OR, January 2011
Group Exhibitions
Wanderlust, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019
Photography On A Postcard At PhotoLondon, Somerset House, London, UK, May 2018
The Garden, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, April - October 2018
Wish You Were Here, Vol 4 (Photography Month Of Los Angeles), The Line, Los Angeles, CA, April 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
Seascapes, Green l Gonzalez, Berlin, Germany, August, 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
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: New Photographic Work By Texas Artists, 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
About Desire, White Box Gallery, Portland, OR, December 2013 - January 2014
10x10 American Photobooks, Toyko Institute Of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, September - October 2013
Blog Reblog, Signal Gallery, New York, NY, August 2013
Identity: Psychological Portraiture, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June - August 2013
Blog Reblog, Austin Center for Photography, Austin, TX, May 2013
All About Color, Black Lagoon Gallery, Austin, TX, August 2012
What’s Next? A Search To The Future Of Photography, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November - December 2011
Horizon: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR, April 2011
Press, Publications, Interviews, Etc
Plastik Magazine, Volume 34, Artist Profile, Plastik Studios Publishing, 2018
Metal Magazine, Artist Profile, Premium Media, 2018
Dear Dave, Selected Images, David Rhodes Publishing, 2015
ARTIFACT, Artist Book, Self Published, 2016
Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual And Manifesto, Selected Images, Aperture, 2015
Tell Mum Everything Is OK No. 6, Selected Images, FPCF, 2015
Of The Afternoon #7, Artist Profile, Motto Distribution, 2015
Moral Phobia, Selected Images, Gudberg Nerger Publishing, 2015
Getting Lost, Artist Book, Publication Studio, 2014
In Conversation: Delaney Allen, Ty Ennis And Jaik Faulk, Publication Studio, 2014
A Personal Nature, Artist Book, Publication Studio, 2013
10x10 American Photobooks, Selected Images, Bookdummypress, 2013
Painting A Portrait, Artist Book, Publication Studio, 2012
Visual Rebellion, Selected images, Gestalten Publishing, 2012
We Have Begun Our Final Descent, Self-Published Artist Book, 2011
Reunion, Volume One, The Dallas Review, Artist Profile, 2011
Tell Mum Everything Is OK No. 4, Selected Images, FPCF, 2011
Between Here and There, Artist Book, Publication Studio, 2010
Lectures & Artist Visits
Milwaukee Institute of Art And Design, Milwaukee, WI
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
University of Texas - Arlington, Arlington, TX
Nationale, Portland, OR
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
About Desire, White Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Getting To Know You(Tube), Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
Awards & Residencies
Artists To Watch, Portland Monthly Magazine, 2015
Alec Soth’s Little Brown Mushroom Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers, 2013
Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Emerging Photographers, selected, 2013
Best Of 2010 Book List, Photo-Eye Magazine, 2010
Caldera Artist Residency, 2009
Collections
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (library)
Beinecke Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT (library)
Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (library)
Partial Publication / Client List
Anheuser-Busch, Apple, Arrowhead Water, Bloomberg Businessweek, British Airways, Domino Records, Fader Magazine, FastCompany, Hearst Publishing, Manager Magazin, Manchester International Festival, Mercedes Benz, Nylon, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, Refinery29, Subpop Records, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Travel Portland, Vice, WeTransfer.