Delaney Allen is an American photographer whose work investigates self-exploration. Incorporating the unique approach using self-portraiture, still-life and landscape photography, he forms an environment around familiar, yet personal emotions.
He has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Most recently, he was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s “51 Instagram Photographers To Follow” for 2016. In 2015 he was chosen as “One Of Portland’s Five Artists To Watch” by the Portland Monthly. He was 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 currently gallery represented regionally by Nationale in Portland, Oregon.
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
Emerging Complexity, The Print Space Gallery, London, England, November 2016
Indecisice 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
Identity: Psychological Portraiture, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June - August 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
All Most Heaven, Maven, Berlin, Germany, December 2010
Gente Lugares Y Las Rocas De Colores, El Beso Gallery, Madrid, Spain, October 2010
Publications
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
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (library)
Beinecke Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT (library)
Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (library)
Abbreviated Client List.
Arrowhead Water, Wieden+Kennedy, Anheuser Busch, Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel Portland, Fader Magazine, Hearst Publishing, Domino Records
*Full client list available upon request.