b. 1981. Lives and works in Austin, TX
EDUCATION AND SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2014
MFA Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2010
Residencia Internacional de Artistas en Argentina, Buenos Aires, AR
2009
Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
2009
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2007
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2003
BFA University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013
Crosstalk : Sterling Allen & Brad Tucker, Circuit12, Dallas, TX
2011
Housing Edition, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, FTW, TX
2009
Use Your Ilusion, Art Palace, Austin, TX
New Works 09.1 – Housing Edition, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2007
Writesy Drawsy, Art Palace, Austin, TX
2005
The Sterling Allen and Jonathan Marshall Show, Art Palace, Austin, TX
2003
Red Hot American Summer, Fresh Up Club, Austin, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Rumpus Room, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Shirts and Skins, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2013
No Name, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2012
Young Curators New Ideas IV, Meulensteen, New York, NY
Evidence of Houdini’s Return, AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, TX
2010
Full Court Press, Inman Gallery Annex, Houston, TX
2009
ABC Project, VOLTA NY, Art Palace, New York, NY
2008
Palace Does Dallas, Road Agent, Dallas, TX
2007
Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2006
Native Sons: Talent in Texas, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2005
22 to Watch: New Art in Austin, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
OKAY MOUNTAIN COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2013
Long Plays, Mark Moore Gallery (solo), Culver City, CA
2012
4-Wheeler Rollover, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
2012
Cress Gallery (solo), Univ of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN
2011
Ultrasonic VI, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
First Take: Okay Mountain, Blaffer Art Museum (solo), Houston, TX
2010
Prospect 1.5, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010
New Works: Okay Mountain (solo), Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Benefit Plate, Freight + Volume (solo), New York, NY
Big Strange Mystery (solo), Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2009
Corner Store, PULSE Miami, Arthouse, Miami, FL
2008
It’s Gonna Be Reverything (solo), Paragraph, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bennett, Steve, “He’s turning recycling into a work of art”, San Antonio Express-
News, 18 March 2009
Boehl, Dan, “Artist’s Space: Sterling Allen”. …might be good 118, 13 March
2009
Britt, Douglas, “Artist Sterling Allen makes tasty alphabet soup”, Houston
Chronicle, 1 May 2009.
Campbell, Andy, ed. Essays by Alex Codlin, et. al. Making It Together
(exhibition catalogue). Austin : Creative Research Lab/University of
Texas at Austin: 2006
Castillo, Salvador, “Making It Together,” Austin Chronicle, vol. 25 , no. 52 , 25
Aug. 2006.
Cohen, Rebecca S., “New Art in Austin: 22 to Watch,” Artlies 48 (Fall 2005).
Evans, Ariel, "Sterling Allen: Use Your Ilusion," Artlies, Issue 64 (Winter 2009).
Geha, Katie, “Sterling Allen: Inman Gallery Annex”. …might be good 150, 18
June 2010
Housefield, James. 22 to Watch: New Art in Austin (exhibition catalogue) Austin
Museum of Art: 2005.
Johnson, Patricia C., "A State of Mind", Houston Chronicle, 17 August 2007.
Kamps, Toby, Nexus Texas (exhibition catalogue), Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston: 2007.
Koper, Rachel, "Sterling Allen Residencies!" Austin Chronicle, vol. 27, no. 42, 20
June 2008.
Koper, Rachel, "Sterling Allen:The Allen transformer as self-generator..."
Austin Chronicle, vol. 26, no. 43, 29 June 2007.
Lozano, Ivan, "Sterling Allen: Writesy Drawsy," …might be good 90 . 2 June
2007.
Maxwell, Clayton, “Show and Sell”, Austin Chronicle, vol. 27, no. 28, 14 March
2008
Moore, Roger, "Lead animator is drawn to project," Orlando Sentinal, 14 July
2006.
Seale, Emily, “Cults of Personality”, San Antonio Current, 29 April 2009.
Shay, Estelle, "Sterling Allen on A Scanner Darkly," Cinefex, no. 107
(Oct. 2006).
Valdez, Michelle, "Sterling Allen: Writesy Drawsy," Artlies, Issue 55 (Fall 2007).
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
