STUART ALLEN

b. 1970, Wichita, Kansas, USA

Stuart Allen is an artist whose work deals with fundamental elements of perception such as light, gravity and space. He has shown photographs and sculptures in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad, and his work is found in many private and public collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Harry Ransom Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, San Antonio Museum of Art, the Wichita Art Museum, Tokyo Kite Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the DiRosa Art Preserve, and U.S. Embassy collections in Canada, Bulgaria and the Republic of Georgia.

Allen has completed many permanent public art commissions, including the U.S. Embassy, the City of San Antonio, Kansas University, Trinity University, Butler College, University of Texas, San Antonio and the Police Headquarters building in Davis, CA. His work has been published in a variety of books and journals including: Picturing California's Other Landscape: the Great Central Valley, Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography, Zyzzyva and Artweek. Allen has lectured or served as a visiting artist at many fine institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Weisman Art Museum, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a number of university art departments nationwide.

Allen studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the photography and video department of the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. He is currently based in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, son and daughter.