Through The Body, Light Art Space, Silver City, NM, 2022
I.D.E.A: Black Lives Matter, Arts Mid-Hudson, The Pocantico Center, Tarrytown, NY, 2022
Golden - 50 and Older Exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, 2022
Exposed 2022, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA, 2022
6th Annual 5x5x5 Art Show, River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, LA, 2021-22
PHOTOcentric 2021, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2021-2022
BAC Photo Critique Group Exhibition, The Nancy Willard & Eric Lindbloom Artist-Run Project Space, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021-2022
Plastic Camera Show, Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2021
Portraits, Queen City 15 Fine Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021
Heroes, Heroines, and Heroics, Flagler County Art League, Palm Coast, FL, 2021
Photography: Your Vision, D’art Gallery, Denver, CO, 2021
Members Show, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, 2021
5x5x5 Miniature Art, [Merit Award], River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, LA, 2020
Small Works Holiday Show - Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2020
An Artful Evening Art Auction, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, 2020.
42nd Annual Photography Regional Salon Show, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY, 2020.
11th Annual 10x10x10 Tieton Exhibition, Tieton Arts & Humanities Center, Tieton, WA, 2020
Made in NY 2020, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2020
Abstract, Queen City 15 Fine Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2020.
Texas National Competition, Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, 2020
Annual Spring Small Works Show, Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
Photowork - Beyond 20/20, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2020
PHOTOcentric 2019, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2019-2020
Rural Photography, Campus Art Gallery, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN, 2019
Contrive: Photo Manipulation & Surreal Photography, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, 2019
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2019
MEED3: When Photography Ruled the Street Exhibition, Gallery 19, Chicago, IL, 2019
Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight for the Eyes, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 2019
Summer Show: Small Works - Fall Kill Creative Works – Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2019
Opposites, The Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2019
Camera USA 2019: National Photography Exhibition and Award, Naples Art Association, Naples, FL, 2019
Photography Series and Repetition, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
International Art of Photography 2019 Juried Competition, R. G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village, KS, 2019
Small Works Exhibition, [Honorable Mention Award], The Robert Anderson Gallery, Denver, CO, 2019
Wanderlust, Online Gallery, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, 2019
Best of 2018 Show, The Photography Center of the Capital District, Troy, NY, 2019
Small Works Holiday Show, Crenson Gallery, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018
33rd No Big Heads Self-Portrait Exhibition, [Honorable Mention Award], Hugh McPeck Gallery, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, 2018 Amuse Yeux: A Small Delight for the Eyes, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 2018
THREE, Ottmar Gallery, The Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2018
Fun House: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic and Bizarre, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018
Black & White, Online Gallery, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, 2018
The Eighth Annual Fine Art of Photography Exhibition, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA, 2018
Allen, J. (2018). Photowork 2018: 31st Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition Artists Talks, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 25th 2018.
Published Works
Allen, J. (2023). Lamps, Will You Be My Friend?, Butcher Lady, and Waiting - One color film photograph and three B&W gelatin silver photographs in HARDY HAR-HAR - FUNNY BONE, INTERSECT ARTS CENTER Exhibition Catalog, 09.05 -11.05.23, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.
Allen, J. (2020). Inner Space 13/14, Inner Space 15, and Inner Space 15/16 – Three B&W gelatin silver photographs in Texas National 2020: Juried Competition & Exhibition Catalog, May 5 – June 13, 2020, pp. 19-20, Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.
Allen, J. (2018). News and Black Lives Matter – Two B&W gelatin silver photographs in The Literate Image: The Eighth Annual Fine Art of Photography Exhibition Issue, Issue 3 (May 2018), p. 22, Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA: Powder Horn Press.
Allen, J. (2017). Shadow #13 – B&W gelatin silver photograph in Shear, J. & Nelson, T. (Eds.), Catalogue of 2017 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History & Art, p. 2, Albany, Albany, NY: New York Press and Graphics.
Allen, J. (2010). Lampsand Red Heads – Two color film photographs in C. Skiff (Ed.), Fulton Street Gallery, 32nd Photo Regional, pp. 56-57, Albany, NY: McGreevy ProLab & ProPress
Allen, J. (2010). Untitled - B&W film photograph in T. Santelli (Ed.), Light Writing: A Limited Edition Folio, p. 1, Albany, NY: Center for Art and Design
Allen, J. (2005). Untitled - B&W film photograph in D. O’Toole (Ed.), Ephemera, 1(1), p. 46. CafePress.com
Education
Classes taken in Art Department at The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, Fall 2004 – Fall 2014 Art 232 - Photography I: Black & White Photography Art 233 – Photography II: Color Photography Art 333 – Intermediate Photography: Alternative & Digital Processes Art 432 – Advanced Photography I Art 439 – Advanced Photography II AED 570 – Graduate Photography I AED 571 – Graduate Photography II AED 572 – Graduate Photography III AED 573 – Graduate Photography IV AED 574 – Graduate Photography V (multiple times)
Photography Workshops and Seminars
Collodion, Cameras & Contraptions. Photography workshop with Tom DeLooza, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, 2016
Photography seminars with Dan McCormack at Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (2017-2020)
Academic Degrees: Ph.D. (1982), Educational Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara M.Ed. (1975), Educational Foundations, University of Cincinnati B.A. (1973), Mathematics, University of Cincinnati B.S. (1973), Secondary Education, University of Cincinnati