Bio
Grants and Awards
| 2012 | Keck Faculty Fellowship, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA |
| 2007 | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY |
| Art Matters Project Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY | |
| San Diego Art Prize Emerging Artist Award, San Diego, CA | |
| 2006 | 2006 Grantee, Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Houston Grant Recipient, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY |
| Project Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, Houston, TX | |
| 2002 & 2003 | Eliza Randall Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| 2002 | Sculpture Grant, Connemara Conservancy Foundation, Dallas, TX |
Residencies and Fellowships
| 2014 | Lucas Artists Residency Program, Villa Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA |
| 2006 | Triangle Artists Workshop, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2005 | Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
| McColl Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte NC | |
| 2004 | Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY |
| Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY | |
| 2003 | MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
| 2001 – 2003 | Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX |
Selected Individual / Two-Person Exhibitions and Projects
| 2013 | Road Movie, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA |
| 2011 | Clearing, USD, San Diego, CA |
| 2009 | Angle of Repose, Optical Project, Houston, TX |
| Vista, Luis de Jesus / Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA | |
| That’s All it Took (w/ Marisol Rendon), Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA | |
| 2008 – present | Still, B-Home Park, Catskills, NY, curated by Matt Bua |
| 2007 | Stop. Yield. Merge (w/ Marcos ERRE Ramirez), L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 2006 | Vamp/Vampiro, Edwards Garden Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
| Still, Secret Gallery at Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2005 | Oh, Lonesome Me, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC |
| 2004 | Utica Speed Seduction, Sculpture Space and public locations throughout Utica, Utica, NY |
| Come to Find Out, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX | |
| 2003 | Hay Burner, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | Object, Object, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA, curated by Jessica McCambly and John Oliver Lewis |
| Public Art Matters, Woodbury University, San Diego, CA, organized by Chris Puzio and Leslee Schaffer | |
| We are the New Year, Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY, curated by Cara Benedetto | |
| 2012 | Skowhegan Performs, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, curated by Becky Kinder |
| Two Kinds of Funny, Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (and traveling 9/5 – 26/13: University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL; 10/14 – 11/15/2013: Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV; 1/9 – 31/14: Atrium Gallery, School of Art, Ball State University, Location) curated by Matt Lynch | |
| 2009 – 2013 | Animal Art, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA, curated by Rachel Teagle |
| 2011 | Quiet Works (a site specific installation), Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Robert Blackson |
| This Old House, Alpine, CA, curated by Glenna Jennings | |
| 2010 | California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, curated by Sarah Bancroft |
| The Ballad of the Non-Specific Object, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX, curated by Anjali Gupta | |
| Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA curated by Lucia Sanroman | |
| Alptraum!, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC (and traveling in 2011: Cell Project Space, London; Ausstellungsraum des Deutscher Kuenstlerbund e.V., Berlin; The Company, Los Angeles; Blank Projects, Cape Town) curated by Jay Stuckey and Marcus Sendlinger | |
| Material & deStructure, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Zoya Tommy | |
| Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse, Portland State University, Portland, OR organized by Jennifer Delos Rios | |
| 2009 | Social Climbing Part 1: On the Move, Luis De Jesus / Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA |
| POST-Card, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA, curated by Brian Dick | |
| Faculty Exhibition, Kroc Institute Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA | |
| 2008 | Lifting, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU, Fort Worth, TX, curated by Gavin Morrison/Fraser Stables |
| Inside the Wave, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz | |
| BioTechnique, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Philip Ross | |
| 2007 | Lifting, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, curated by Gavin Morrison/ Fraser Stables |
| New Contemporaries, Simay Space, Art Academy of San Diego, curated by Doug Simay | |
| Bivouac, The Fields at Art Omi, Ghent, NY, curated by Max Goldfarb | |
| Maker Faire (w/ Machine Project), San Mateo, CA | |
| Armory Show (w/ Socrates Sculpture Park), New York, NY | |
| Art LA (w/ Machine Project), Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | Take Me To Bed or Lose Me Forever, Volitant Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Leona Skull-Hons |
| Phantom Captain, Apex Art, New York, NY, curated by Andrea Grover | |
| Street Signs & Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Robby Herbst | |
| Light/Sound/Action: Art and Technology, Edith Barrett Gallery, Utica College, Utica, NY | |
| Please Love Me: Architectural Style and the Love Letter, Walker’s Point Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, curated by Santiago Cucullu | |
| Word, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Brandon Krall | |
| 2005 | Artadia @ DiverseWorks: 2004 Houston Grantee Exhibition, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX |
| Sport, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, curated by Alyson Baker | |
| I-10: A Post-Modern Road Trip, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Scott Peveto | |
| Long Division, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, curated by Eleanor Williams | |
| Winter Artists in Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC | |
| Farm to Market, Hudson Show Room, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX, curated by Kate Green | |
| 2004 | The Salon Show, Axis Salon, Houston, TX, curated by Rachel Cook/Danny Yahav-Brown |
| Texas Prime, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, curated by Diane Barber | |
| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Sculpture at Evergreen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, curated by Jennifer McGregor | |
| 2003 | Siting Sculpture, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX, curated by Joan Davidow |
| Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Eric Davis | |
| 2003 Core Exhibition, Blanton Gallery, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Plugged and Haunted, Mackey Apartments, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Zlatan Vukosavljevic | |
| 2002 | Core Samples, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, curated by Clint Willour |
| 2002 Spring Sculpture Exhibition, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX, curated by Amy Monier | |
| 2002 Core Exhibition, Blanton Gallery, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Round 1, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Eric Davis |
Selected Bibliography
| 2010 | CB10 (catalogue), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| Lifting (catalogue), Atopia Projects/Peacock Visual Arts/Fort Worth Contemporary Art, Northampton/Aberdeen/Fort Worth | |
| 2004 ArtPace Residencies and Exhibitions, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX | |
| 2008 | 2007 Tiffany Awards (catalogue) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY |
| Core Artists and Critics in Residence, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Ivana Mestrovic & Alyson Baker (editors) Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY | |
| Betti-Sue Hertz, Inside the Wave (exhibition brochure) San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA | |
| 2007 | Lucia Sanromán, Art Notes, San Diego Visual Arts Network, www.sdvisualarts.net |
| 2006 Triangle International Artists’ Workshop (catalogue) Triangle Art Association, New York, NY | |
| BioTechnique (catalogue) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, “Oh! Didn’t He Ramble,” Creative Capital Channel (website), New York, NY | |
| Mark Allen and Jason Brown, Machine Project Almanac, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | Andrea Grover, Phantom Captain, (exhibition brochure) apexart, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Amada Cruz, “Deep in the Heart of…” Artadia Houston 2004, (catalogue) Artadia, Inc., New York, NY |
| I-10: A Post-Modern Road Trip, (catalogue) McClain Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| Eleanor Williams, Long Division, (exhibition brochure) Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX | |
| 2004 | Kate Green, Farm to Market, (exhibition brochure) ArtPace, San Antonio, TX |
| Jennifer McGregor, Sculpture at Evergreen, (catalogue) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | |
| 2003 | Steve Ausbury, “Unheimlich Maneuvers,” 2003 Core Exhibition, (catalogue) MFA, Houston, TX |
| 2002 | Lane Relyea, interview, 2002 Core Yearbook, (catalogue) MFA, Houston, TX |
Selected Press
| 2011 | Angella d’Avignon, Kinsee Morlan, “Glenna Jennings Turns Her Home into an Exhibition Space: San Diego Artist and Curator Explores her Private Life in Public”, San Diego CityBeat, 8/10/11 |
| Lily Simonson, “Looking at Los Angeles – The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations and Collaborations, blog.art21.org, 1/27/11 | |
| 2010 | Catherine Wagley, “The California Biennial: So What Are We Going to Do?,” Daily Serving: An International Forum for the Contemporary Arts, http://dailyserving.com, 11/5/10 |
| Jim Chute, “Allison Wiese’s Art Inconspicuously Makes You Think,” San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, 10/23/10 | |
| Robert Pincus, “A Boisterous Exhibit Shines Spotlight on SD,” San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, 6/13/10 | |
| 2009 | Robert Pincus, “Child’s Play at Children’s Museum,” San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA 12/6/09 |
| Robert Pincus, “Greatness and Grandeur,” San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, 5/21/09 | |
| 2008 | Jeff Ferrell, “Lifting: Theft in Art,” Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, 421-2 Laura Lark, “Lifting: Theft in Art,” Glasstire, http://www.glasstire.com, 4/8/08 |
| AnnaMaria Stephens, “Messages to the Masses,” San Diego City Beat, San Diego, CA, 4/8/08 | |
| Robert Pincus, “Social Engineering,” San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, 3/23/08 | |
| 2007 | Mike Hotter, “Field of Dreams,” Chronogram Magazine, Hudson Valley, NY, 8/07 |
| Katrin Merkel, “SD Art Prize Gets Simayspace,” San Diego Downtown News, Vol. 8, No. 7, p. B9, 7/07 Eve Meltzer, “Phantom Captain,” Frieze Magazine, Issue 104, 1/07 | |
| Tria Wood, “Crowdsourcing: Revealing Hidden Artists,” ArtsHouston, Houston, TX, 1/07 | |
| 2006 | Jeff Ward, “WORD,” ARTLIES, Houston, TX, p.100, 11/06 |
| John Ewing, “Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing,” ARTLIES, Issue 52, Houston, TX, 11/06 | |
| Doug Harvey, “Streetsignism,” LA Weekly, Los Angeles, CA, 11/15/06 | |
| Lauren Cornell, “Phantom Captain,” Time Out New York, Issue 580, p.63, New York, NY, 11/9/06 | |
| Nicole Davis, “Give it a Name: ApexArt Tries to Pinpoint an Art Movement,” Downtown Express, Volume 19, Issue 22, New York, NY, 10/13/06 | |
| Dorota Biczel Nelson, “Please Love Me,” www.susceptibletoimages.com, Milwaukee, WI, 9/06 | |
| Whitney Taylor, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?,” MKE, Milwaukee, WI, 9/21/06 | |
| Teresa Cutri Heflin, “Allison Wiese: Vamp,” ARTLIES, Houston, TX, 9/06 | |
| “Corn whiskey still demonstration on Saturday in LA” www.boingboing.net/2006/02/08, 2/8/06 | |
| 2005 | Peter Frank, “Road Show,” Houston Magazine, P.68, Houston, TX, 5/05 |
| Dawn Stienecker, “Long Division,” ArtsHouston, p. 31, Houston, TX, 3/05 | |
| “Jentel Goes to the Drive-In,” Alliance of Artists Communities, Vol.11, No.1, p.19, Providence, RI, 2/05 | |
| Scott Faingold, “Art by Numbers,” Houston Press, Houston, TX, 2/3/05 | |
| 2004 | J. Bowers, “Top Ten: The Year in Art,” Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore, MD, 12/15/04 |
| Joshua Elzy, “Farm to Market at ArtPace,” VOA Magazine, Vol.13, No.2, p.10, 11/04 | |
| Mike Giuliano, “What a Site!,” The Towson Times, p.48, Baltimore, MD, 5/19/04 | |
| J. Bowers, “Don’t Fence Them In,” Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore, MD, 5/12/04 | |
| Glenn McNatt, “Biennial Reflects the Elegance of a Bygone Era,” Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD, 5/6/04 | |
| Reggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “Siting Sculpture,” ARTLIES, Issue 41, p.78, Houston, TX, 3/04 | |
| 2002 | Mike Daniel, “Connemara Spring Sculpture Show,” The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, 4/19/02 |
| Bill Davenport, “Tire Iron #46: Core 2002 Exhibition,” Glasstire, http://www.glasstire.com, 4/4/02 |
Broadcast
| 2008 | Rod Luck, interview on “KUSI Morning News,” KUSI Channel 9, San Diego, CA, 3/17/08 |
| 2006 | Bonnie North, interview on “Lake Effect,” WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee Public Radio, Milwaukee, WI, 12/1/06 |
| 2005 | Allison Young, interview on “Front Row,” KUHF 88.7 Houston Public Radio, Houston, TX, 7/12/05 |
| 2004 | Interview WKTV Channel 2 News, Utica, NY, 9/27/04 |
| Michael Lee, interview “Come To Find Out,” on “Arts Eclectic,” KUT 90.5, Austin, TX, 6/28 – 7/2/04 |
Selected Publications
| 2010 | “The Abduction of Europa,” ARTLIES, Spring 2010 Issue, Houston, TX |
| 2006 | Atopia Journal 4.99 MANIFESTO: Osaka Posters, Atopia Projects, 8/06 |
| 2004 | Atopia Journal 3.66 Stone Pockets for We Barbarians, Atopia Projects, 7/04 |
Selected Curation
| 2004 | We’ll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX |
Selected Lectures and Presentations
| 2012 | Old School / Conceptual Methods, International Sculpture Conference, Chicago, IL, organized by Joshua Reiman, 10/4/12 |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA, 2/14/11 |
| 2010 | Artist Lecture, Museum Educators, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, 11/29/10 |
| Between Here and There: Curatorial Strategies Towards a Regional Survey, Art San Diego, 9/3/10 | |
| Transformation: Installation Symposium, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA 4/8/10 | |
| 2009 | The Bell Tree and Me, Critter / Studio for Urban Projects, San Francisco, CA 4/11/09 |
| 2008 | Inside the Wave Panel Discussion, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 4/1/08 |
| 2007 | Technebiotics, California College of the Arts (CCA) Graduate Campus, San Francisco, CA, 11/02/07 |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2/27/07 | |
| 2006 | Moonshine Made Easy, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2/11/06 |
| 2005 | What Goes Up Must Come Down (with Art Domantay), Point 8 Forum, Charlotte, NC, 3/21/05 |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 3/17/05 | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Winthrop University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Rock Hill, SC, 3/3/05 | |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Golden Artists Colors, New Berlin, NY, 8/25/04 |
| Come to Find Out, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX, 7/14/04 | |
| Visiting Artist Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI, 3/15/04 | |
| 2002 | Slide Jam, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 2/27/02 |
| Core Fellow Panel Discussion, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 4/18/02 | |
| 2000 | My Pop Life: Conversation with the Common, California State at San Marcos, San Marcos, CA, 10/00 |
Related Professional Experience
| 9/07 – present | Associate / Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Department of Art, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA |
| 3 – 6/07 | Lecturer, Sculpture & Public Art, Department of Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego |
| 9 – 12/05 | Lecturer, Sculpture, Department of Visual Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI |
| 2/02 – 7/04 | First First-Mate & Managing Director, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX |
| 8/99 – 8/01 | Public Art Program Associate, San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego, CA |
Education
| 2000 | MFA, Department of Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
| 1999 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 1992 | BA with Honors in Visual Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI |