Bio and Contact Info

I am currently based in NYC at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts art studios in midtown Manhattan. Born and raised in New Jersey, I have lived in New York, Texas, Paris, and Lausanne, Switzerland. I attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York (MFA 1997, Electronic Art) after graduating from the Ecole Cantonal d’Art de Lausanne, Switzerland (Diplôme, 1990, Drawing/Photography). I have won four Individual Artist Grants and a large-scale commission from the Houston Arts Alliance since 2006. I had solo exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh), Women & Their Work (Austin), DiverseWorks (Houston), and 511 Gallery, (NYC). Collections holding my work include the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Art Museum of the University of Albany, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston among others. Over my twenty-year career as an artist, I have participated in residencies such as the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, and the Hermit Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic, among others. My recent participation in art residencies include the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont (July, 2018), The Ayatana Research Residency, Ontario, Canada (September, 2018), the Sculpture and New Media Residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York (June/July, 2017), La Porte Peinte Centre Pour les Arts, Noyers, France (December, 2017) and at the NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (April – June 2019). From 2012-2020, I was Humanities Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University where I taught courses on digital photography, experimental video, and video installation. My work has been featured in books such as “Exploring Color Photography” and “Light and Lens” by Robert Hirsch and and “Artist Animal” by Steve Baker and journals “Lapham’s Quarterly” and “Gulf Coast” among others.

CONTACT

I am based in New York City. Cell: 713-906-4384 Email: allison@allisonhunter.com