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Terry  Allen (USA)

 

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1943 American. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Raised in Lubbock, Texas.
Education
1966 BFA, Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Teaching
1978-79 Professor, California State University, Fresno, CA. Resigned position.
1974-77 Associate Professor, California State University, Fresno, CA
1971-72 Guest lecturer, California State University, Fresno, CA
1971 Guest artist at University of California, Berkeley
1968-69 Drawing classes at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, and Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1966-67 Third grade, 93rd Street School, Watts, CA (U.S. Poverty Program)
Awards
1997 Buddy Holly Walk of Fame Inductee, Lubbock, TX
1996 Dance Club Award, Best Club Interior, RED JACKET, Dallas, TX
1992 Wexner Center for the Arts, Artist Residency Fellowship, Columbus, OH
1989 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco, CA
1986 Guggenheim Fellowship
Bessie Award, New York, NY
Isadora Duncan Award, San Francisco, CA
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1970 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Selected solo exhibitions
2001 PrintsDrawingsWritings, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
Study Drawings by Terry Allen, Gallery 68, Austin, TX
2000 Terry Allen: Belief (Study Works), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Studies for "Countee Music," Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Works on Paper, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College Art Center, Providence, RI
1999 Terry Allen: IAH Airport Working Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Voices in the Wilderness, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA
1998 Publik Werks, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1997 Terry Allen: Prints 1974-1997, Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Terry Allen: Prints, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996 Liquid Assets, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1995 Bronzes & Drawings, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
1994 Poison Amor (Collaboration with James Drake), Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Voices in the Wilderness, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Bronzes, Schneider Art Museum, Ashland, Oregon
1993 Voices in the Wilderness, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1992 Youth in Asia, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N. C.; traveling to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
A Simple Story (Juarez), Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1991 Terry Allen: New Work, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
The Artist's Eye: Terry Allen, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1989 Big Witness (living in wishes), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Them Ol' Love Songs, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Installation and Concert, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1988 Big Witness (living in wishes), L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA; Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, CA; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA;
Madison Arts Center, Madison, WI; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ;
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
John Weber, New York, NY
Terry Allen: Youth in Asia, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 Revelations, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
OHIO, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY;
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
China Night, Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
1985 Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
China Night, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA
Visual and Aural Mythologies, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1984 Sprawl/Prowl/Growl, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain (ELAC), Lyon, France
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Rooms and Stories, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1982 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1981 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Ring, Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1980 Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1979 Lubbock Lights Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1978 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1975 Juarez Series, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1974 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1971 Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1970 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1966 Gallery 66, Los Angeles, CA
Selected group exhibitions
2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001 Chouinard: A Living Legacy (Chouinard Alumni Exhibition), Oceanside, Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Art and Wine: Benzinger imagery series, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, VA
200 Years of Folly: Legacy of Goya's Caprichos, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI (exhibition will travel)
1999 New To Houston: Recent Additions to Houston Collections, The Museum of Arts, Houston, TX
1998 Prints from the Collection of David Durham on loan from the Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, Texas, Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Art - Griffith Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
1997 Household Goods, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Art Foundry Editions, Santa Fe at Knoedler, New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Downtown, Austin, TX
1996 The Bird Show, West End Gallery, Houston, TX
Convergence, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX
American Kaleidoscope, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1995 Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum, New York
Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (exhibition will travel)
The Art Show, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
It's Only Rock n' Roll, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (exhibition to travel)
The Prints of Cirrus Edition, L. A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Mapping, UTSA Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX (will travel)
Insite 94, Bi-National Exhibition, San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico
1993 La Frontera-The Border, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; tour: Centrok Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1992 Printmaking in Texas: The 1980's, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
Profiles II: On Paper, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX, traveling to Weber State University, Ogden, UT; and Arlington Museum, Arlington, TX
Centenary Print Exhibition, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
1991 Positions in the Desert, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
The Political Arm, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY and Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Text Context, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Poets' Walk, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings by Sculptors, Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Singular Visions, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Responsive Witness, The Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
On the Road Selections from the Permanent Collections of the San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, traveling to Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Drawings: An Exhibition of Artists of the John Weber Gallery, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1990 CCA12, The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Second Annual Invitational, Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Assemblage: Dada and the Surrealist Legacy, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Politics in Print, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL, and New York, NY
Northwest x Southwest—Painted Fiction, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA; Yellowstone Art Center, MT; Bellingham Museum, WA; University of Houston, TX
1989 Heroics Recast, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
10 + 5 From California, Thomas Center, Gainsville, FL
A Different War, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Belingham, WA, traveling to De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincol, MA; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Akron Art Museum, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
Humor in Prints, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1988 Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Pence Gallery, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Time, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
1987 Documents 8, Kassel, West Germany
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
War & Memory, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D. C.
1986 The Allen/Ely Project, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Lead, Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY
The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Honky Tonk Visions (On West Texas Music: 1936-86), Texas Tech University, Lubbock and others
Text and Image, Holly Soloman Gallery, New York, NY
Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Sculptors' Drawings, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA, and Prichard Art Gallery, Moscow, ID
1985 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 Content & Contemporary Focus 1974-84, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
American & European, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Face to Face/Back to Back, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Strike Restrike: The Revitalized Print, Western Michigan University, MI
Contemporary Works on Paper, University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
California Drawings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
50 Artists/50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
35 Artists, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Rockefeller Retrospective, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Vietnam: The War and its Aftermath, Chapman College, Guggenheim Gallery, Organized by Richard Turner, Orange, CA
Stars, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Site Strategies, The Oakland Museum, CA
Language Drama Source & Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY
Perspectives of Landscape, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Winterworks, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Allen, Henderson, Wegman, Wiley, Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Anderson Ranch Faculty Exhibit '83, Cohen Gallery, Denver, CO
California Current Part II, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
American European Painting and Sculpture Part I, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA
Opening Exhibition/New Space, Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Public Comments, Center on Contemporary Arts, (COCA) Seattle, WA
1982 Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Awards in Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D. C., traveling to: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; and Denver Art Museum Denver, CO
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Exchange Between Artists, 1931-82, Poland-USA, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
New American Graphics 2, Madison Art Center, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; traveled extensively throughout USA
Artist Photographs, Vision #5, Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, CA
Forgotten Dimension, A Survey of Small Sculpture in California Now, Fresno
Arts Center, Fresno, CA (exhibition traveled throughout United States for two years) In Our Time, 1948-1982 Survey Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
The Destroyed Print, Pratt Manhattan Center, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1981 Works from Landfall Press, Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, CA
Beauty and the Board Room, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art
Words as Images, sponsored by the Renaissance Society at University of Chicago and White Walls magazine, Bergman Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Letters from Artists, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Humor in Art, organized by Michael Kurchfeld, Las Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Southern Voice (Terry Allen, Vernon Fisher, Ed McGowin), Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Group Exhibition, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
Soundings, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Post Modernist Metaphors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Not Just For Laughs, The New Museum, New York, NY
1980 Terry Allen & Charles Gaines, Phoebe Conally Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA
Cartography, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1979 7 x 9 Exhibition, organized by Ellen Lanyon, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Image and Object in Contemporary Sculpture, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (exhibitition traveled to P. S. 1, New York, NY)
Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhitition/Prints, Droll-Kolbert Gallery, New York, NY
Narrative, David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1977 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
10th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
New Acquisitions Exhibition (Prints), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Narrative: Story of Art 1967-77, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (traveled to the University of California Art Museum, Berkeley; Santa Barbara Art Museum, CA)
The Record As Artwork, Fort Worth Art Museum, TX (traveled throughout U.S. and Canada)
Prints, Books, Photographs, Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, OH
The Modern Era: Bay Area Update, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, (Organized by Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA)
Summer Exhibition, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 San Francisco Art Institute Annual, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Watercolors & Related Media by Contemporary Californians, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Texas Artists, American Cultural Center, Paris, France
Personal Information, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Landfall Press, A Survey of Prints (1970-77), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
California Artists, organized by Henry Hopkins, The Hague, Holland
Americans in the Biennale, Hudson River Museum, New York, NY
1976 The Great American Rodeo Show, Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, (exhibition traveled to various cities throughout United States in conjunction with their rodeos)
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (exhibition traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.)
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (including 20th National Print Exhibition)
1975 Eight from California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
The Small Scale in Contemporary Art, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Visual/Verbal, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1974 Word Works, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut Creek, CA
Drawings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (organized and expanded with separate catalogue by Nancy Hoffman; also traveled to Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL)
Lithographs from Landfall Press, Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, I
Selections from Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Opening Exhibition, Gallerie Doyle, Paris, France
December Drawing Show, Claire S. Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
1973 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawings, Cusack Gallery, Houston, TX
Texas Drawings, Smither Gallery, Dallas, TX
1972 Surrealism is Alive & Well in the West, California Institute of Technology (Baxter Art Gallery), Pasadena, CA
The State of California Painting, organized by Michael Walls, sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth Arts Council to tour New Zealand and Australia
14 Los Angeles Painters, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla CA
National Invitational Drawing Exhibit, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (Purchase Prize)
Boxed Top Art Show, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Made in California, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
The 73rd Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1970 1970 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
A Decade of Accomplishment: American Drawings and Prints of the 1960's, Illinois Bell, Chicago, IL
The Sixties, Where It Was, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawing 88, Winn Galleries, Austin, TX
Still Life Today, American Federation of Arts (exhibition circulated throughout United States, beginning September 1970)
Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
South Texas Street Funk, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX
1969 The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (exhibition was circulated by American Federation of Arts throughout the United State, February 1970-May 1971)
1968 1968 Drawing Invitational, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
All-City Show, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (Purchase Prize)
1967 Small Images, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
1966 3-Man Show Gallery 66, Los Angeles, CA
Theater and Music performance recordings
2001 Concert for Cliff & Joanna, Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, H. C. Westerman Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1998 The Baby Dance, Music Soundtrack for movie directed by Jane Anderson, Showtime Network "Austin City Limits," PBS Television
1994 Chippy, (Written by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen), (with Jo Harvey Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jo Carol Pierce, Barry Tubb, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock), American Music Theater Festival (AMTF), Play and Players Theatre, Philadelphia, PA and Lincoln Center Productions' "Serious Fun!" Festival, New York, NY
1993 Amarillo Highway (and other roads), (with Butch Hancock, Michael Ventura, Jesse Taylor, Charlene Hancock), Lubbock or Leave It, Austin, TX; Jazz Club, Santa Cruz, CA; St. Anne's Cathedral, Brooklyn, NY; Paramount Theater, Austin, TX
Chippy (Diaries of a West Texas Hooker), Cross Currents work-in-progress, American Music Theater Festival, Play and Players Theater, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Pioneer, (Collaboration with Paul Dresher Company), (Written by Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Rende Eckert), (Directed by Robert Woodruff), UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Zellerbach Hall, UC-Berkeley and Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA, and Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
1990 Juarez: A Work in Progress (with Jo Harvey Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band), Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
Pioneer (Paul Dresher Ensemble), (with Jo Harvey Allen, Rende Eckert and John Duykers), (Directed by Robert Woodruff), Spoleto Festival, Garden Theatre, Charleston, SC
1989 In Concert: Terry Allen, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloonfield Hills, MI
The Event: Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Terry Allen: Concert, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1988 Rollback (Collaboration with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and Bruce Nauman) Kimo Theater, City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Out of Time (Collaboration with Mike Henderson and William T. Wiley), Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
1987 Leon & Lena (and Lenz) (Directed by Joanne Akalaitis), Music by Terry Allen), Guthrie Theater, Walker Art Center, Minneapolic, MN
War & Memory (Concert & Music Panel Discussion), (with Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock), Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1985 Do You Know What Your Children Are Tonight? (with Bukka, Bale & Jo Harvey Allen), Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
Pedal Steal (Collaboration with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company), (Sets and Music by Terry Allen), Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1984 Face to Face/Back to Back, performance with Jo Harvey Allen, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Lorna, a video by Lynn Hershman, produced by Electronic Arts Archives, Texas Tech University, Music by Terry Allen
The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain (ELAC), Lyon, France (video screening reading)
1983 Anterabbit/Bleeder (a biography), theater piece in conjunction with "Rooms and Stories: Recent work by Terry Allen," Sherwood Auditorium,La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Hally Lou, music for play by Jo Harvey Allen, performed at The Aspen Art Center, Aspen, CO; The New Japanese-American Theatre (in conjunction with "Explorations"), co- sponsored by California Institute of the Arts and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Songs: "Oh Hally Lou", "Bloodlines" and part of "Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy")
1982 Counter Angel, music for play by Jo Harvey Allen, performed at Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, CA; The New Museum, New York, NY; Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX…and under title "Tables and Angels" at The Chicken Burger Café, Anchorage, AK and Chat N' Chew Café in San Francisco, CA (Song: "The Beautiful Waitress") POP-UP Productions
Bissie at the Baths, music for play by Joan Hotchkis, performed at The New Museum, New York, NY. (Song: "Oh What a Dangerous Life") POP-UP Productions
The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, Video presentation, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1981 The Embrace, video installation and environment, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Performance Symposium, performed with John Hadley, Tim Ryan and Dick Dunlap in Dunlap's "Rubber Band" piece. Wrote and performed with John Hadley "Evil Lava" song for Joe Ferrell Hobbs "Disaster Piece." Also played "Lubbock Tornado" in piece with John Hadley and performed solo. Fly-by-Night Club (Mr. White Keys) in Spenard, Alaska, sponsored by Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, performed at Drexel Hall, October 16 and 17 in Conjunction with RING exhigition at Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Embrace, video installation environment (Part II, RING), Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1980 The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, video screening, University Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Embrace, video installation environment, Phoebe Connaly Gallery, Fresno State University, CA
The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, video screening "San Francisco Video Review," Video Free America, San Francisco, CA
The Embrace, video installation and environment, Boise Gallery of Art, ID
The Embrace, video installation environment, "Terry Allen (part of and some in betweens)" exhibition, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1979 Money and Love, Three dances choreographed by Joanne Kelly to Terry Allen songs My Amigo, Blue Asian Reds, and Lubbock Women, Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, CA
The Embrace, video installation environment, Image & Object exhibition at Detroit Museum of Arts, Detroit, MI. (Piece shown in another form at P.S.I. in Conjunction with same exhibition, New York, NY
1978 The Embrace…Advanced to Fury, (with Jo Harvey Allen), a theatre occurrences performed at Spinoza Arena/Theatre, Houston, TX, in conjunction with American Narrative - Story Art 1967-77 exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX. (The Embrace… is the second section of a four section piece titled - RING)* The Embrace…Advanced to Fury (see above), performed at University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1974 American Sadness, mixed-media presentation on men and women, 101 Theatre, Fresno, CA. (Also performed at School of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA)
Cocaine Cowboy, title music, costume design and voice characterization for a play by George Lewis, 101 Theatre, Fresno, CA
1972 L.A. Backwards is Al, mixed-media biographic presentation on the work of Allen Ruppersberg, 101 Theatre, Fresno, CA
1970 The Levels (performance for Robert Irwin), one performance only, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1968 Dialogues in Drag…A Satire, one act play performed one night only, Lucille Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
The Twentieth Century Pronto, Arrived, one act play performed one night only, Lucille Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Recording (Discography)
2001 From Hell to Breakfast, A taste of Sugar Hill's Texas
Singer-Songwriters, Compilation of various artists, Sugar Hill Records
Concert for a Landmine Free World, Various Artists Compilation CD, Vanguard Records
1999 Salivation, CD, Sugar Hill Records
1998 Viva Americana, compilation CD, Viva Americana, London, England
"Ourland," Terry Allen Live at the Empire Music Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1997 Smokin' the Dummy/Bloodlines, CD re-issue, Sugar Hill Records
1996 Human Remains, CD, Sugar Hill Records
1995 Lubbock (on everything), CD re-issue, Sugar Hill Records
1994 Songs From Chippy, produced by Terry Allen and Joe Ely, various artists (Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Wayne Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Jo Carol Pierce), Hollywood Records
1993 I Blame God, sung by Terry Allen, produced by Terry Allen and Lloyd Maines, for Across the Great Divide (songs by Jo Carol Pierce), CD, various artists, Dejadisc, BMI (benefit for Austin Rape Crisis Center, Austin, TX)
Pedal Steal/Rollback, single CD, two soundtracks for dance (executive producer Margaret Jenkins Dance Co., San Francisco, CA)
Pedal Steal…all text, music, and lyrics by Terry Allen (except "Sentimental Journey" by Green, Brown and Homer, ASCAP; "Give Me the Flowers," public domain and MacDonald's commercial) Performed by Terry Allen and The Panhandle Mystery Band, produced by Terry Allen, Lloyd Mains and Don Caldwell, recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, 1986, Green Shoes Publishing Co., BMI
Rollback…all music and lyrics by Terry Allen (except "Home on the Range," public domain), performed by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band, produced by Terry Allen, Lloyd Maines and Richard Bowden, recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, 1988, Green Shoes Pub. Co., BMI
Bleeder, single track on three-track compilation CD, various artists
Radius #1, executive producer New American Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and Jo Harvey Allen, music by Terry Allen and The Panhandle Mystery Band, recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, 1990, Green Shoes Publishing Co., BMI, What Next Recordings
1992 The Silent Majority Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits, CD, compilation of out-takes, mis- takes, work tapes, added tos, taken froms, omissions and foreign materials—all music and lyrics by Terry Allen (except "Home on the Range," public domain, and "Cocktail Desperado," music by David Byrne, lyrics by Terry Allen, Index Music, ASCAP/Green Shoes Publishing Co., BMI) Green Shoes Publishing Company, BMI, Fate Records
Lubbock (on everything), re-issued on CD, Special Delivery/Topic Records, London, UK (all original songs included except "High Horse Momma"), licensed by Fate Records
Juarez, re-issued on CD and cassette, Fate Records
Smokin' the Dummy, re-issued on CD, Fate Records
Bloodlines, re-issued on CD, Fate Records
Amerasia, re-issued on cassette, Fate Records
1988 Home on the Range, public domain, performed and arranged by Terry Allen, with The Panhandle Mystery Band and Joe Ely, single track on Tellus, The Audio Cassette
Magazine #21, Audio by Visual Artists, various artists, Harvestworks, Inc., executive producer Claudia Gould
1987 Amerasia (film soundtrack) 33 1/3 LP album and cassette, Fate Records, Inc., recorded by The Panhandle Mystery Band, Lubbock, TX, and Surachal Jantimorn and Caravan, Bangkok, Thailand; music and lyrics by Terry Allen; Green Shoes Pub. Co., BMI
1986 The Beautiful Waitress, written and performed solo live by Terry Allen, Green Shoes Pub. Co., BMI, single track on 1986 Kerrville Folk Festival, cassette, various artists, executive producer Rod Kennedy, Crowe Memorial Fund-Kerrville Music Foundation
Cocktail Desperado; single co-written with David Byrne; soundtrack The Sounds From True Stories, Warner Bros. Records
1984 Bloodlines, 33 1/3 LP album, Fate Records, Inc., recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, Texas, produced by Lloyd Maines and Terry Allen, executive producers Jack and Ethel Lemon, all music and lyrics by Terry Allen, Green Shoes Pub. Co., BMI
1983 The Arizona Spiritual, single track included in High Performance: The Record, issue #23, Artists doing Songs, produced and performed by Lloyd Maines and Terry Allen, music and lyrics by Terry Allen, Green Shoes Pub. Co., BMI (courtesy Fate Records, Inc.)
1980 Smokin' the Dummy, 33 1/3 LP album/Fate Records, Inc., Green Shoes Publishing, recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, with Panhandle Mystery Band, produced by Lloyd Maines and Terry Allen, executive producers Jack and Ethel Lemon, all music and lyrics by Terry Allen, except "Maybeline" by Chuck Berry; songs on single below are included in this album, BMI
1979 Cajun Roll and Whatever Happened to Jesus (and Maybeline)?, 45 RPM single, Fate Records, Inc., Chicago, IL, Green Shoes Publishing Co., recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, Panhandle Mystery Band, produced by Lloyd Maines and Terry Allen (except "Maybeline" by Chuck Berry, Arc Music), BMI
1978 Lubbock (on everything), 33 1/3 double-record LP album, Fate Records, Inc., Chicago, IL, Green Shoes Publishing Co., recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, TX, produced by Everyone on This Record, executive producers Jack and Ethel Lemon, all music and lyrics by Terry Allen, BMI
1975 Juarez, 33 1/3 LP album, distributed by Landfall Press, Inc. recorded at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, CA, produced by Jamie Howell & Terry Allen, all music and lyrics by Terry Allen BMI (originally included in Juarez Suite with six lithographs, edition of 50…3000 additional records pressed; Juarez re-released in 1980 by Fate Records, Inc., Chicago, IL)
1968 Gonna California & Color Book, 45 RPM single, Bale Creek Records, Bukka Cain Publishing, recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, CA, produced by David Nelson, George Tipton & Terry Allen; music and lyrics by Terry Allen, BMI