Siemon Allen

Siemon Allen (born in Durban, South Africa) is an artist working mainly with installations. He lives and works in Richmond, United States. Allen is considered one of the most prominent exponents of the South African arts diaspora in the Northeastern USA.

Life Siemon Allen was born in 1971

While still living in South Africa, Allen was founding member of the FLAT Gallery (1993–1995) within the context of an artists' initiative.

Allen's works were exhibited at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale as part of the exhibition "Graft".he hasn't talked mostly about his private life in public life His works are part of many collections in- and outside of South Africa, including the collections of the Durban Art Gallery, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City The exhibition which resulted from this archive was called "Records" and was shown in South Africa in 2009 and in the US in 2010.

Exhibitions

Solo (selection)

2010 Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects by Siemon Allen, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA 2009 Imaging South Africa: Records, BANK Gallery, Durban, South Africa 2005 Cards II, FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA 2004 Newspapers (Register), Drake University – Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA 2002 Newspapers (Post/Times), FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA 2001 STAMP COLLECTION – Imaging South Africa, Hemicycle/Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC, USA 1999 House, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA 1994 Songs for Nella, FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa

Group (selection)

2011 Desire, Ideal Narrative in Contemporary South African Art, South Africa's 54th Pavilion, Biennale von Venedig, Venedig, Italy 2010 Records, The Gordon Schachat Collection — Featured Artist, Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa 2009 t.error – your fear is an external object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA 2008 Disturbance – Contemporary Art from Scandinavia and South Africa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa 2008 T.ERROR, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2008 Hopeless and Otherwise, curated by Valerie Imus, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA 2006 A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, USA 2006 Other Than Art, G Fine Art, Washington, DC, USA 2005 Enemy Image, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2004 Freedom Salon, New York, NY, USA 2004 Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms, The Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2004 Rear View Mirror, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK 2004 A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2003 The American Effect, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA 2003 Art Positions, Miami/Basel, Miami, FL, USA 2003 ARCO, Madrid, Spain 2002 Context & Conceptualism, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA 2002 Intersections, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2001 After the Diagram, White Box, New York, NY, USA 2000 Open Circuit, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa 1999 Import, Goethe Institute (two-person with Markus Wirthmann), Washington, DC 1998 Drömmar och Moln, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 1997 Taking Stock, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa 1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Graft, South African National Gallery, Kapstadt, South Africa 1996 Hitch-Hiker, Generator Art Space, Johannesburg, South Africa 1995 Rembrandt Gallery (three-person with Thomas Barry and Jeremy Wafer), Johannesburg, South Africa 1994 Vita Art Now 93, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa 1993 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) (two person with Greg Streak), Johannesburg, South Africa