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Art and Life: 1960s through 1970s
In the 1970s, Roberta Allen had 11 one-person gallery exhibitions in New York and Europe. Last year she did a show at Minus Space of her 1970s works which was one of Hyperallergic's "Top 10 Brooklyn Shows in 2014." Her conceptual art, all of which combined image and brief texts, including "arrow" installations, photo-based works, artist books, collages and drawings, the later, mainly with her "pointless arrows." All these works were originally inspired by road signs while hitchhiking through Europe in the 1960s with a German sculptor she met while traveling alone. He would later become her husband for several years. On highways, arrows pointing "up" meant straight ahead. To her, they were ambiguous, not intrinsic to the signs themselves so were open to redefinition. In 1967 she had her first gallery exhibition in Amsterdam where she was living with her soon to be husband. Prior to Amsterdam, they lived in Athens and later (West) Berlin briefly. In NY, shows of her sculpture followed while her conceptual work generated. In 1970-71, her readings of Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling in particular, brought to her art the notion of Ascent and Descent and endlessness verses infinity.

Art, Writing Fiction and Life: 1979-81
Her conceptual art changed in 1980 when she did a show at P.S.1, MoMA, that included with text 3-dimensional wall objects, (including a live fish in a bowl) and found photo illustrations glued on balsa wood. A year later, she adapted this show in a Munich gallery, along with an arrow installation at a museum, also in Munich. That same year she did a gallery show in Rome, after which she decided to leave the art world. She'd already begun writing stories in 1979 and was soon published in an anthology. She found great gratification in writing fiction. Though she made art while she was writing, she preferred to stay out of the art world.

Fiction Books, Writing Books and Teaching, 1986 - Present
Roberta Allen has published 8 books and nearly 100 stories in literary journals since 1981, including The Literarian, The Brooklyn Rail, Bomb, The Saint Ann's Review, Epoch, The New Ohio Review, Gargoyle, many of them short shorts, and in anthologies. Some stories have been translated in Farsi and German. Her two short short collections; The Traveling Woman, (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People, (Coffee House Press), were praised in The New York Times Book Review. Her other books are The Daughter, a novella-in-shorts (Autonomedia); Amazon Dream, a memoir (City Lights); The Dreaming Girl, a novel, (Painted Leaf, Ellipsis and Dzanc Books; Fast Fiction, the first guide to writing short stories (Story Press); The Playful Way to Serious Writing and The Playful Way To Knowing Yourself, writing workbooks published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1986, she began teaching fiction at Parson's School of Design, then went on to teach at The Writer's Voice, University of the South, NYU, Columbia University and The New School for 18 years. She began private writing workshops in 1991 which she continues to teach.

Art

 * 1989 Artist-In-Residence Fellowship, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
 * 1985 VCCA Residency Fellowship
 * 1985 LINE (NEA & NYS Council) Grant
 * 1983 Yaddo Residency Fellowship
 * 1978-79 CAPS (Creative Artists Pubric Service) Grant (Sculpture)
 * 1972 Ossabaw Island Project Residency Fellowship
 * 1971,72 MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship

Writing

 * 1998Tennessee Williams Fellow In Creative Writing/Writer In Residence, University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
 * 1986, 1994, 2005, 2010.Virginia Center For The Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Amherst, VA. 1986, 1994, 2005, 2010.
 * 1983, 1987, 1993.Yaddo Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York.
 * 1985 LINE (National Endowment For the Arts & New York State Council) Grant.1985.

One Person Art Exhibitions
Kunstforum, Stadt. Galerie im Lembachhaus, Munich, Germany Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy MTL Galerie, Brussels, Belgium Fine Arts Center, C.W. Post College, Glenvale, LI., NY        John Weber Gallery, NYC Franklin Furnace, NYC P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
 * 2014 Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY Project Room (Online) Dinter Fine Art
 * 2007 Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Art Gallery, Binghamton University, SUNY, Binghamton, NY
 * 1989 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Western Australia
 * 1983 The Fine Arts Galleries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
 * 1982 William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
 * 1981 Galerie Walter Storms, Munich, Germany
 * 1980 P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
 * 1979 John Weber Gallery, NYC
 * 1978 Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC
 * 1977 Galerie Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf, Germany
 * 1975 John Weber Gallery, NYC
 * 1974 John Weber Gallery, NYC
 * 1968 Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn, NY
 * 1967 Galerie 845, Amsterdam, Netherlands​

Art Bibliography
Virginia Center For The Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Amherst, VA, 1986, 1994, 2005, 2010. Yaddo Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1983, 1987, 1993. LINE (National Endowment For the Arts & New York State Council) Grant, 1985.en" (review) Arts Magazine, October 1977, pp 23,24
 * Pool", catalogue of pool exhibitions, C.W. Post College, Glenvale, L.I., NY
 * Skira Annuel, "Art Actuel", 1979, Geneva, Statement by the artist, p 32
 * Brody, Jacqueline, "Roberta Allen" (Prints & Photographs Published), (review) The Print Collector's Newsletter, March-April 1979, p 18
 * O'Grady, Holly, "The Paradoxical Arrow: Roberta Allen's Installations And Books", (article), Arts Magazine, February 1979, pp 156,157
 * "Focus '78", catalogue of exhibition at Centre Cultural du Marais, Paris. Foire- Exposition d'Art Actuel
 * Anderson, Alexandra, "From Photography", Voice Choices, Village Voice, August 28, 1978, P 66
 * Mussa, Italo, "A photo e 10 specifico fotografico", Studio Marconi 1 /2, January 1978, pp 49, 52
 * Lopes Cardozo, Judith, "Roberta Allen" (review) Artforum, February 1978, pp 73, 74
 * "Artists Books/Bookworks", catalogue of Australian Tour, 1978, p 10
 * "Artists' Books", catalogue of New Zealand Tour, 1978, p 10
 * "Artists' Books USA", catalogue of traveling exhibition, 1978-1980
 * Peccolo, Robert*o, "Aphoto", catalogue of exhibition at Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy, 1977, pp 16-21
 * Eakins, Patricia, "Roberta Allen" (review) Womanart, Fall 1977, p 28
 * Lubell, Ellen, "Roberta AllTennessee Williams Fellow In Creative Writing/Writer In Residence, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1998.
 * Deitch, Jeffrey, "Roberta Allen", (article), Arts Magazine, June 1977, p 6
 * Art-Rite No. 14, 1977, Artists' Books, Statement by the artist
 * Artweek October 16, 1976 Vol. 7, No. 35
 * Auping, Michael, "New Work/New York" catalogue of exhibition at California State University, Los Angeles, 1976.
 * Brody, Jacqueline, "Roberta Allen" (Multiples & Objects & Artists' Books"), The Print Collector's Newsletter, May-June 1975, p 46
 * Lubell, Ellen, "Alighiero E. Boetti/Roberta Allen" (review), Arts Magazine, April 1975, pp 19, 20
 * Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, "Roberta Allen" (review), Artforum, May 1974, p 69
 * Frank, Peter, "Roberta Allen" (review) The Soho Weekly News, Vol. 1, No. 22, March 7, 1974; pp

Writing Bibliography

 * Shaw, Janet, “Quicksilver Nightmares.” The New York Times Book Review, June 8, 1986, 36.
 * “Metaphor in Midocean.” “Noted With Pleasure,” (Excerpt) The New York Times Book Review, June 22, 1986, 39.
 * Indiana, Gary, “Have Pain Will Travel.” The Village Voice, Books, December 23, 1986, 72.
 * D’Erasmo, Stacey, “The Daughter by Roberta Allen.” The Village Voice Literary Supplement, September 1992, 5.
 * Lopate, Leonard, (Radio Interview) New York & Company, WNYC, National Public Radio, February 18, 1993.