ALLISON SCHULNIK
Born 1978, San Diego, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2000 BFA, Experimental Animation, CalArts, Valencia, CA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2012-13 Dark Matter, Galerie Division in Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2011 Performances, Division Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2010 Home for Hobo, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Home for Hobo Too, Tony Wight, Chicago, IL
2009 Go West, 1/9 Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Go West, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, New York, NY
2008 No Luck Too, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Fools, Rejects and Sanctuaries, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
No Luck, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITION
2011 New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Cryptic, St Louis Contemporary Arts Museum, St Louis, Missouri
The Archaic Revival, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Postermat, The Hole, New York, NY
Gray Day, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Homunculi, CANADA, New York, NY
Touched, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Reframing America, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Power of Selection 3, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Elements of Nature, Contemporary Arts Museum, New Orleans
The Power of Selection, Part 1, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Allison Schulnik : Forest, The Hammer Museum, Flux Screenings, Los Angeles, CA
Allison Schulnik: Recent Videos, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Hobo Clown, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Artefiera Art First, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2009 Whaddaya Wanna Be a Flower? Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Small is Beautiful, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, Korea
Close to Home, Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milan, IT
Too Big Too Fail, store-front, curated by Dan Heidkamp, Brooklyn, NY
Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Hafia Museum of
Art, Hafia, Israel
NewNow • Building the Museum Collection, The Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Single Channels: Animations, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
La Femme, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Jeff Zilm & Allison Schulnik, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Holy Destruction, Polad-Hardouin, Paris, France
Psychic Hearts, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, Los Angeles, CA
Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Sleights of Hand, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Five Year Anniversary Show, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2008 The Unruly and the Humorous, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Some Paintings: The Third LA Weekly Annual Biennial, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Warm, Red, Salt and Wet, 31 Grand, New York, NY
A Loaf of Bread, A Carton of Milk, and a Stick of Butter, Hudson Franklin, NY
HangART-7: Edition: Los Angeles, Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria, curated by Hubert
Schmalix and Lioba Reddeker
Artissima Contemporary Art Fair, 1/9 Unosunove Arte Contemporanea booth,
Turin, Italy
Bluemen/Flowers, Galerie Huebner, Frankfurt, Germany
Romancing the Skull, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Mark Moore Gallery Presents, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
Benefit Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Art in Embassies Exhibition, US Embassy Residence, Belmopan, Belize
2005 Project Room, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
The Armory Show, Black Dragon Society booth, New York, NY
Group, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Epic, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
Horses #6, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Amfar 2x2 Benefit for Aids and Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2003 The Gentle Artists Show, FIG Gallery, Austin, TX
The One Second Film, Exhibition, Frame #3 Director, CalArts Main Gallery, CA
2000 San Diego Art Association 45th Annual International Exhibition, San Diego, CA
Paintings and Drawings, CalArts, Valencia, CA
SCREENINGS
2010 First Thursdays series, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, TX
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ann Arbor International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Melbourne International Festival of Animation, Melbourne, Australia
International Film Festival Breda, The Netherlands
Puppet Grinder Cabaret, London, UK
Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany
Cartoon Express, Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Birds Eye View Film Festival, London, UK
2009 Hobo Clown, Cyprus Arcade Experimental Art Projects, Greece
Hobo Clown, Festa Grande (Immagine‘), NABA, Milan, It
Death of Distortion, Anthology Film Archives, NY
New Filmmakers LA, Sunset Gower Studios, Hollywood, CA
2000 Vedma, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbra, CA
The Chaney Family Collection, Houston, TX
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
FILMS
2009 Forest, NTSC color DVD, stop-motion claymation animated film
2008 Hobo Clown, NTSC color DVD, stop-motion claymation animated film
2000 Pistachio, 16mm, stop-motion animated film
1999 Vedma, 16mm, stop-motion animated film
1997 The Slaying, 16mm live-action/stop-motion animated film
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