ALLYSON PACKER
WORKS
VIDEOS
BIOGRAPHY
Education
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2016
BFA with Honors and Distinction, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009
Solo Exhibitions
2021 - The Shape of a Hole in the Ground, birds + Richard, Albuquerque
2020 - Sounding, Mildred Hawn Gallery at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2020 - Inland Sea, Las Cruces Museum’s Brannigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM
2019 - Homonyms, Holland Projects, Reno, NV
2019 - Portal/Portal, Trapdoor Projects, Albuquerque, NM
2018 - Artist in Residence Exhibition, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2018 - Interior Space, University of Illinois Springfield Visual Art Gallery, Springfield, IL
2018 - Liquid State, Vitrine Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2017 - Plazas, Radical Abacus, Santa Fe, NM
2015 - Things That You Feel, Present, Chicago, IL
2015 - (provisional) Park, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2014 - Stop Crying, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2013 - (and by you I mean me), Small Engine, Albuquerque, NM
2011 - As Much as I Can Carry: Personal Plans for Survival, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2010 - Plans for a No Man's Land, The Petting Zoo Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 - Words That You Feel (performance), University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2021 - This is Where We Are Right Now, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 - LINES, birds + Richard, Albuquerque
2020 - ESPUSA.FYI, Flatland Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 - „Lady’s Club“ - A Room for One’s Own, birds + Richard, Berlin
2019 - Living for Love, OHKLAHOMO, Chicago, IL
2017 - The Dangerous Professors, Triumph Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 - I am NOT Tino Sehgal, Nahmad Projects, London
2016 - Ground Floor Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 - More Strange Than True, Fieldwork Collaborative Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 - New Work, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2015 - Wave Forms, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2015 - At the Headwaters, Miller Beach Gallery, Gary, IN
2014 - New Blood, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2014 - Art Shanties 2014, Art Shanties Projects, Minneapolis, MN
2013 - I Wear It on the Outside, Because It’s How I Feel on the Inside, Small Engine, Albuquerque, NM
2012 - Two Word Jewels, A Gathering of Tribes, New York
2012 - Taller de Intercambio, collaborative performance with Cuadrante Creativo, Albuquerque, NM and Culiacán, México
2012 - Archive, Underground Symposium of Electronic Art, Albuquerque, NM
2011 - Artist in Residence Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2011 - For This is What We Do, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 - What I Do in the Morning, VSA North Fourth Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2009 - The Suburban Frontier, The Nightlight Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2018 - Funded Residency, University of Illinois Springfield and Enos Park Residency Program, Springfield, IL
2018 - Visiting Artist in Residence, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD,
2018 - Visiting Curators Program Fellow, Central Features Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2018 - Official Selection for the 2018 Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts
2017 - TIME Artist Grant, New Mexico Arts (a Division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs), Santa Fe, NM, 2017
2016 - Artist in Residence, Wagon Station Encampment, A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
2016 - Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 - Roads Scholarship for Research and Travel, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 - Neiman Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 - Artist in Residence, Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC
2014 - Design/Build Grant, Art Shanties Projects, Minneapolis, MN
2011 - Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2010 - Kathryn Crissey Emerging Artist Fellowship, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2008 - Resident Intern Artist, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN
2008 - Kachergis Scholarship Award in Studio Art, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Bibliography
Grimason, Maggie. Allyson Packer: Liquid State, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, 2018.
Faingold, Scott. Interiority Exteriorized at UIS Gallery, The Illinois times, Springfield, IL, 2018
Bonami, Francesco. Catalogue essay, I am Not Tino Sehgal. Nahmad Projects, 2016
Hazel, Tempestt. Catalogue essay, Ground Floor Biennial. Hyde Park Art Center, 2016
Urchick, Stephen. Potted Plants, Public Parks, “(Provisional) Park” Problematizes Houseplants at the Co-Prosperity Sphere, South Side Weekly, Chicago, IL, 2015
Artwork featured in Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, Rizzoli, New York, NY, 2010
Professional Experience
Faculty (Lecturer), University of North Texas, Denton TX, 2019-present
Visting Faculty, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, 2018
Part-time Faculty, Foundations Program, University of New Mexico, 2017
Part-time Faculty, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM, spring 2017
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (First Year Seminar), 2016
Presentations, Symposia, and Conferences
Sit In/Walk Out: Teaching Strategies for Nonviolent Resistance in an Institutional Context, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 2019
Dissemination and Its Opposites, Artist talk at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, October 2018
Empty Pools, Artist talk at the University of Illinois, Springfield, July 2018
The Inland Sea, C-Space Summer Artist Talks, C-Space, Albuquerque, NM, June 2018
Guest Panelist, Intro to Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico, December 2016
Little Islands in the City: Chicago’s (provisional) Park, Symposium on Social Practice in Arts Economies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 2016
Some Things That Look Like Other Things, Visual and Critical Studies Spring Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2015
Presenter for the Lived Practice Consortium, A Lived Practice, Conference at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 2014
Mapping as a Creative Process, Women and Creativity Conference, the Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM, March 2013
Mapping NODA, workshop for UMAR and the University of North Carolina Charlotte, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, October 2011