MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999
BA University of the South: Sewanee, 1994
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Waiting Between Trees, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
The Shape of Passing Time, Bankers Alley, Nashville, TN
2022 Caroline Allison, Elevate, 21C Hotel, Nashville
They Were There for Everyone, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville,TN
2021 Behind the Moon, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
2019 A History of Snow, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
2017 Caroline Allison, Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL
2016 Underground Again, Caroline Allison & Patrick DeGuira, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
2013 A Common Place, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville,VA
2012 More Than You Know, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
2011 the low down, Slow Gallery, Chicago
2010 A Common Place, University Art Gallery, Sewanee,TN
A Common Place, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2006 Somewhere and not Anywhere, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
2002 Rooms: Photographs by Caroline Allison and Peggy Casey, Chicago Cultural Center
2001 Suite, NFA Space, Chicago
2000 Epic Moments, NFA Space, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solar Wind, Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2022 Quartet, ZieherSmith, Nashville,TN
churrs, chakks, rrrrs, University of the South: Sewanee
Summer Stories, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Under the Sun and the Moon, online, Humble Arts Foundation
2020 ZieherSmith at Virgin Hotel, Nashville,TN
Highlander Libraries, University Art Gallery, Sewanee,TN
2019 Xanadu, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
Land Derived Sentiments, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
Terra Firma, Hutcheson Gallery, David Lipscomb University, Nashville,TN
2018 Vestige, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville,TN
2017 Luminous Animals, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014 Caroline Allison, 404 Hotel, Nashville,TN
2013 Scenes from the South, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
Joint Pop Up, Nashville,TN.
Someone I Know, online, Curated by Stuart Pilkington.
2012 Breadbox, ZieherSmith, Nashville,TN
2011 BNA: Brooklyn to Nashville, ZieherSmith, Nashville,TN
2010 A Common Place, Art+Culture, NYC
Modern Girl, Tennessee Customs House Museum
2009 I Thought Our Worlds Were the Same, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville (curator)
The 50 States Project, curated by Stuart Pilkington.
2008 Emerging Artist Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC
This Modern World, General Electric, Fairfield, CT. Curator: Paddy Johnson
Dialogues: Photography, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville
Positive/Negative, Slocumb Gallery, Eastern Tennessee State University
2007 Counterpoint, Carlos Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee
2005 No Apology for Breathing, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn. Curator: Matthew Lusk.
-SCOPE Art Fair, Sara Nightingale Gallery with Rachel Owens, NYC
2004 Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin, NYC. Curator: Matthew Lusk.
2003 The Accords: New Tandem Projects, Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Allison, Bergdorf Goodman, NYC
Backroom, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002 One Day, In a Day, Ever yday, APEX art, NYC
Staged/Unstaged, Riva Gallery, NYC. Curator: Laurie Firstenberg
AIM 22,The Bronx Museum of Art, NYC
Untitled Storefront, Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN
4 Emerging Women Artists, Northeastern University Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stories in Color, University Gallery, Sewanee,TN
2000 Caroline Allison, Bjorn Sterri, and Bonnie O’Hara, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville,TN
The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Sotheby’s ArtLink, Selected works sold at auction in Tel Aviv, Chicago, and Vienna
Exterior Relations, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
1999 HOUSE, Gold Star Complex, Chicago, IL (Curator)
Off the Walls, NFA Space, Chicago, IL
Still, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
National Exposure,ARC Gallery,Chicago,IL. Curator:ColinWesterbeck
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Winter Arts Guide, Nashville Scene, January 2024, Cover.
“Caroline Allison at Zeitgeist Gallery”, Joe Nolan, Burnaway, November 2021
“Ministry of the Arts”, Podcast by s. spivey, Vanderbilt Divinity School, November 2020
Sara Lee Burd, ”Best EcoFocused Artist Series”, Nashville Scene, October 2020
Joe Nolan, “Critic/Ally: Caroline Allison”, Nashville Scene, October 2019
Joe Nolan, Crawl Space: September 2019, Nashville Scene
Laura Hutson Hunter,“State of the Art:An Undiscovered Secret”, nFocus, September 2017
E.C.Flamming,“ZeitgeistGallery brings Luminous Animals to Whitespace”, Burnaway, July2017
Monica Collier,“Caroline Allison: Everywhere is Somewhere”, Times Daily, November 2017
Elaine Akin, “Studio Visit: Caroline Allison in Nashville”, Burnaway, June 1, 2016
Libby Callaway, “Caroline Allison, Photographer”, The Callaway Report, November 3, 2016
Veronica Kavass, "Cool and Collected...", Nashville Scene, May 16, 2013
Laura Hutson Hunter,“New Photographs by Caroline Allison are a field guide to broken history”, Nashville Scene, Oct. 17, 2012
Laura Hutson Hunter, "Studio Visit: Caroline Allison", Country Life/Nashville Scene, Oct 2012
MiChelle Jones, “Photographer Caroline Allison examines overlooked aspects of familiar sites”, The Tennessean, Oct 2012
Libby Callaway, Our Voice: Imogene + Willie, “Caroline Allison”, January 12, 2012
“Brooklyn Art by Way of Nashville, Courtesty of Zieher Smith”, NewYork Observer (image,), July 28, 2011
Joe Nolan,"Art Crawl Plays Host to Zieher Smith," Nashville Scene,August 4,2011
“ZieherSmith Pops Up in Tennessee”, Art in America, July 29, 2011
“Many Truths”, Chicago Weekly, May 10, 2011.
The Oxford American Magazine, December 2010
Joe Nolan. “I Thought Our Worlds Were the Same”, Nashville Scene, March 19, 2009.
Andrea Kurland, “The Face of America”, Huck Magazine, July 2009
Claire O’Neill, “50 States Project”, Daily Picture Show, NPR, April 2009
JonathanMarx. “Let’sTalkaboutArt”,TheTennessean,April27,2008.
John Bransom. “Caroline Allison: Somewhere and not Anywhere”, Number, Winter 2007
“Get Out”, City Paper, October 3, 2006, image
David Maddox. “Every Nowhere is Somewhere”, Nashville Scene, September 28, 2006, image “Critic’s Picks: Caroline Allison, Mark Bynon, Richard Feaster”, Nashville Scene, September 7, 2006
HollandCotter. “ArtinReview:NoApologyforBreathing”,NewYorkTimes,August12,2005
Benjamin Carlson. “Some Exhaust Review”, Time Out New York, September 2-9, 2004
"Goings On About Town: Some Exhaust," The New Yorker, Sept 6, 2004
Karen Rosenberg. “Car Culture”, New York Magazine, August 16, 2004, image
Michael Weinstein. “Critic’s Picks: Suite”, New City, May 24, 2001
Polly Ullrich. “Who is the next Potter Palmer? In Search of the New Generation of Chicago Art Collectors,” New Art Examiner, September 2000 (cover image)
Alan Bostick. “See it or feel it or just gawk,” The Tennessean, June 1, 2000
Mary Houlihan. “Young at Art,” The Chicago Sun-Times, May 28, 2000, image
Olga Zdanovics. “Caroline Allison at NFA Space,” New Art Examiner, April 2000
Krista Peel. “Art, Maybe Entertainment,” Weepmag, February 29, 2000
Sotheby’s InternationalYoung Art, Exhibition Catalogue, 2000
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, LECTURES
2023 Natural by Design, Frist Art Museum & Civic Design Center
Artist in Residence, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Fellowship from The Hambidge Center
2022 Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission
Artist Presentation, 21C Nashville
2019 Artist in Residence, RefugeArts, Appleton,WI
Artist Talk: Lost Message: Mapping a Political Landscape, Refuge Arts
2018 Image Building, Frist Art Museum & Civic Design Center
2017 ArtistTalk: A Common Place, Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts
2011 Artist Forum Talk, Frist Art Museum, Nashville,TN
2010 Nominee, Baum Foundation Prize
Artist Talk, University of the South, Sewanee,TN
2008 Panel Conversation,“Contemporary Dialogues in Photography”, Zeitgeist Gallery
2007 Ruby Green Contemporary Art Foundation, Studio Fellow
2006 Collaborative Lecture: ’Changes in the American Cultural Landscape’, University of Turku, Finland
2002 AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
2001 Artist in Residence,Amt furWissenschaft und Kunst,Frankfurt,Germany
2000 Visiting Artist,The University of the South, Sewanee,TN