BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN ART JULIES ALLEN, Photographer Jules Allen (born September 13, 1947) is a photographer and a tenured professor in the Art & Photography Department of Queensboro Community College, City University of New York, where he has taught for two decades. He was born in San Francisco, California. He shares the belief of photographer Diane Arbus, who states, “the more specific a thing is, the more general.” The artist, Danny Dawson has said, Allen has a “keen eye for the obvious” in his lifelong work evocative of the contemporary black experience. His images place subjects drawn from the richness of black life within universal paradigms. They have inspired collaborations with journalists, visual artists, musicians, playwrights, poets, filmmakers. Allen’s books include Hats and Hat Nots, Black Bodies and 2011 publication on boxing life in New York Citys Gleasons Gym, Double Up: Photographs by Jules Allen, and the 2013 publication of In Your Own Sweet Way, a personal and intimate collection of photographic conversations across the continent of Africa. Exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, as shown in the Permanent Museum Collections & Exhibition listing below, he is the recipient of grants and awards. His photographs are housed in museum collections worldwide.[citation needed] His commercial and corporate work has been seen on covers of national publications such as Business Week, Forbes and Black Enterprise magazines as well as within the Annual Reports of corporate boards and clients within the music industry. Permanent collections New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Agnes B, Paris, France Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Queensborough Community College/CUNY, New York, NY Dreyfus Fund, New York, NY Overholland Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Exhibitions Leica Gallery, Double Up Solo Exhibition, New York, NY, November 16, 2012 through January 5, 2013 Propositions on the Permanent Collection, Group Exhibition, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY, 2009 Marching Bands Exhibit, Solo Exhibition, The Jazz Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 Photographs: Jules Allen, Solo Exhibition, Institute of African Affairs, NY University, New York, NY, 2006 Imagines Havana, Group Exhibition of Latin, Caribbean and U.S. photographers, Santiago/ Havana, Cuba, co-sponsored by Fototeca, Royal Nederland’s Embassy and The Washington Post, 2004 African American Masters, American Museum of Natural History, Traveling Exhibition, 2004 Americanos, Group Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, shown in 26 cities; Washington DC, New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, Omaha, St. Petersburg, Tucson, Milwaukee, Boston, Charlotte, 2002 Life of the City, Group Exhibition, Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2002 Committed to the Image, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2001 Harlem, Group Exhibition, Leica Gallery, New York, NY, 2000 Black New Yorkers/ Black New York, Group Exhibition, Schomburg Center, New York, NY, 1999 Americanos: Latino Life in the United States, Group Exhibition, and Museum of the City of New York, NY, 1999 Living for the City, Group Traveling Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1997 Icon to Narrative: Harlem, Group Exhibition, IRADAC Center, New York, NY, 1998 Domestic Abuse Awareness Project, Group Exhibition & Auction, Kent Gallery, New York, NY, 1997 Million Man March, Group Exhibition, Del Pryor Galleries, Detroit, MI, 1997 Hats and Hat Nots, Solo Exhibition, Drew University, New Jersey, 1995 Gesture and Pose, Group Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1994 Our Town, Group Exhibition, Burden Gallery, New York, NY, 1993 In the Ring, Solo Exhibition, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, 1993 Hats and Hat Nots, Solo Exhibition, QCC Art Gallery, CUNY, Bayside, Queens, NY, 1993 Public Photographs, Solo Exhibition, 60 Bus Shelters Throughout Harlem], NY, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, 1992 Songs of My People, Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Museum of the City of New York, NY, 1992 Fighting Spirit, Solo Exhibition, Delta Axis Arts Center, Memphis, TN, 1992 Home, Group Exhibition, De Meervaart Cultural Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1991 Two Photographers, Group Exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991 On the Edge, Group Exhibition, Henry Street Settlement House, New York, NY, 1991 Mean Streets, Group Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991 Contemporary Urban Images, Group Exhibition Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 1990 The Knife, Group Exhibition, Agnes B. Gallery, Paris France, 1990 Black USA, Group Exhibition, Overhollander Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1990 Photography and the Culture Climate, Solo Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989 A Little More Towards the Light, Solo Exhibition, Shadow Image Gallery, New York, NY, 1989 Awards & Presentations QCC Presidential Lecture: Jules T. Allen: Conjure, Light, Forward Momentum BaysidePatch, April 2, 2013 Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award, Queensborough Community College, April 20, 2012 International Center of Photography, New York Street Stories, Lecture/Seminar, New York, NY, May 11, 2012 Southeast Queens Camera Club, Jamaica, NY, Lecture April 17, 2012 SOHO Photo Gallery, PhotoGroup Salon, Group Lecture, New York, NY, January 18, 2012 Portfolio, Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Fall/Winter 2010 Lecture, Hatch Billups Artist & Influence, New York, NY, 2009 Research & Photography Grant Funding, CETL Grants & Awards City University of New York, NY, 2004–2009 Research & Photography Grant Funding, CETL Grants & Awards City University of New York, NY, 2003 Imagines Havana, Documentary Photography Panel, Seminar for Latin, Caribbean and US photographers; co-sponsored by The Washington Post and Fototeca, 2003 Research & Photography Grant Funding, City University of New York, NY, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, 1994–99; 2001 Award, New York Council of the Arts, & Public Art Fund Presentation; “60 Bus Stop Shelters,” City College of New York, NY, 1992 Photography Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1991 Panelist, Society for Photographic Education, Santa Fe, NM, 1990 Grant, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 1986 Judge, Photography Panel, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY, 1986 Fine Arts Panelist, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Boston, MA, 1986 Photography Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, 1985 Award, CAPS, Photography, New York, NY, 1980 Jules Allen Marching Bands 2006 Africa Series 2005
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