Courtney Allen (b.1988) is an American artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Splendor, published with Deadbeat Club Press, is her debut monograph.

She is co-founder of the curatorial project, Magic the Gallery.

^{EXHIBITIONS + TALKS}

Bildband Berlin, Group exhibition, October 2026
Filter Photo, On The Shelf 2026, juried by Nick Larsen, Chicago, 2026
Webber Gallery, Hard Copy Los Angeles, curated by Aaron Stern, Los Angeles, 2025

Photobook Austin, Conversation with Rahim Fortune, Tracy Chandler and Eli Durst, Austin, 2025
Picturehouse + Small Darkroom, Artist talk, New York, 2024
NOICE Magazine & ephemere, Happening Happenstance, Tokyo, 2024
Marathon Gallery, Is it a dream or a memory?, New York, 2023

^RECOGNITION

Belfast Photo Festival, Photo-Book Winner, 2026
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024, Portfolio prize winner, 2024
Photo-eye, 2024 Favorite Photobooks, 2024
Photo Phlo, “Failed image” winner, 2024
Urbanautica, Harmony with Ragusa Foto Festival, 2022

^PRESS

Urbanautica Institute Awards Catalog, 1st Edition
Visiting Artists, No. 2
Small Photobook Cult, Episode 34 
Lenscratch, conversation with Tracy L. Chandler
Nearest Truth, Episode 447 
Harper’s Magazine, Art Desk
Photo-eye, Favorite Books 2024
Booooooom
Lenscratch, conversation with Tim Carpenter
Noice Magazine 
Ephemere
AFilmCosmos Post-Contemporary 
C41 Magazine
Rental Magazine 
Conflict of Interest 
Fields Magazine 
Austin Art Alliance
Peachfuzz Magazine

2022, Chico Portfolio Review
2020, The Photobook: From Start to Finish
2010, BS in Photojournalism, Boston University

Via Visiting Artists


courtrallen@gmail.com
@courtneyreams