Courtney Allen (b.1988) is an American artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores our relationship to nature and the built environment. Splendor, published with Deadbeat Club Press, is her debut monograph.

She is co-founder of the curatorial project, Magic the Gallery. She received her BS in Photojournalism from Boston University in 2010.

^{EXHIBITIONS + TALKS}

Photobook Austin, Conversation with Rahim Fortune, Tracy Chandler and Eli Durst, April 2025
Webber Gallery, Hard Copy Los Angeles, curated by Aaron Stern, Los Angeles, 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

^PRESS

Lenscratch, conversation with Tracy L. Chandler
Nearest Truth, Episode 447 
Harper’s Magazine, Art Desk
Photo-eye
Booooooom
Lenscratch
Noice Magazine 
Ephemere
AFilmCosmos Post-Contemporary 
C41 Magazine
Rental Magazine 
Conflict of Interest 
Fields Magazine 
Austin Art Alliance
Peachfuzz Magazine

^RECOGNITION

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

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

Via Visiting Artists


courtrallen@gmail.com @courtneyreams