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.

^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

^{EXHIBITIONS + TALKS}

Webber Gallery, Hard Copy Los Angeles, curated by Aaron Stern, Los Angeles, 2025

Photobook Austin, Conversation with Rahim Fortune, Tracy Chandler and Eli Durst, April 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

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