Lynne Allen

Lynne Allen is Professor of Art and Director of the School of Visual Arts in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University since 2006. Previously she was a Professor of Art at Rutgers University from 1989 and Master Printer and Educational Director at Tamarind Institute from 1983-1987. Allen’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art Library; the New York Public Library, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Selected important exhibition venues include the Brooklyn Museum of Art “Digital Now” Print National, the Whitney Museum of American Art ‘New Editions’, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the James Michener Museum, PA. International exhibitions include the Guanlan Biennial, China; the 5th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; The Novosibirsk Print Biennial, Russia; the 21st Ljubljana Print Biennial, Slovenia; and the International Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia. Allen’s honors include two Fulbright Scholarships (USSR 1990, Jordan 2004-05) and two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grants. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.