Theodora Allen
Theodora Allen (born 1985 in Los Angeles) is an American visual artist and painter known for quiet, symbolic images. She earned a BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2009 and an MFA from UCLA in 2014. She is represented by BLUM in Los Angeles, Kasmin in New York, and 12.26 in Dallas. Her work has been shown at museums such as the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, as well as at galleries including Sprüth Magers, Almine Rech, Nicolai Wallner, Jeffrey Deitch, and Berggruen Gallery.
In 2013 she worked with Saint Laurent, creating an artist book titled 49 Paintings as an invitation to the Fall/Winter 2013 women’s collection. In 2021 Motto Books published her monograph Saturnine, which documents her Aarhus show and later traveled to Chicago. Critics often highlight her meditative symbolism and restrained, quiet visuals.
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