Allison Olivia Evans
[Image description: A black and white photograph of Allison from behind and at an angle. Allison has light skin and short, dark hair. She is wearing a dark jumpsuit and boots, and is facing her studio door, hands affixing an aperture to the peephole in the door. On either side of her hands are vinyl signs stuck to the gray door. The one to the left shows the letters “i” “e” “w” and the one to the right is an arrow pointing to the peephole.]
Allison Olivia Evans is an artist and theorist in the Art History, Theory, Criticism and Art Practice Ph.D. program at UCSD. She graduated with her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. Researching the phenomenology of light, vitalist thought, New Materialism, and photographic histories, Evans generates experiential works that stress both the importance of embodiment and of nonhuman vitalities.
She has received awards and scholarships including the Redux Contemporary Art Center’s Award for Photography, the ISLA Graduate Student Research Award, and the University of Notre Dame’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. She has presented her research internationally and was named the Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence at Albion College in 2017. In the winter of 2019, she was invited to participate in the Nancy Holt Scholar’s Day at Dia Art Foundation.
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