Allen received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He was a co-director of Camp Fig gallery from 2004 until the gallery closed its doors in 2006. Together with 8 other artists he founded and currently co-directs Okay Mountain in Austin. He has shown at the Austin Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and various galleries across Texas including Art Palace in Austin and Road Agent in Dallas, and received residencies in Nebraska, New York, and Vermont. Allen recently completed residencies at the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program <http://www.artpace.org/> in San Antonio, Texas, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art <http://www.bemiscenter.org/> in Omaha, Nebraska, as well as a solo project at VOLTA NY <http://ny.voltashow.com/index.php> during the Armory Show.