Selected Solo Projects
2025
"Monmouth Beach Rising," outdoor video projection with sound, Monmouth Arts, Monmouth Beach, NJ, Oct. 3-4.
2020
“Hive at Rice,” Rice University, commissioned by Rice Public Art, the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX. 2019
"Flow," Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.
2018
“Inside/Out,” Cherryhurst House, Houston, TX. 
2015
"Zoosphere," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. A version was exhibited at Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX., 2016,
commissioned by DiverseWorks, Houston, TX., 2010.
2014
"Inter/Action," commissioned by the Houston Arts Alliance for "Transported + Renewed" arts festival, Houston, TX.
2013
"New Animals," Rice University, BRC Gallery, Houston, TX.
2011
"Hanging by a Thread," Alliance Gallery, Houston, TX
2009
"Allison Hunter," Artspace, Raleigh, NC.
2008
"Allison Hunter: Slower Still," Women & Their Work, Austin, TX.
2007
"Allison Hunter: New Animals," Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX.
"Allison Hunter: New Animals," MKG Art Space, Houston, TX.
2006
“Allison Hunter: Simply Stunning,” 511 Gallery, New York, NY.
“Allison Hunter,” Kinzelman Art Consulting, in conjunction with "FotoFest 2006," Houston, TX.
2004 "Allison Hunter: New Work," 511 Gallery, New York, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2024
The CM Top 50 Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO.
2023
“The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure,” Sculpture Month Houston 2023, SITE Gallery Houston, Houston, TX.
2021
"Altamira: The Primal Urge to Create,” Sculpture Month Houston 2021, SITE Gallery Houston, Houston, TX.
"Animal Nitrate," Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, TX.
"A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance," Flatiron Project Space, New York, NY.
"The Chaney Family: A Contemporary Art Collection," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, TX.
"Four Sight," Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY.
2019
"HERE: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been," Main Gallery, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY.
2018
(screening) "POWERFUL VULNERABLE," Aurora Picture Show, Houston.
"Learning from the Bees," Doorn and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (screening)
“The Dangerous Professors – Houston Edition,” Flatland Gallery, Houston.
2017
(screening) “17 Days," Video Series, Alfred State College (Alfred, NY) and Western Michigan State University (Kalamazoo, MI).
(screening) "Architecture of Family," Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.
2016
"Wild Waves Winding," 12 Minutes Max, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. (performance in collaboration with Christina Keefe and Melissa Noble)
"Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene," University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY.
“Kaleidoscope: Approaching Nature," Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX.
2015
"Retreat," Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX.
"Plant People," Galveston Art Residency, Galveston, TX.
2014
"Hunter / Plum," Alliance Gallery, Houston, TX.
"Nykarleby Recall - A Retrospective," Bothnia Bienale, Finland.
"New Visions: Polly Gaillard & Allison Hunter," Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL.
2013
"Ratio," Darke Gallery, Houston, TX.
"Parallax Views," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
“Multiple Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Albany Institute's Collection,” Albany Institute of History and Art, NY.
2012
"The Tower of Babel," Galleri Rotor, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden.
"Digital Darkroom," The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA.
"It's a Phase," Russ Pitman Park, Houston, TX.
"Looking at Animals," Eastfield College, Dallas, TX.
2011
"Currents," Rudolph Blume Fine Art | Artscan Gallery, Houston, TX.
"Natural Perceptions: Allison Hunter and Marilyn Jolly," Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX.
(screening) "Parallax Stereoscopic Video Art Festival," Prague, Czech Republic
"Other Nations," Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX.
2010
"Open Season," Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
"Texas Positivism Project," ArtBasel Miami, Miami, FL.
2008
"Fellowship 2008," Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Allison Hunter, Cindy Hurt, and Michelle Murillo,” The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, TX.
“Stretching the Truth,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI.
(screening) "Extremely Shorts 11," Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.
(screening) FilmSpark, Spark Con, Raleigh, NC, 9/21/08.
(screening) Animalia, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, NY.
2007
"Photography Now 2007," Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
“New American Talent 22,” Arthouse, Austin, TX.
“Harvest Moon Rising: Donna Durbin and Allison Hunter,” Space 125 Gallery, Houston, TX.
“Cold Cuts,” Rudolph Projects/Artscan Gallery, Houston, TX.
“Variations on the Horse,” 511 Gallery, Lake Placid, NY.
2006
“Positive/Negative,” Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.
2005
“Extreme: International Photography and Video Art,” Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany.
“The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY.
2004
“Industrial/Landscape,” The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga Springs, NY.
“Hudson Mohawk Invitational Exhibition,” Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY.
2003
"2003 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region,"  University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY.
“Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5,” ASK (Art Society of Kingston), Kingston, NY.
“Noah’s Ark: Animals Among Us,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY.
“Photography Now 2003,” Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
“Spring Invitational Exhibition,” SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY.
"Small Works Invitational," SOHO Chelsea, New York, NY.
“Americana,” School of Visual Arts Westside Gallery, New York, NY.
“Stop and Go,” City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ.
2002
“Eighth International Exhibition of Women’s Art,” SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY.
“2002 Exhibition of the Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region,” Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY.
1999
“Gathering Information: Photography and the Media,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
“Twenty-First Annual Photography Regional,” Rensselaer County, Center for the Arts, Troy, NY.
“Twenty-Five Years of Photography,” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1997
“1997 Exhibition of the Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region,” University Art Museum, Albany, NY.
Residencies & Awards
2023
Grant: Climate Resilience Community-Based Art Project from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts 
Award: Top 50 Critical Mass award, Photolucida.
Award: Photographer of the Year winner, Category "People" at the Professional level, International Photography Awards 2023
Award: Excellence in Photography, Communication Arts Journal Award: AI-AP Chosen Winner American Photography 38
2020
Award: Support for Artists and Creative Individuals (SACI) Grant, Houston Arts Alliance
2019
Award: Finalist, Artadia Houston 2019. Residency: NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Season II, Brooklyn, NY.
2018
Residency: Ayatana Research
Residency, Submerge, thematic residency on the subject of water, Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
Residency: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
2017
Residency: La Porte Peinte Centre Pour les Arts (The Painted Door Center for the Arts), Noyers, France.
Residency: Sculpture and New Media, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY.
2016
Artist Teacher: Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art program.
2015
Award: Faculty Grant, Humanities Research Center's Public Humanities Initiative at Rice University.
Award: Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
2011
Award: Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
2010
Artist-in-Residence: University of Houston, The Mitchell Center and Texas Learning & Computation Center
2008
Award: Honorable mention, “Silver Eye Fellowship 2008”
2007
Creative Capital Professional Development Program, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
2006
Award: Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
2003
Award: Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts. Residency: Pirkkala Sculpture Symposium, Pirkkala, Finland.
2002
Residency: AiR (Artists in Residence), The Swedish Polytechnic, Nykarleby, Finland.
Guest Artist: Master Class, Baltic Photoschool, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Award: Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts.
2001
Residency: The Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale, Pedvale, Latvia.
Award: Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts.
2000
Guest Artist: Alternative Cinema Series, Colgate University, Dept. of Art and Art History, Hamilton, NY.
1998
Residency: Hermit Center for Metamedia, Plasy, Czech Republic.
1997
Residency: Banff Centre, Fall, “Apocalypso,” Thematic Residency, Banff, Canada.

Education 

Master of Arts, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York, New York, NY
Master of Fine Art in Electronic Art, Department of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Diplôme (MFA equivalent), Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Undergraduate Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art,  Baltimore, MD