SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Chasing Firefly, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

2014 Kill Your Darlings, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Project Space, NYC

2013 Frame of View, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

2011 Dark Day, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

2007 Cross Lands, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

2006 14 Photographs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

2005 City Art, The Center for Architecture, NYC

2004 David S. Allee, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Refuge: Needing. Creating Shelter, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH

2022 Forever Friends: Art Preview, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC

2022 XX, Twenty Year Exhibition, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC

2021 Undercurrents, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

2020 Contemporary Art Preview, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC

2019 Metamorphosis: Climate Change, Hearst Galleries, NYC

2019 Auction Preview, Phillips New York, NYC

2018 Ethics of Depiction, Oakland University, Detroit, MI

2017 Art Now, Hearst Galleries, NYC

2016 Contemporary Art Benefit, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC

2015 The Omnivore’s Dilemma, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT

2014 Selections from the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC

2012 Behind the Wheel, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2009 Native Land, Foundation Cartier, Paris

2008 New Photography, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

2007 Revising Arcadia, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

2006 The Metropolis View, Art Directors Club, NYC

2004 Subway Series, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC

2002 Life in the City, Museum of Modern Art, NYC

2001 Mad in Pursuit, White Columns, NYC

2001 Photo Soho, Exit Art, NYC


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

The Art Institute of Chicago

Museum of Modern Art

The Knoxville Museum of Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Library of Congress

New York University

Foundation Cartier, Paris

21C Museum

Hearst Collection

Ruttenberg Foundation


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2020 The New York Times, “Showtime, Suspended,” April 21st.

2018 The New Yorker, Goings On, July 23rd.

2018 The New York Times, “Brooklyn's Visual Reboot,” (review of Brooklyn Now), by John Leland, Nov 15th.

2018 Brooklyn Photographs Now, edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Rizzoli, New York, 2018.

2018 May I Come In? edited by Wendy Goodman, Abrams Books, New York, 2018.

2017 Lomography, “The Magical Nightscapes of David Allee,” January 16th.

2017 Detroit Art Review, Ron Scott, September 20th.

2017 Photo District News, “Quiet Nights in the City and Country,” January 5th.

2017 ArtFCity, This Weeks Must See Art Events, Critics Pick for Chasing Firefly exhibit, January 3rd.

2017 Wall Street International, Review and Critics Pick for Chasing Firefly exhibit, January 20th.

2017 Feature Shoot, “Uncanny Photos Taken in the Dead of Night,” January 31st.

2014 The New Yorker, “Inside the Domino Sugar Factory,” May 19th.

2013 The New Yorker, Goings On section, photo and short list for Frame of View exhibit, February 4th.

2013 New York Magazine, Critics Pick for Frame of View exhibit, January 28th.

2013 Slate, “Framed,” Critics Pick for Frame of View exhibit, February 8th.

2011 New York Magazine, Critics Pick for Dark Day exhibit, January 17th.

2011 The Village Voice, “Black Hole Sun,” by Araceli Cruz, review of Dark Day exhibit, January 26th.

2011 Elephant, “David S. Allee: Mining the Light,” by Katya Tylevich, Frame Publishers, Netherlands.

2010 The New York Times, “Goodbye to Old Coney Island,” Op-Art section, December 10th.

2009 Native Land, by Raymond Depardon, Foundation Cartier, Paris.

2008 The New Yorker, “Hello, Columbus,” August 25th.

2007 The New Yorker, “Towers of Babel,” August 6th

2007 The New Yorker, “Lenses on the Lawn,” April 30th.

2006 The Village Voice, “Best in Show,” by R.C. Baker, November 16th.

2006 Metropolis, “Looking at the City: The 12 Most Influential Photographers,” by Criswell Lappin.

2006 American Photo, “State of the Art: Where to Go and What to See,” October.

2005 The New York Times, “The Week Ahead: Art/Architecture,” by Robin Pogrebin, June 5th.

2005 City Art. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, essays by Eleanor Heartney & Adam Gopnik; Merrell, London.


SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES AND TALKS

Guest lecturer, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Guest lecturer, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ

Featured speaker, The Making of City Art, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY

Panelist and Juror, MFA Alumni Scholarship Awards, The School of Visual Arts, NY

Artist talk, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Featured speaker, Three Emerging Photographers to Watch, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NY


EDUCATION

2001 MFA in Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1991 BA in Government and Economics, magna cum laude, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY