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