Select Screenings

2024
Punk is Not Dead, Fantoche 22nd International Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland

2022
London International Animation Festival, London, UK
Eager, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

2021
Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Arles, France
Eager, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Animix, the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel 
Landmarks, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom

2020
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 
September Gallery, Hudson, NY 

2017    
studio44filmfestival, Stockholm, SE

2015    
Vibes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
IMAGINALE, Stuttgart/Mannheim, DEU
Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, RUS
Before the GIF, The Highline, New York, NY 62nd Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, AUS

2014    
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, ON
Landscape City, curated by Jonah Fernandez Olson, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
ANIMAGE: International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Recife, BR
Animation Festival, Ziferburg, Saint Petersburg, RU
Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, FR
21st International Festival of Animated Film, Special Programme “Best of Animation” curated by Tsvika Oren, Stuttgart, DE
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, FL
Anacortes Unknown Music Series, Anacortes, WA Contemporary Animations in Art, Pocket Utopia, New York, NY Animation Breakdown, Cinefamily, Los Angeles, CA
SXSW Film Conference & Festival, Austin, TX

2013    
Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY
The Ill Points Festival, Miami, FL
Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF), Utrecht, NL

2012    
Squeaky Wheel Animation Festival, Buffalo, NY
Staring Eyes, Third Party, Cincinnati, OH
Les Petites Formes, Laterna Magica #9, The Marseille National Theater, Marseille, FR
Festival de Ciné de la Paz, San José, CR
Eureka!, Whitaker Court, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, IE
FilmFest Dresden, Dresden, DE
Through the Looking Glass: Female Surrealist Cinema, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011    
The Green Box Project, curated by Kathy Grayson, Miami, FL
Someplace I Don’t Belong, curated by John Palmer, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA Post-Digital Monsters, Pictoplasma, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, FR

2010    
Creative Time/MTV, Screenings in Times Square, New York, NY
First Thursdays series, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, TX
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ann Arbor International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Melbourne International Festival of Animation, Melbourne, AU International Film Festival Breda, Breda, NL
Puppet Grinder Cabaret, London, UK
Pictoplasma, Berlin, DE
Cartoon Express, Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Birds Eye View Film Festival, London, UK

2009    
Hobo Clown, Cyprus Arcade Experimental Art Projects, GR
Hobo Clown, Festa Grande (Immagine‘), NABA, Milan, IT
Death of Distortion, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY J
eff Zilm & Allison Schulnik, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
New Filmmakers LA, Sunset Gower Studios, Hollywood, CA

2000    
Vedma, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT

Select Public Collections

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Chaney Family Collection, Houston, TX
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Laguna Art Museum, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Museum des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Select Bibliography

2019    
K. Yoland, “5 Artists Mix Analog Cinema and Digital New Media,” Dallas News.

2018    
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in Galleries: Clay Today,” The New York Times.
Laura Hutson, “Two Shows Explore the Power of the Feminine,” Nashville Scene.
Kathleen Boyle, “States of Matter,” Nashville Arts.Joe Nolan, “Crawl Space,” Nashville Scene.

2017     
“Allison Schulnik’s Most Personal Project to Date: Nest at Javier Lopez Frances,” Artinfo.
“Installation: Allison Schulnik ‘Nest’,” Juxtapoz.
“Exhibition Highlight - Menagerie: Animals on View - Dogs,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery Blog.
Christian Noorbergen, Magazine Artension.

2016    
Jennifer Samet, “Vulnerability Could Be the New Stoic”: Paintings by Allison Schulnik,” Hyperallergic.
Chris Murtha, “Critic’s Pick,” ArtForum.
Torey Akers, “Allison Schulnik’s Frenzied Equestrian Feminisms,” Two Coats of Paint.
Scott Indrisek, “5 Can’t Miss Gallery Shows in New York,” Blouin ArtInfo.
Andrew M. Goldstein, Dylan Kerr, and Loney Abrams, “10 of the Best Artworks on View in Chelsea Right Now,” Artspace.
Florian Keller, “Plastilin: So lasset uns kneten,” WOZ Die Wochenzeitung.
Thomas Bodmer, “Plots in Plastilin: Schoen Viel Knete,” Züritipp.

2015    
Rachel Will, "L.A. Artist Allison Schulnik Talks Cats, Claymation, and Her Creative Process," Artsy.
Olivia Parkes, "Talking Mermaids and Bacchanalia with Painter Allison Schulnik," Broadly.
Chris Hampton, “Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation,” The New York Times.

2014    
Laura Hutson, “Critics Pick: Summer Reading,” Nashville Scene.
Jeffrey Bowers, “The Best Online Short Films of 2014”, Vice.
Josh Wigler, “Allison Schulnik Crafts An ‘Eager’ Dance”, MTV.
“Ensor’s Enduring Influence”, The Getty Magazine.
Alexander Mahany, “10 Cool Trends in Contemporary Ceramic Art”, ARTnews.
Bradley Rubenstein, “Glitter and Doom: Allison Schulnik + Bradley Rubenstein”, ArtSlant.
Susan Dunne, “Claymation Animator Brings Art Of Stop-Motion To Atheneum”, The Hartford Courant.
Anna Tokareva, “Eager by Allison Schulnik”.
Amid Amidi, “Allison Schulnik Exhibits Stop Motion Film at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum”, Cartoon Brew.
Jillian Steinhauer, “Uncovering the Feminine Grotesque”, Hyperallergic.
Alex Jovanovich, “Critics’ Picks: Allison Schulnik”, Artforum.

2013    
Bradley Rubenstein, “Little Q+A: Allison Schulnik + Bradley Rubenstein”, Culture Catch.
Danielle Kalamaras, “Arthouse films dominate Chelsea”, Metro NY.
Grace Moss, “Eager for Allison Schulnik at ZieherSmith”, Arte Fuse.
“Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process”, Princeton Architectural Press.

2012    
“Animation Sketchbooks”, Chronicle Books.
Dave Barton, “Allison Schulnik’s Laguna Babylon”, OC Weekly.
Liz Goldner, “Allison Schulnik”, ArtScene.
Alice Thorson, “Oppenheimers: Twenty Years Strong”, Kansas City Star.
Catherine Taft, “Allison Schulnik”, ArtForum International.
Joe Nolan, “Video Made the Gallery Star: ZieherSmith's Film Night”, Nashville Scene.
David Pagel, “Drawn in, only to be repulsed”, Los Angeles Times.
Marina Cashdan, “Friends Indeed/New Shows at Salon 94 Bowery and the Hole”, New York Times.

2011    
Michael Slenske, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man... Woman... or Fashion Collective”, WMagazine.
Laura Hutson, “Five Uneasy Pieces”, Nashville Scene.
Laura Hutson, “Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination”, Nashville Scene.
Ken Johnson, “Art in Review: Allison Schulnik”, New York Times.
Wayne Anderson, “Kansas’ Nerman Museum celebrates the unorthodox”, Columbia Daily Tribune.
“Goings On About Town: Art”, The New Yorker.

2010    
Jennifer Coates, “Review: Allison Schulnik, ‘Mound’”, Time Out New York.
Bradley Rubenstein, “Alphaville”, Culture Catch.
Scott Indrisek, “Why is Hip Young Painter Allison Schulnik So Obsessed With Cats?”, Artinfo.
Benjamin Sutton, “Allison Schulnik Sculpts Sad Clowns Out of Paint”, L Magazine.
“Allison Schulnik’s ‘Mound’ at ZieherSmith Gallery: A Sneak Peek”, Paper Magazine.
“100 Best Fall Gallery Shows”, Modern Painters.
Miles Christopher, “Art Around Town”, LA Weekly.
Shana Nys Dambrot, “Daily Dose Pick: Allison Schulnik”, Flavorwire.
Seth Curcio, “Interview with Allison Schulnik”, Daily Serving.

2009    
Ed Schad, “Schulnik in Santa Monica”, ArtSlant.
Heather Jeno Silva, “Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo”.
“Hobo Clown and Forest”, Guernica Magazine.
David Pagel, “Around the Galleries - David Pagel”, Los Angeles Times.
“Best of 2009”, Daily Serving.
“Hobo Clown: An Interview with Allison Schulnik”, Trap Door Sun.
Tom Christie, “Exclusive Interview with L.A. Artist Allison Schulnik”, LA Weekly.
Ryan Brockington, “Somewhere on an Iceberg, Bjork is Jealous”, New York Post,
Robert Enright, “Brilliant Rejects: An Interview with Allison Schulnik”, Border Crossings Magazine.
Audrey Davidow, “Mini Spree”, Angeleno Interiors.
“Review: Allison Schulnik/Artists Anonymous”, Exhibart.
Karen Rosenberg, “Toplessness and Taxidermy in a Bottoming Market”, New York Times.

2008    
Chris Bors, “Chins Up on Day One of Pulse”, Artinfo.
Robert Ayers, “Scope Finds Its Comic Side”, Artinfo.
Sara Harari, “Icing-Inspired Paintings: Allison Schulnik’s Unusually Thickly Painted Canvases”, Trendhunter Magazine.
Stephen Maine, “Allison Schulnik: Mike Weiss”, Art in America.
Rita Gonzalez, “Juror’s Pick”, New American Paintings.
Chiara Zampett, “La carica dei trentenni”, Domenica.
Andrew M. Simmons, “Allison Schulnik @ Mike Weiss Gallery”, Whitehot Magazine.
Christopher Bors, “Jennifer Coates in New York”, Artinfo.
Catherine Wagley, “Don’t Take it Too Seriously”, ArtSlant.
Fritz Neumüller, “Pazifikküstenkunst kommt an die Salzach”, Kurie.
“Kunst aus dem Vulkan – Los Angeles”, ORF.
“HangArt-7 widmet sich dem L.A.Potential”, GMX.
“Junge Kunst aus Los Angeles bie HangArt-7”, Kleine Zeitung.

2007    
“Indiciduell wie alle”, Salburger Nachrichter.
Dan DeNorch, “First Week in September”, ArtCal Zine.
“Kunst aus Staub”, Salzburger Nachrichten, Stadt und Land.
“Future Greats: Ones to Watch”, ArtReview.
Christopher Knight, “It’s Alive! With wit and diversity”, Los Angeles Times.
Doug Harve, “Some Paintings: Artists in the Third LA Weekly Annual Biennial”, LA Weekly.
Christopher Knight, “45 Painters Under 45”, Los Angeles Times.
Christopher Knight, “Five artists who help make the scene in LA”, Los Angeles Times.
“Highlights at Zoo Art Fair 2007, London”, Saatchi Daily Magazine.
“Debut: Allison Schulnik at Rokeby, London”, Saatchi Daily Magazine.
“Painting”, Re-title newsletter.
Rachel Potts, “Forward Motion: Previews”, Garageland.
“Around the Galleries: Gobs Create Romantic Themes”, Los Angeles Times.
Sara Kahlenberg, “A Painter’s Painter”, ArtSlant.
Domino Magazine.
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition.