Lara Allen
Adjunct Assistant Professor; SCPS Lecturer; Tutor
Biography
Lara Allen is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a background in performance, experimental music and visual art. She received an MFA in painting from Yale, a CELTA in English language instruction from Cambridge University, and BA from the San Francisco Art Institute where she studied with George Kuchar.
She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Humanities and Media Studies and senior staff at the Writing Tutorial Center. In 2018, she began teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Pratt’s Intensive English Program (IEP) and in 2023, she was appointed Academic Coordinator. Before joining Pratt, she taught performance at Bruce High Quality Foundation University – a free, collaborative art school in New York City.
Performance venues, exhibitions and collections include Artists Space, NYC, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Café Korb, Vienna, Austria; Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan; Bar Isshee, Tokyo, Japan; SFMOMA, CA; Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland, OH; Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia; The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Yale University, New Haven, CT; City Hall, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; and Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA; grants and awards include Manhattan Cultural Council SwingSpace, Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Abby Mural Fellowship and Embassy CES National Teaching and Learning Award.
Education
MFA Yale University School of Art, Painting & Printmaking;
CELTA University of Cambridge;
BFA San Francisco Art Institute, Interdisciplinary
Publications and Projects
Select Writing and Podcasts:
“And All Around Me Spirits: Invoking Harry Partch”
“Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age.”
“Angelic Transmissions,” Interview with Jarrett Earnest on East Village Radio
“Painters on Painting: Lara Allen on Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Die Ordnung der Engel'”
Select Press:
Inside “Gossip” New York’s Under-the-Radar Crit Group 2026
Davis, Genie. “From Trauma to Transcendence in The Naked Mind.” Riot Material , 9 Jan. 2021