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ALLISON WARD
Tulsa, OK
918.408.8116
allisonwardarts@gmail.com
ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
● University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma
bachelor’s in applied technology, emphasis in voice performance and music business
● The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Associates Degree
● The American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York
CURATION
2024 “Light and Shadow”, Mayfest, Tulsa, OK
2024 “Momentum”,Co-curate with Lindsay Aveilhe, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, OKC, OK
2023 “Is Everything Okay?”, Positive Space Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2023 Illuminate Arts Festival, Tulsa, OK
2023 ART HOUSE SHOW X, Tulsa, OK
2022 Festival De Frida, Tulsa, OK
2022 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Tom Harris”, Tulsa, OK
2022 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Petra Baye”, Tulsa, OK
2022 ART HOUSE SHOW VI, Oklahoma City, OK
2022 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Zach Frazier”, Tulsa, OK
2022 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Ghazal Ghazi”, Tulsa, OK
2022 “Technology in Art”, OKno1 and Lost in America gallery, Tulsa, OK
2022 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Steve Blesch”, Tulsa, OK
2021 ART HOUSE/CLEAN HANDS PRESENTS “Vnice and Troy Schrismer”, Tulsa, OK
2021 “SEEING RED” by ART HOUSE, Tulsa, OK
2021 ART HOUSE @ CLEAN HANDS, Tulsa, OK
2021 ART HOSUE SHOW V, Tulsa, OK
2021 Generation Q, Oklahomans for Equality, Tulsa, OK
2021 ART HOUSE SHOW IV, Tulsa, OK
2020 ART HOUSE SHOW III, Tulsa, OK
2020 ART HOUSE SHOW II, Tulsa, OK
2019 ART HOUSE SHOW, Tulsa, OK
VISUAL ART
2024 Mayfest, Tulsa, OK
2024 Art In Bloom, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
2023 Spark Summit, Group Exhibition, Atlas Software Institute
2023 “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”, Solo Exhibition, Positive Space Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2023 Art In Bloom, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
2022 Festival Americas, Featured Installation Artist, Tulsa, OK
2022 Dreamland Festival, duo exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2022 Don’t Tell Dad, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2022 Art House Show VII, Oklahoma City, OK
2022 “Technology in Art”, OKno1 and Lost in America Gallery, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2021 Art House @ Clean Hands, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2020 “My Left, You’re Right”, Liggett Studios, duo exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2019 “Oh, Tulsa”, Living Arts of Tulsa, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2019 Art House Show, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
2018 MidSouth DIY Fest, group exhibition, Tulsa, OK
RESIDENCIES,AWARDS, & LEADERSHIP
2024 Tulsa Art Studio Tours, Program Management Consultant, Tulsa, OK
2024 “Ask Workshop:Exhibition Ready”, Workshop Leader, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
2024 Momentum Emerging Curator, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
2022 Tulsa Community College Resident Artists, Fall Semester 2022, Tulsa, OK
FEATURE PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2024 The Capsule Garden Vol 3.16: July 24, 2024 by Brad Rose
2024 Deep Conversations Podcast, “Allison Ward And Rogelio Esparza Cervantes, The Founders Of Art House Tulsa”
2024 Propelling Art Forward With Momentum, The Oklahoma Today Podcast
2023 A Soft Revolution byJenny Wu, Review of “Is Everything Okay?” for Root Tulsa
2023 Art Focus Magazine, Cover feature and article “COME AS YOU ARE // ALLISON WARD’S HAPPY BIRTHDAY AT POSITIVE SPACE”
2023 Aslut Magazine, “Opening Night: Happy Birthday, by Monica McCafferty”
2021 Aslut Magazine, Visual art featured in Pride month issue
2021 Root Tulsa, “CommunityBuilder: Art House Show”
2020 Now This News (with U.S. Cellular). “These Artists Started Backyard Pop-Up Art Shows To Connect Their Community”
2020 Tulsa Talks: A TulsaPeople Podcast
2020 Tulsa People, Q&A: artist Allison Ward interviewed by Kyra Bruce
2019 Tulsa People, “Drugged, Fighting for a safer music scene”
2019 50 Third and 3rd, Local Track Spotlight: Tom Boil: Pterodactyl
2019 Tome to the Weather Machine, TOM BOIL - "THAGOMIZER"
2019 Razorcake Magazine,” TOM BOIL: Everything’s Fine and That’s the Problem: CS”
2018 People to Wave to, Tom Boil mini documentary
2018 Tulsa People, “‘You’re a part of the problem’ Tulsa's new post-punk band Tom Boil is here to make you uncomfortable”
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2024 Group Show, The S.P.O.T., Orlando, FL
2024 REVISCERATION, Noisetown, Tulsa, OK
2024 Oklahoma Fashion Alliance After Party, Center of the Universe, Tulsa, OK
2024 C-BEAT Community Art and Resource Festival, Tulsa, OK
2024 Dissociation IV, Point A Gallery, OKC, OK
2022 Hyperventilate, Kite, Okno1., Opening of “No Exit” by Belle Rose, Tulsa, OK
2022 Hyperventilate, The Church Studio, Tulsa, OK
2021 Hyperventilate, Scatter Girls, Charlotte Bumgarner, Oklahomans for Equality, Tulsa, OK*
2020 Tom Boil, Blurt, IMGONNA DIE, Sutphin, Ramp Hole, Tulsa, OK*
2020 Tom Boil, Garden snake, CONDEM, Oakland House, Fayetteville, AR
2019 Tom Boil, The Phlegm’s, Head cold, Garden snakes, Backspace, Fayetteville, AR
2019 Oginalii, Tom Boil, Strothers, The Starlite, Tulsa, OK
2019 Tom Boil, End Timers, Birth Order, Daniels, Mass Movement Community Arts, Tulsa, OK*
2019 Bethlehem Steel, Tom Boil, Soundpony, Tulsa, OK*
2019 Tom Boil, The Cavves, Mass Movement Community Arts, Tulsa, OK
2019 Pleasures Toxic Beach Tour Ft. Tom Boil, Whittier Bar, Tulsa, OK
2019 Tom Boil x Plastic Psalms Southern Tour*
WHITCHITA, KS - OASIS
LINCOLN, NB - ZOO BAR
FARGO, ND - THE AQUARIUM
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - HOUSE SHOW
MADISON, WI - MICKEY’S TAVERN
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - STATE STREET PUB
YOUNGSTOWN, OH - WESTSIDE BOWL
AKRON, OH - ANNABELLE’S
BLOOMINGTON, IL - NIGHTSHOP
2019 Big Business, Tom Boil, Sun Vow, Plastic Psalms, The Vanguard, Tulsa, OK
2019 Savage Republic, Giants Chair, Tom Boil, Secret show, Kansas City, MO
2019 Desiring Dead Flesh, Tom Boil, Dregs, Whitty Books, Tulsa, OK*
2019 Leggy, Tom Boil, Tiny Amazing Camera, Soundpony, Tulsa, OK
2019 Nerve Beats (HI), Tom Boil, Plastic Psalms, Whitty Books, Tulsa, OK
2019 Tom Boil, Calyx, Whitty Books, Tulsa, OK*
2019 Gouge Away, Tom Boil, 89th Street, OKC, OK
2018 Tom Boil x Plastic Psalms Midwestern Tour*
FT WORTH, TX - MAIN AT SOUTHSIDE
AUSTIN, TX - WHIP IN
SAN ANTONIO, TX - HOUSE SHOW
LAREDO, TX - BOOGALOO THE ROOMS
BATON ROUGE, LA - SOUTHSIDE
NEW ORLEANS, LA - BANKS STREET BAR
MEMPHIS, TN - THE HI TONE CAFE
BOWLING GREEN, KY - TIDBALL’S
MURRAY, KY - TERRAPIN STATION
FAYETTEVILLE, AR - BACK SPACE
*indicate shows Allison personally booked and promoted.
MUSIC RELEASES
2024 “DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN BODY”, Self released
2024 “dissociation recordings compilation volume 1”, Dissociation Recordings, OKC, OK
2023 “STABBING THE EARTH”, Self released
2021 Hyperventilate “Disengagement”, self-released, Tulsa, OK
2020 “POWERSNATCH”by Tom Boil, featured on “COMP 2020”, Tape Dad, Fayetteville, AR
2020 “Meat Grinder” by Tom Boil, featured on “Vibrations from Tulsa”, Horton Records, Tulsa, OK
2019 Tom Boil, self-titled album, released by Tape Dad, Fayetteville, AR
2018 Tom Boil “Everything’s fine and that’s the problem”, released by Cult Love Tapes, Tulsa, OK
2018 Tom Boil “Everything’s fine and that’s the problem”, released by Crass Lips Records, Miami, FL