Artist Biography
Terry Allen is a painter, conceptual artist, and country singer in the outlaw country genre. He has been supported by three NEA grants and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Terry Allen recorded eight albums during the years 1979 to 2004 and collaborated with David Byrne on the soundtrack for Byrne’s movie True Stories. Allen’s music is far from traditional. A quote attributed to Allen states: “People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, ‘Which country?'”
Selected Collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.