Terry Allen
decade
1940s
1943
Terry Allen is born in Wichita, Kansas.
decade
1960s
1962
Terry Allen moves to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute.
1962
Terry Allen and Allen Ruppersberg meet on the first day of school at Chouinard.
1966
Terry Allen earns his BFA from Chouinard.
1966
Terry Allen, Allen Ruppersberg, and a group of friends from Chouinard cofound Gallery 66, a cooperative gallery in Los Angeles that operates for one year.
1969
Terry Allen’s wife, Jo Harvey Allen, is one of the waitresses at Allen Ruppersberg’s project Al’s Cafe.
1969
Terry Allen sells his first record, Going to California, as a “side dish” at Al’s Cafe.
decade
1970s
1971
Photo: Gary Krueger. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
1971
Terry Allen records a live album at the opening night of Allen Ruppersberg’s Al’s Grand Hotel and spends the night in the “Al Room.”
1971
Terry Allen has a solo exhibition at the Mizuno Gallery.
1971
Terry Allen has a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
decade
1980s
1981
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
1984
Terry Allen composes the music for Lynn Hershman Leeson’s interactive video work Lorna.
1984
Terry Allen composes music for Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work Lorna.
1987
Terry Allen moves to Santa Fe.