Anita Allyn is an interdisciplinary artist living in Philadelphia. She creates works in video, installation, digital media, and photography. Allyn is a graduate of Kansas City Art institute (B.F.A.) and the Museum School, Boston (M.F.A.). Her work has been exhibited in Moscow, Russia; Columbia, South America; Tel Aviv, Israel; Calcutta, India; New York, Massachusetts and Philadelphia.
Her work explores questions of narrativity, immediacy, memory and indexing. The works include different formal strategies including documentary, personal narrative and abstraction/looping to investigate the positioning of truth telling in a post-video age.
She works independently and collaboratively as a an artist/critical thinker; part of the Philadelphia artist collective, Vox Populi, http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/ and an active member of the board for Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic, http://www.spema.org. She is Associate Professor, Digital Arts & Photography Coordinator at The College of New Jersey.
