Roberta Allen

**Roberta Allen** ƙwararriyar mai zane ce, kuma marubuciyar almara wadda ta binciko hanyoyin da harshe ke canzawa ko kuma yake ba da haske game da hotuna. An san ta da ayyukanta na kafofin watsa labarai da yawa. Ta bayyana a cikin nune-nunen rukuni sama da ɗari a duk duniya.

## Rayuwar farko da tafiye-tafiye
An haifi Allen kuma ta girma a birnin New York na jihar New York . Tana da shekaru ashirin, ta yi tafiya ita kaɗai zuwa Turai kuma ta zauna na ɗan lokaci a Athens, Amsterdam da Berlin, sannan daga baya a Mexico . Tsawon shekaru, ta yi tafiya, sau da yawa ita kaɗai, zuwa yankin Amazon na Peru, Indonesia, Turkiyya, Masar, Mali,  da ƙasashe a Tsakiyar Amurka. Tafiye-tafiyenta sun zaburar da labaranta da yawa.

## Aikin fasaha
Allen ta shahara da ayyukanta na tunani, waɗanda suka haɗa da hotuna da rubutu, kuma sun haɗa da zane-zane, hotunan kwaikwaiyo, littattafan masu zane,  jerin hotuna/rubutu, sassaka da kayan aiki. Ayyukanta a farkon shekarun 1970 sun samo asali ne daga imanin Kierkegaard cewa mafi zurfin abubuwan da muka fuskanta suna faruwa ne ta hanyar sabani, kuma duk inda aka sami sabani, barkwanci yana nan. A cikin shekarun 1970, ta nuna tare da Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman da Carl Andre, da sauransu, a gidan adana kayan tarihi na John Weber da ke New York.

Allen ta fara aiki a matsayin mai zane a Amsterdam, inda ta yi baje kolin hotunan mutum ɗaya na farko a 1967. Bayan wasanni da dama na mutum ɗaya a New York, ta shiga John Weber Gallery a 1973 kuma ta yi baje kolin hotunan mutum ɗaya a can a 1974, 1975, 1977 da 1979.  Ta kuma yi baje kolin hotunan mutum ɗaya a shekarun 1970 a Milan, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Munich da Rome, da kuma baje kolin hotunan gidan tarihi na mutum ɗaya a MoMA PS1, LIC, NY, a 1977, 80; da Kunstforum, Städtische Galerie a Lenbachhaus, Munich, a 1981,  da kuma Perth Institute of Modern Arts, Perth, Western Australia, a 1989.

Bayan 1981 ta fi son zama a wajen duniyar fasaha, yayin da take ci gaba da yin zane-zane na ra'ayi kuma tana nuna lokaci-lokaci. A shekarar 2014, Laburaren Kiɗa da Fasaha na Athenaeum da ke La Jolla, California, sun fara yin kundin tarihin littattafan masu fasaha na shekarun 1970. An gabatar da wani baje kolin zane-zane na mutum ɗaya na shekarun 1970 a Minus Space  da ke Dumbo, Brooklyn, da kuma wani baje kolin zane-zane na zamani da littattafan masu fasaha na musamman a Athenaeum a shekarar 2016. An gabatar da wani baje kolin mutum ɗaya, *"Some Facts About Fear,"* a shekarar 2017 a Minus Space da ke Brooklyn. 

## Aikin rubutu
Allen ta wallafa, tsakanin sauran littattafai, tarin ƙananan labarai guda uku, wani labari, wani labari mai ban dariya da kuma tarihin tafiya. A cikin rubuce-rubucenta, ta yi tambaya game da yadda muke fahimtar duniya da kanmu, kuma ta yi la'akari da yadda hankalinmu ke aiki da kuma yadda muke hulɗa. Sha'awarta ga harshe ita ce gadar da ta haɗa waɗannan ayyukan fasaha daban-daban.

Ta fara rubuta almara a shekarar 1979 yayin da take yin zane-zane na ra'ayi. An buga labaranta na farko a shekarar 1980 ta Sun & Moon Press  a cikin littafin tarihin *Contemporary American Fiction,* tare da John Ashbery da Walter Abish, da sauransu. Tarin labaranta na farko shine *The Traveling Woman*, (Vehicle Editions).  Sauran littattafanta sune *The Daughter*, (Autonomedia),  *Cefanen Mutane*, ( Coffee House Press );  *Amazon Dream* ( City Lights )  *Fast Fiction*, (Story Press),  *The Playful Way to Stric Writing*,  *The Playful Way to Know Yourself*,  (duka Houghton Mifflin ) da *The Dreaming Girl* (Painted Leaf, sabon bugu na Ellipsis Press).  Tarin labaranta na baya-bayan nan shine *The Princess of Herself*, wanda Pelekinesis Press ta buga a shekarar 2017. 

Gajerun wakokinta da gajerun labaranta sun bayyana a cikin mujallu sama da 300 na adabi, ciki har da *Conjunctions*, *Guernica*, *Bomb*, *The Brooklyn Rail*, *Open City*, *The Collagist*, *Gargoyle* da kuma a cikin tarin littattafai da yawa, ciki har da *Micro Fiction (mujallar) | Micro Fiction*, wanda WW Norton ta buga a 2017.

Ta sami lambar yabo ta girmamawa ta 2015 don lambar yabo ta Gertrude Stein don Fiction. Ta kasance ɗalibi a Tennessee Williams a Fiction a Jami'ar Kudu kuma ɗalibi a Yaddo .

## Nunin mutum ɗaya da aka zaɓa

* 2017 Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
* Laburaren Kiɗa da Fasaha na Athenaeum na 2016, La Jolla, CA.
* 2014 Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
* 1989 Cibiyar Fasaha ta Zamani ta Perth, Perth, Yammacin Ostiraliya
* 1981 Galerie Walter Storms, Munich, Jamus
* 1981 Kunstforum, Stadt. Galerie im Lembachhaus, Munich, Jamus
* 1981 Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italiya
* Gidan Tarihi na PS 1 na 1980, Long Island City, NY
* Hotunan John Weber na 1979, NYC
* Hotunan Hal Bromm na 1978, NYC
* 1978 MTL Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta 1978, Kwalejin Post ta CW, Glenvale, LI., NY
* 1977 Galerie Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf, Jamus
* Hotunan John Weber na 1977, NYC
* 1977 Franklin Furnace, NYC
* Gidan Tarihi na PS 1 na 1977, Long Island City, NY
* 1975 John Weber Gallery, NYC
* 1974 John Weber Gallery, NYC
* 1974 Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italiya
* 1967 Galerie 845, Amsterdam, Netherlands

## Tallafi da zumunci

* An daɗe ana neman kyautar Gordon Burn Prize don Gimbiya ta Kanta a 2017-18
* Kyautar Mawaki ta Bishiyar Rai ta 2017
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Virginia ta 2010, Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Zama, Amherst, VA
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Virginia ta 2005, Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Zama, Amherst, VA
* 1998 Tennessee Williams Fellow a fannin Rubutu/Rubutu a Gidaje, Jami'ar Kudu, Sewanee, TN
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Virginia ta 1994, Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Zama, Amherst, VA
* 1993 Yaddo Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York
* 1989 Ƙungiyar Mawakan Zamani, Hotunan Zane-zane na Yammacin Ostiraliya, Perth, Yammacin Ostiraliya
* 1987 Yaddo Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York
* Cibiyar Fasaha ta Virginia ta 1986, Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Zama, Amherst, VA
* 1985 VCCA Residency Feliowship
* 1985 LINE (Majalisar NEA & NYS) Grant
* Ƙungiyar 'Yancin zama ta Yaddo ta 1983
* 1978-79 CAPS (Masu Fasaha Masu Kirkire-kirkire na Ayyukan Jama'a) Tallafin (Siffofin Zane)
* 1972 Ossabaw Island Project Residency Fellowship
* 1971-72 Ƙungiyar Mazaunin MacDowell

## Littattafan masu fasaha da yawa

* *Wasu Bayanai Game da Tsoro*, wanda mai zane, Rome, 1981, bugu mai iyaka
* *Duk abin da ake da shi a duniya wani ne ya san shi, amma ba wanda ya san shi ba*, Ottenhausen Verlag, Munich, 1981, bugu na 300
* *Yiwuwa*, John Weber Gallery & Parasol Press, 1977, bugu na 1000
* *Ayyukan da ba su da ma'ana*, Cibiyar tattara bayanai, NY 1977, bugu na 1000
* *Kibiya Mara Ma'ana*, wanda mai zane, 197G, bugu na 1000 ya buga
* *Layukan da Aka Kama a Raba*, Parasol Press, SA, 1975, bugu mai iyaka na 200
* *Layin Iyaka Mai Ganuwa*, Parasol Press, SA, 1975, bugu mai iyaka na 200

## Zaɓaɓɓun littattafan karatu

* Silverblatt, Michael, "Roberta Allen: Gimbiya Kanka," Bookworm, KCRW Los Angeles, CA, Maris 22, 2018, kai tsaye da kuma kan layi.
* Torri, Erika, *Roberta Allen,* Tarin Littattafan Mawaƙa, Laburaren Kiɗa da Fasaha na Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA., Mayu 2017, shafuka 64.
* Zinnser, John, "Rubuta Labarai Masu Kare Kansu: Hira da Roberta Allen," Mujallar Bomb, (Ta Intanet), 11 ga Oktoba, 2017
* Seed, John, *Rukunin Lissafi Masu Sauƙi a cikin "Zane-zanen Tunani,"* Roberta Allen (Bita), Mai Rashin Lafiyar Jiki, Nuwamba 10, 2016 akan layi.
* Catalog na nuni, *Un Museo Ideale: Tarin Bianca & Mario Bertolini*, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italiya, 2015.
* Goodrich, Melissa, (Hira ta Yanar Gizo) "Mai Salon Gashi Wanda Ya Faɗi Ƙafa Ashirin Ya Sauka A Tsaye: Hira da Roberta Allen," Blog ɗin Collagist, Dzanc Books, Janairu 22, 2014
* Vartanian, Hrag, *Mafi Kyawun 2014: Manyan Nunin Fasaha 10 na Brooklyn: #2 Roberta Allen: Yana aiki daga shekarun 1970 a Minus Space*, Hyperallergic, Disamba 23, 2014, akan layi.
* McConnell, Suzanne, “Yarinyar Mafarki,” Yanar Gizo Mai Kyau, Jirgin Kasa na Brooklyn, Fabrairu 2012
* Wynn Kramarshy / Amy Eshoo, Edita, *560 BROADWAY: Tarin Zane na New York a Wurin Aiki, 1991-2006*, Gidauniyar Bene na Biyar tare da Jami'ar Yale Press, 2008, shafi na 161, 177.
* Indiana, Gary, “Have Pain Will Travel.” Muryar Ƙauye, Littattafai, Disamba 23, 1986, 72.
* “Kalmomi a Midocean.” “An lura da shi da jin daɗi,” (Ƙarin bayani) Jaridar New York Times Book Review, 22 ga Yuni, 1986, 39.
* *Erweiteerte Fotografie/Extended Photography*, katalogin nuni a Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, 1981
* Rein, Ingrid, *Paradoxa mit Pfeil und Fisch, Die Installationen von Roberta Allen*, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Afrilu 27, 1981
* Skira Annuel, *Art Actuel*, 1979, Geneva, Bayanin mai zane, p 32
* O'Grady, Holly, Kibiyar Ban Dariya: Shigarwa da Littattafai na Roberta Allen, (labari), *Mujallar Fasaha*, Fabrairu 1979, shafi na 156,157
* Lopes Cardozo, Judith, Roberta Allen (bita) *Artforum*, Fabrairu 1978, shafi 73, 74
* Lubell, Ellen, Roberta Allen (bita) *Mujallar Arts*, Oktoba 1977, shafi 23,24
* Deitch, Jeffrey, Roberta Allen, (labari), *Mujallar Fasaha*, Yuni 1977, shafi na 6
* Auping, Michael, Kasidar baje kolin *New Work/New York* a Jami'ar Jihar California, Los Angeles, 1976.
* Lubell, Ellen, Alighiero E. Boetti/Roberta Allen (bita), *Mujallar Arts*, Afrilu 1975, shafi 19, 20
* Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, Roberta Allen (bita), *Artforum*, Mayu 1974, shafi na 69

## Tarin jama'a da aka zaɓa

* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Zamani, NYC
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan, NYC
* Gidan Tarihi na Cooper-Hewitt, NYC
* Bibliotheque du Faransa, Paris, Faransa
* Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
* Gidan Tarihin Fasaha na Worcester, Worcester, MA
* Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Jamus
* Hotunan Zane-zane na Yammacin Ostiraliya, Perth, Yammacin Ostiraliya
* Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT.
* Athenaeum, Laburaren Kiɗa da Fasaha, La Jolla, CA
* Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italiya

## Koyarwa (rubutu)
Mukaman koyarwa sun haɗa da: Shirin Rubutu, Jami'ar New School daga 1992 zuwa 2010, Makarantar Fasaha ta Jami'ar Columbia, Jami'ar Kudu, Sewanee, TN, Makarantar Zane ta Parsons, NY, Taron Marubuta na bazara, Jami'ar Hofstra, Taron Ƙungiyar Rubuce-rubuce ta Mata ta Duniya, Kwalejin Skidmore, Saratoga Springs, NY. Bitar rubuce-rubuce ta Allen ta fara ne a 1991 kuma ta ci gaba har zuwa yanzu.

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