AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

2023

• Creative Capital Award. Creative Capital Foundation. New York, NY 

  TEXERE project recognized as part of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health & Wellbeing Initiative

• CripTech Metaverse Fellow. Leonardo: International Society for Arts, Science & Technology. Oakland, CA

2022

• United States Artists Award. United States Artists. Art Matters Foundation. Chicago, IL

• (Finalist) SECA Award. SFMOMA. San Francisco, CA

2021

• YBCA 100. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco, CA

• Gerbode Foundation Choreographer Award. San Francisco, CA

• Kenneth Rainin Foundation NEW Program Grant. San Francisco, CA

2020

• ARTFORUM. Best of 2020

• California Black Voices Project Grant. Minnesota Street Project. San Francisco, CA

2019

• Burke Prize. Museum of Arts and Design. New York, NY

• Lucas Artist Fellowship. Montalvo Arts Center. Saratoga, CA

• Eureka Fellowship. Fleishhacker Foundation. San Francisco, CA 

• (Finalist)  Eva Yaa Asantewaa Award. Queer | Art. Brooklyn, NY

2018

• Artadia Award. Artadia. Brooklyn, NY. 

• Mike Kelly Foundation Artist Project Grant. Mike Kelley Foundation. Los Angeles, CA 

• MAP Fund. MAP. New York, NY 

• Tosa Studio Award. Minnesota Street Project. San Francisco, CA 

2017

• Lava Thomas and Peter Danzig Fellowship. Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Woodside, CA 

• Womxn to Watch. KQED ARTS. San Francisco, CA 

2015

• Windgate Craft Fellowship. Center For Craft Creativity & Design. Asheville, NC 

• Oakland Individual Artist Grant. City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program. Oakland, CA 

2014

• Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. The San Francisco Foundation. San Francisco, CA 

• Creating Queer Community Grant. Queer Cultural Center. San Francisco, CA

2012

• Lambda Literary Fellowship. Lambda Literary Foundation. Los Angeles, CA 

EXHIBITIONS

2025

• 100 Years of Creative Visions. Mills College Art Museum. Oakland, CA (forthcoming)

• Freshwater Hymns / Rituals of Becoming: Performance. Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art. Harrisonburg, VA (Solo)

• Folds. Personal Space. Vallejo, CA

2024

• Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions. Kadist & Blaffer Art Museum. San Francisco, CA & Houston, TX 

• How to Carry Water. Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts. Corvallis, OR

• Finding The Words. The Weeks Gallery. Jamestown, NY

• FOG Art Fair. Fort Mason Center. San Francisco, CA 

• CRIP'D ECOLOGIES. Root Division. San Francisco, CA

• Disrupt and Resist (Part II): A love letter to the disability community on what showing up for each other can be. Gillespie Gallery of Art. Fairfax, VA

2023

• Bay Area Now 9 Triennial. YBCA.San Francisco, CA

• Plural Prototypes. Gray Area Festival. San Francisco, CA

• Within Others. Edge On The Square. San Francisco, CA

• Artists’ Books as Prompts for Discourse. Center for Book Arts. New York, NY

• Disrupt And Resist : A Love Letter To The Disability Community On What Showing Up For Each Other Can Be.  Mason Exhibitions. Arlington, VA

• Queer Threads. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. San Jose, CA

2022

• TEXERE: The Shape of Loss Is A Tapestry. Minnesota Street Project. San Francisco, CA (Solo)

• Follow The String. Marin MOCA. Novato, CA

• Indisposable: Tactics of Care and Mourning. Ford Foundation Galleries. New York, NY

2021

• Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA. Ford Foundation Galleries. New York, NY

• Desire Paths. Center for Craft and Design. Asheville, NC

2020

• Histories of Dance. Museu de Arte de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil.

• Untitled. Temple Contemporary: Temple University. Philadelphia, PA. 

• Threads Laid Bare. Anderson Gallery: Drake University. De Moines, IA

2019

• Burke Prize 2019. The Future of Craft. Museum of Arts and Design. New York, NY 

• Even Thread [has] a Speech. John Michael Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, WI 

2018

• BODYWARP. Museum of the African Diaspora. San Francisco, CA (Solo) 

• BODYWARP. The Alice Gallery. Seattle, WA (Solo) 

• Art+Practice+Ideas. Mills College Art Museum. Oakland, CA (Two Person) 

2017

• Past Presence. Pro Arts Gallery. Oakland, CA (Two Person) 

• Contemporary Threads. North Seattle College Gallery. Seattle, WA 

• Thread of Execution. Dimensions Variable. Miami, FL 

• Take Care. Weinberg/Newton Gallery. Chicago, IL 

• Crafted Strangers. Center for Craft and Design. Ashville, NC 

• Juncture. Catharine Clark Gallery. San Francisco, CA 

• Petty Biennial. The Arts Incubator. Chicago, IL 

• Pièce de RESISTance. SOMArts. San Francisco, CA 

• Occupancy. 808 Gallery. Boston, MA 

• Call for Beauty. Root Division. San Francisco, CA 

2016

• In The Mind’s Eye. Kunstratum Tapir. Berlin, Germany 

• ROT. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA 

• Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area. YBCA. San Francisco, CA 

• This is not NOT a Peep Show. The Alice Gallery. Seattle, CA 

• Watermelon Woman 3.0. OMI Gallery. Oakland, CA 

• Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival. SOMArts. San Francisco, CA 

• Collective Visions into Infinite Archives. SOMArts. San Francisco, CA 

2015

• Anniversary. Incline Gallery. San Francisco, CA 

• Glitter Bomb. SOMArts. San Francisco, CA 

• Quoting Ourselves. San Francisco State University Art Gallery. San Francisco, CA 

2014

• Stationed in Between. Aggregate Gallery. Oakland, CA 

• LGBT ART: Our Common Wealth Art Exhibition. Commonwealth Club. San Francisco, CA. 

• Body, Body, Bodies. SOMArts. San Francisco, CA 

• Shades of Impact. Worth Ryder Gallery. Berkeley, CA 

2012

• What’s Wrong with Candyland? Alter Space. San Francisco, CA 

• Yellow House Story Project. THEOFFCENTER. San Francisco, CA 

COMMISSIONED  PERFORMANCES

2025

• Freshwater Hymns / Rituals of Becoming: Performance. Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art. Harrisonburg, VA

• May the Hope of My Heart Be Woven Into the Waters II & III. Blaffer Art Museum. Houston, TX

2024

• May the Hope of My Heart Be Woven Into the Waters I. Blaffer Art Museum. Houston, TX

2020

• Watching You From A Moving Platform. SFMOMA Open Space. San Francisco, CA

• Poetry and the Senses Program Launch. UC Berkeley Arts Research Center. Berkeley, California 

2019

• Praisebreak. Counterpulse. San Francisco, CA 

• Decommissioned Spaces: What to Do When You Don't Know What To Do. John Michael Kholer Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI

2018

• Submission in Five Acts. SOMArts Performance Art Festival. San Francisco, CA 

• BODYWARP: Seamstress. The Alice Gallery. Seattle, WA 

• I’m Exhausted So My Soul Is Rested. FRESH Performance Festival. Berkeley, CA 

2017

• 50 Artists: Indira Allegra on Martin Puryear. SFMOMA. San Francisco, CA 

• Mama Says: QTPOC Lineage & Storytelling. Galería de la Raza. San Francisco, CA 

• Blacklight. Wattis Institute. San Francisco, CA 

• READ. AlterSpace. San Francisco, CA

2016

• SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. SFJAZZ Center. San Francisco, CA 

2015

• Litquake. Yerba Buena Gardens. San Francisco, CA 

• RADAR Reading Series. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco, CA 

2014

• The Political Line: 5 Artists Respond to the Keith Haring Exhibition. de Young Museum. San Francisco, CA 

• The Red and The Black: Native and African Americans, Mixing the Traditions. de Young Museum.  San Francisco, CA

• Cross Pollination Festival. The Red Poppy Art House. San Francisco, CA 

2013

• Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance. African American Arts and Culture Complex.  San Francisco, CA

• SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. SFJAZZ Center. San Francisco, CA 

• Close and Personal. The Milkbar Performance Space. Oakland, CA 

2012

• Agen(c)y. Peacock Rebellion. La Peña Cultural Center. Berkeley, CA 

FILMOGRAPHY

2015

• Weep Willow The Blues for Lady Day  2:50

2014

• Revolve 3:27

• Woven Account 3:41

2013

• Crossover 5:37

2008

• Blue Covers 4:16

SCREENINGS 

2014

• Femme Hive: Berlin Femme / Queer Feminine Konferenz. Berlin, Germany 

• Revolve 2014 LGBTQIA Oakland Pride Creative Art and Film Fest. Oakland, CA 

2013

• Exploding Lineage! Queer of Color Histories in Experimental Media. Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington, IN 

• SFJazz Poetry Festival. San Francisco, CA 

2012

• MIX NYC: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. Brooklyn, CA 

2011

• Visible Verse. Vancouver, BC 

• Utopia. Toulouse, France 

2010

• Some Prefer Cake: Bologna Lesbian Film Festival. Bologna, Italy 

• Spokane’s GLBT Film Festival. Spokane, WA 

• Perlen Hannover LGBT Festival. Hannover, Germany 

• Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Fest. Tampa, FL 

• North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Durham, NC 

• Femme Conference: No Restrictions. Oakland, CA 

• Fairy Tales Film Festival. Calgary, Alberta 

• Boston LGBT Film Festival. Boston, MA 

2009

• Fusion 2009: 7th Annual Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA 

COLLECTIONS

Open Casket IX

•    KADIST, San Francisco, CA

Blue Covers, Revolve, Woven Account

•    Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, Canada

Blackout 2017 (Monograph with Sming Sming Books)

• National Gallery of Art Library, Washington DC

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY

• School of The Art Institute of Chicago, John M Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL

• University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library, Richmond, VA

• ArtCenter College of Design Library, Pasadena, CA

• Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

• UC Berkeley, Department of Art Practice Library, Berkeley, CA

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, Urbana, IL

• Ringling College of Art and Design Library, Sarasota, FL

• Clark Art Institute, Clark Art Library, Williamstown, MA

• Walker Art Center Library, Minneapolis, MN

• California College of the Arts Library, San Francisco, CA

• Asia Art Archive in America Library, Brooklyn, NY

• Ohio University Alden Library, Athens, OH

PUBLICATIONS

2025

• "Memento Mori". Material Intelligence: Hair Vol 14. Chipstone Foundation. Milwaukee, WI (forthcoming)

2024

• Tension Studies. Sming Sming Books. San Francisco, CA

•  Dispersal of a Feeling is Another Subject. Sming Sming Books. San Francisco, CA 

• "A Missive". Material Intelligence: Paper Vol 9. Chipstone Foundation. Milwaukee, WI 

• “How Can It Not Know What It Is?: Remembering Disability As Part of the Whole” by Indira Allegra & Allison Leigh Leonardo Vol 56 No 6. MIT Press.

2022

• "TEXERE: The Shape of Loss is A Tapestry". Minneapolis: PANORAMA: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.

• "Take This Cord: A Sermon on Handfasting". Durham: Theater: Yale's Journal of Criticism, Play & Reportage. Duke University Press. 

• "Documenting Disability". Providence: Manual: A Journal About Art and Its Making. Issue 17. 

• “Palpitations'' For Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. New York: Artists Space.

2021

• “Unspooling die Gramgewinde: Writing with Gunta Stölzl on Grief-threads and Grief-portals”. London: Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture.

• "A Letter from Penelope." Minneapolis: American Craft Magazine. 

• "After My Death/A Mutable Decision". Minneapolis. Stillpoint Magazine. 

2020

• "Open Casket Series".  San Francisco: LOGIC Magazine.

2018

• “The Pull of Unseen Forces: Stages of BODYWARP”. Philadelphia: Art Journal. 

• “Praxis Texere” (excerpt). San Francisco: Foglifter Magazine.

2017

• Blackout  (Monograph). San Jose: Sming Sming Books. 

2015

• “Protect You” (artwork), “One Land One People” (artwork). Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices. Ed. Amir Rabiyah and Helen Klonaris. Chapel Hill: Trans-Genre Press. 

• “The 16th Letter”. Cream City Review. Ed. Ching-In Chen. Milwaukee. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

2014

• “Survival Season”. Dear Sister. Ed. Lisa Factora-Borchers. Oakland: AK Press. 

2013

• “Waterborne”, “Plum Cotton”. Mission at 10th. Ed. Jessica Jordon. San Francisco: California Institute of Integral Studies. 

2009

• “Light In My Pocket”. make/shift Magazine. 2009. Eds. Jessica Hoffman and Daria Yudacufski. 

2008

• “Seasonal Affective Disorder” "Anointed". Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry. 2.2 Ed. Michael Northern.

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS 

2025

• "HAIR Symposium." Center for Design and Material Culture. University of Wisconsin Madison. Madison, WI 

• "May The Hope of My Heart be Woven Into the Waters." Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Visiting Artist. University of Houston. Houston, TX

2023

• "A New Kind of Memorial: Grief Hygiene in the 21st Century." Plural Prototypes: Gray Area Festival. San Francisco, CA 

2022

• Visiting Artist Series. Contemporary Practices Department. SAIC. Chicago, IL

• "Weaving Care: A Panel on Disability and Craft" A conversation with Artists Indira Allegra, Francisco Eraso and Raisa Kabir. Ford Foundation Gallery. New York, NY

•  "I will Hold You Like a Thread" A Conversation on Craft hosted by Indira Allegra. Rainmaker Craft Initiative. Portland, OR

• “To Turn The World Around”: For Audre Lorde and Pat Parker. A reading and discussion with Indira  Allegra & Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Poetry Foundation. Chicago, IL

2021

• "Learning to Make Ourselves" Keynote Commencement Address for National Gathering. Textile Society of America.  Baltimore, MD

• "Grammar of Grief: A Conversation with Indira Allegra & Erin Christovale". Montalvo Art Center   

• Scratchspace. Saratoga, CA "American Craft Forum: Indira Allegra & Shanai Matteson". American Craft Council. Minneapolis, MN.

• "A Conversation on Kay Sekimachi”. Berkeley Art Museum. Berkeley, CA

• "Warping the Future." Columbia University. New York, NY

2020

• “Equity in the Art World”. UNTITLED Art Fair. San Francisco, CA

• "MAD Moments on Memorial". Museum of Arts and Design. New York, NY

• "A Room with A View: In-Screen with Indira Allegra &  Mariana Valencia". BOMB MAGAZINE. New York, NY

• "Critical Dialogue Series". Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Philadelphia, PA

• "McKinney Visiting Artist Series". Eskenazi School of Art and Architecture. Bloomington, IN

• "Threads Laid Bare". Drake University. Des Moines, IA

• "Indira Allegra & Dario Robleto". Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

• "Visiting Artist Series". The New School: Parsons School of Art. New York, NY

2019

• “Tessellated Faces”. Performance Studies International. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta 

2018

• “Light Bodies and Negative Spaces”. Rauschenberg Symposium. SFMOMA. San Francisco, CA 

• “Intervention: Tension as Creative Material”. Visiting Artist Series. UW Bothell. Seattle, WA 

• “she/keeps/it/moving: Performing Text/ile Corporalities”. Hedreen Gallery. Seattle, WA 

2017

• “Aufenthaltsgestatung: Asylum Seeking”. Berlin In(Flux). San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA 

• “Interlaced Images: Text/ile Performance”. Sacramento State University. Sacramento, CA 

• “Praxis Texere”. San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA 

2015

• “Weaving Community: Transforming Trauma with Textile Art. Indira Allegra and Sailor Holliday”. Allied Media Conference. Detroit, MI 

• “Unsettling Colonialism: Imagining Emancipatory Poetries. Indira Allegra and Marianne Kongerslev in Conversation”. Queer Cultural Center, Emerging Scholars Program. San Francisco, CA 

2014

• Tag Lecturer. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC 

• “Woven Account”. Women of Color Speaker Series. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR

INTERVIEWS

2025

• Tepper, Allie. "Tributary Ministries" Topical Cream Magazine.

2022

• Mina, Ana. "Finding a New Constellation in Our Grief, with Indira Allegra" Five and Nine Podcast. 

2020

• Aguilar, Elana. “Episode 18: Art, Memory and Healing with Indira Allegra”. Bright Morning Podcast

• Kost, Ryan. “In this time of loss and change, a Bay Area artist shows us how to memorialize the moments that matter”. San Francisco Chronicle

• Wright, Danielle. "Conversations: Indira Allegra + Danielle Wright”. New Life Quarterly vol. 6

2018

• Vansyngehl, Margo. "Indira Allegra on the Memory of Objects and Looms as Writing Devices”. City Arts Magazine. 

• Whitehead, Anne Martine. “Indira Allegra’s Grieving Technologies”. Art Practical. 

2017

• Donegan, Jeanne. “Artist Interview: Indira Allegra”. Weinberg/Newton Gallery Blog. 

• The Ibeji Lounge. "Indira Allegra on ‘Aufenthaltsgestattung’, Black Sabbatical and Transnational Polyamory”. KPOO Radio. 

• Spon, Nathan. “Empathy, Animism & Hexing the Patriarchy: A Conversation with Indira Allegra”. Blog. 

2016

• YBCA. "Indira Allegra on ‘Blackout’, Grief and Activism. Take This Hammer Exhibition”. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

• Wazwaz, Maysoun & Kate Rhoades. “Sanctuary: A Chat with Artist Indira Allegra”. Congratulations Pine Tree. Podcast 

BIBLIOGRAPHY & REVIEWS 

2024

• Gallow, Lauren and Gretchen Andrew. "Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to promote inclusivity". The Art Newspaper.

• Piejko, Jennifer. "Fog Design + Art | Dispatches from the Bay Area Fair".  Flaunt.

• Terouinard,  Zoé. “L’œuvre du jour : « TEXERE » d’Indira Allegra”. Fisheye Immersive.

2023

• Droitcoir, Brett. "Metaverse As Dark Forest". OUTLAND.

2022

• Cooley, Jessica A. and Ann M. Fox. "Becoming Indisposable: Curating Disability in a Time of Pandemic." In Curating Access : Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.) Chapter 2.

• Stigler, Britt. "Contemplating 'Tactics for Care And Mourning' at the Ford Foundation Gallery". All Arts. 

2021

• Hemmings, Jessica, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, and Marianne Fairbanks. “‘A Dialogue about Social Weaving: The Weaving Kiosk and Weaving Lab.’” TEXTILE, 2021, 223–36. 

• Kongerslev, Marianne. "Mapping and resisting precarity in Indira Allegra's Woven Account." In Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, edited by Emily J. Hogg, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021), 106-123.

• Thapalyal, Ranjana. “The Shoes at My Door.” Jumbies Catalog. Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. 2021.

• Williams, Tamir. "Materializing Tension: The Laborious, Woven Documentation of a Black, Queer, Crip Bodymind  in Indira Allegra’s Documented Disability," Baltimore: College Language Association Journal. 

2020     

• Cooke, Lynn. "Best of 2020" ARTFORUM.

2019     

• Stratton, Shannon R. "Even Thread [Has] a Speech" in Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe edited by Karen Patterson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.) 254-271. https://doi-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/10.7208/9780226680699

• Tumbas, Jasmina, Corina Apostol, Tanya Loughead, Joshua Lam, Elena Gorfinkel, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Marc  Siegel, Shannon Woodcock, and Alyssa Erin Schwendener. “ArtLeaks Gazette #5: Patriarchy Over & Out. Discourse Made Manifest.” ArtLeaks Gazette 5 (2019): 158.

2018

• Albernaz, Joseph. “Speculum of the Other Cene: Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities & Social Sciences , 2018.  doi:10.1215/10418385-4383037.

2017

• Dorrance, Jess. "Indira Allegra’s ‘Blackout’: The Warp of White Supremacy, The Weft of Black Grief”. Medium. 

• Tagle, Thea Quiray. “Teaching and Talking about Art and Performance in Unprecedented Times”. Art Practical. 

2016

• Levy-King, Nia. Ed. Elena Rose “Indira Allegra”. Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol 2. 

• Clugage, Sara. “Fueling the Fires of Craft and Creativity”. Surface Design Magazine.