Alison Owen received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005. She participated in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of Art in 2007, and recently completed a residency at foundation id11 in Delft, the Netherlands. The Rhode Island State Council for the Arts awarded Owen the New Genres fellowship in 2010. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, Bank Gallery and Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles, and Artspace in New Haven.