Glenna Cole Allee is an interdisciplinary artist; her work explores the shifting relationships between place, myth and memory. She holds an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, a BA from Reed College, and has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally.
Her current project Hanford Reach is an installation using sound, video and photography to interpret nuclear histories. Work from Hanford Reach has shown at Minnesota Street Project and at Root Division Gallery in San Francisco CA; at Dream Farm Commons Gallery and at Gear Box Gallery in Oakland, CA; at C3 Initiative in Portland, Oregon; and at the Maxey Museum, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. In 2020 the full installation will show for four months at Wanapum Heritage Center, Mattawa WA. Exhibits at University of Oregon Corvallis and University of Washington, Cheney: to be rescheduled due to covid-19. Hanford Reach received funding from Puffin Foundation and Puffin Foundation West in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Allee founded MicroClimate Collective, a curatorial project that produced twelve thematic exhibitions. MicroClimate Collective was a recipient of the Round V Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure in San Francisco in 2012; Alternative Exposure Grants are supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.