biography

Native Oregonian Allen Cox is a long-time Pacific Northwest contemporary painter. Cox has been showing his work nationally since 1982 and internationally since 2003.  He holds an MFA in painting from the University of Oregon, where he studied with the highly regarded Pacific Northwest abstract painter Frank Okada.  Allen Cox is represented by galleries in Portland, OR; Laguna Beach, CA; Knoxville, TN and Christchurch, New Zealand.

Cox’s work has been featured in New American Paintings: Artists of the West, the public television program Oregon Art Beat, the book 100 Artists of the West Coast, various design magazines and other visual media.  His paintings are found in numerous public and private collections throughout the US, as well as internationally.  Cox currently resides in Knoxville, Tennessee.