About The Artist

Allegra Sleep was born in Nicaragua just as things were heating up and ready to erupt into the Revolution. She was in her first group show at the American Embassy in Managua at age two. She lived in Central, South America & the Caribbean until a move brought her to Taos, in 1990. Primarily self-taught, the artist grew up watching her mother paint. Allegra works in acrylics and watermedia, and often uses bright primary colors. Her work frequently references scenes from a childhood in Latin America; as well as old black and white family photographs. She was a Finalist in The Artist's Magazine's Annual Art Competition in 2013, and has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine twice. The artist has shown and is collected Internationally. Find her work at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, on Kit Carson Road in Taos, New Mexico. Or online on facebook at: Allegra Sleep Fine Art. Contact allegrasleep@hotmail.com Shows- Stables Gallery- Group Show, Taos, NM 1990 Bad Ass Coffee House- Group Show, Albuquerque, NM 1998 ThinkTank Studio- Group Show, Albuquerque, NM 1999 Taos Open- Taos, NM 2003 Taos Artisans Gallery- Featured Artist, Taos, NM 2004 Taos Open- Taos, NM 2005 Taos Home Grown Gallery- Group Show, Taos, NM 2005 KRZA 1st Annual Art Auction- Alamosa, CO 2006 Center for Contemporary Arts- Pushpin Show, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Taos Open- Taos, NM 2007 (Award) KRZA 2nd Annual Art Auction- Alamosa, CO 2007 Wilder Nightingale Fine Art- Small Works Show, Taos, NM 2008 Blumenschein Museum- Group Show, Taos, NM 2009-2010 Taos Select- Taos, NM 2012 Blumenschein Museum- "Under the Hill" Group Show, 2013 Taos Select- Taos, NM 2013 Park Fine Art, International Tour Show, Albuquerque, NM 2014 419 Veronese Gallery, International Tour Show, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Galerie 89, International Tour Show, Paris, 2014 Millicent Rogers Museum- Annual Miniature Show, Taos, NM 2015 Galerie AM Park-International Tour Show, Frankfurt, Germany 2016 Park Fine Art- International Tour Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2016 Taos Fall Arts Festival, Taos NM 2017 Publications- The Artist's Magazine, Annual Art Competition, Finalist for Abstract/Experimental, December 2013 Southwest Art Magazine, "Juror's Choice" article feature, January 2014 Southwest Art Magazine, "Artists of the Southwest" article feature, August 2014