Theodora Allen is a third generation painter from Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA (2009), and is currently pursuing an MFA in painting at UCLA (2014).  Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, Green Gallery East in Milwaukee, and Marc Jancou Contemporary in New York [forthcoming]. In the summer of 2011 she was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Allen lives and works in Los Angeles.