Allie Tepper is a curator and art historian from New York, specializing in modern and contemporary art and performance, and commissioning new work. Her interdisciplinary curatorial work and research is invested in experimental practices, international histories of collaboration and feminisms, and fostering spaces of expansive access and intergenerational exchange. Tepper is the curator of the traveling exhibition Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (2024), the first retrospective on the artists’ five-decade collaboration. Previously, she was associate curator at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College. She has curated exhibitions, public commissions, and performance programs for the Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, MoMA, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. She is also the former assistant director of the magazine and art venue Triple Canopy. As a visiting professor, she has taught art history to artists in the graduate program at SUNY Albany.
Tepper is the editor and contributing author to the forthcoming monograph Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (New York: Pacific and Cooley Gallery, 2025), and the co-editor of Side by Side: Collaborative Artistic Practices in the United States: 1960s–1980s, vol. III of the Living Collections Catalogue (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2020). She has contributed essays and conversations for exhibition catalogues and publications such as ASAP/Journal, BOMB, and Topical Cream on artists including Indira Allegra, Maren Hassinger, Lonnie Holley, Jompet Kuswidananto, Guadalupe Maravilla, Nick Mauss, Rabih Mroué, Senga Nengudi, Lotty Rosenfeld, Shahzia Sikander, Alan Sonfist, and Cecilia Vicuña. She received an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of the writing community at Louis Place.
Contact: allietep@gmail.com