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 and performance programs for the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, and MoMA. She is also the former assistant director of the magazine and arts venue Triple Canopy.
Tepper is the editor of the forthcoming volume Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (New York: Pacific and Cooley Gallery, 2024), 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 including BOMB and ASAP/Journal, on artists including Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Guadalupe Maravilla, Lotty Rosenfeld, Cecilia Vicuña, Lonnie Holley, Shahzia Sikander, Nick Mauss, Alan Sonfist, Jompet Kuswidananto, and Rabih Mroué. She received an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Contact: allietep@gmail.com