Allie Tepper is a curator, art historian, and editor from New York and currently based in the Berkshires, specializing in modern and contemporary art and performance. She is concerned with voicing transnational social movements and struggles, articulating life in motion, and fostering spaces of collaboration, expansive access, and intergenerational exchange.
Allie is currently associate curator at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College where she curated the exhibition Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (2024). She is also a consulting curator at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in Harlem. She has organized exhibitions and programs for the Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, and MoMA, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in Harlem, and is the former Assistant Director of Triple Canopy.
Allie is the editor of the forthcoming publication Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (New York: Pacific and Cooley Gallery, 2024); and the co-editor of the 2020 digital scholarly publication, Side by Side: Collaborative Artistic Practices in the United States: 1960s–1980s, the third volume of the Walker Art Center’s Living Collections Catalogue. She has contributed essays and interviews for a range of publications, on contemporary artists including Senga Nengudi, Guadalupe Maravilla, Lotty Rosenfeld, Cecilia Vicuña, Lonnie Holley, Shahzia Sikander, Nick Mauss, Alan Sonfist, Jompet Kuswidananto, Rabih Mroué, and Maren Hassinger. She received an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Contact: allietep@gmail.com