Allie Tepper is a curator and art historian specializing in contemporary art and performance, and commissioning new work. Her curatorial work and research is invested in experimental practices from the 1960s–present, and in shaping spaces of expansive access, collaboration, and intergenerational exchange. Most recently, she organized the traveling exhibition, Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, the first retrospective on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s five-decade collaboration, recently presented at the Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti. Previously, she was an associate curator at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College. She has curated exhibitions, performances, and public art 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 Triple Canopy. As an educator, she lectures in curatorial studies and art history at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Tepper is editor of the 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 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, and Cecilia Vicuña. She received her M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Contact: allietep@gmail.com