Allie Tepper is a curator, writer, and educator specializing in contemporary art, performance, and commissioning new work. Her curatorial work and research are invested in experimental practices from the 1960s to the present, and in shaping spaces of expansive access, collaboration, and intergenerational exchange. She recently organized Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, the first retrospective of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s five-decade collaboration and friendship, presented at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College and the Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti. Previously, she was an associate curator at the Cooley. She has held curatorial positions organizing interdisciplinary 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 was also assistant director of the magazine Triple Canopy. She teaches curatorial studies and art history at the University at Albany.
Tepper is editor of the monograph Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (New York: Pacific and Cooley Gallery, Reed College, 2025), and 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, Derek Fordjour, 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