Allie Tepper is a curator, art historian, and editor specializing in contemporary art and performance, and commissioning new work. Her interdisciplinary curatorial work and research is invested in experimental practices, and shaping spaces of expansive access, collaboration, and intergenerational exchange. Tepper is curator of the traveling exhibition Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi (2024), the first retrospective on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s five-decade collaboration, currently on view at the Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti. Previously, she was a visiting associate curator at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College. She has curated exhibitions, public art, and performances 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. She has taught art history and criticism in the MFA program at SUNY Albany.
Tepper is editor of the new 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 catalogs 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 was born in Schenectady, NY and currently resides in the Berkshires, MA.
Contact: allietep@gmail.com