Katz Tepper (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist engaging a poetics of porosity, transmission, and entanglement. Across video, sculpture, clothing, and performance, they investigate modes of communication - graphic signage, text, digital media - arranging tactile networks from multiple parts and processes. Their work has been supported by the Wynn Newhouse Foundation, MacDowell Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Skowhegan School of Art, and the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. They earned a BFA from the Cooper Union, an MFA from Bard College, and live and work in Chicago and Georgia.
Solo presentations include Laurel Gitlen (New York), Cushion Works (San Francisco), White Columns (New York), Atlanta Contemporary, Species (Atlanta), Dodd Galleries at UGA, Howard's Athens (Georgia), and The Hand (Brooklyn). Group shows and screenings include 'Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism's Temporal Bullying' at Red Bull Arts, Detroit, Conversations at Goucher College, Maryland, Kino at Fluentum, Berlin, and Unshielded at the Tang Teaching Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY. Their work has been featured in Mousse Magazine, Art in America, Jewish Currents, Art Papers, Art Review, Art News, TimeOut New York, ArtNet, and Burnaway.
They have also participated in a range of collaborations, including generating patient-centered knowledge with Canaries Collective, investigating remoteness through text and audio in Homebodies with Bill Deitz, and creating a site-specific clothing line for a unit at J&J's flea market with Luka Carter and Mo Costello.
At MacDowell they worked on drawings and large-scale sculptures.
