Katz Tepper

2026 Bodies of Work

Visual Arts

Katz Tepper (they/them; he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Chicago. Solo exhibitions include Prairie, Chicago, IL; White Columns, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, GA; Cushionworks, SF; and Laurel Gitlen, NY. Group exhibitions and screenings include the Tang Teaching Museum, NY; Fluentum, Berlin; British Film Institute Southbank, London; and Red Bull Arts, Detroit. Fellowships and residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, MacDowell, Writer-in-Residence at Writing Space Chicago, and Artist-in-Residence with Luka Carter at DuPage College. Tepper received their BFA from Cooper Union, and their MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. With Mo Costello, their co-curatorial research on Beverly Buchanan’s work received a 2024 Teiger Foundation Single Project Grant for the 2026 exhibition Beverly’s Athens at the University of Georgia’s Athenaeum. The accompanying catalog for Beverly’s Athens, forthcoming with Institute 193, received a 2025 Graham Foundation Award. Beverly’s Athens is featured in the Georgia Review’s Winter 2025 Issue, where their curatorial essay “Medical Arts: Disabled Kinship as Methodology” is published. Costello and Tepper are currently co-editing a book, Beverly Buchanan, Athens, GA, 8 July 1995, forthcoming Spring 2026 with Soberscove Press.

Featured Artworks

There are seven art pieces in the photo, with three on the left side of the room hanging from wires, two on the right side coming out of the wall, and two in the foreground and back of the room standing on the floor.

Pharmacy Receipts, 2025 Installation view Courtesy of Prairie, Chicago

a drawing made on a photocopy. A grey, black, white, purple, and green art piece in a white frame hung on a white wall. The piece showcases various objects with splashes of green and pills of different sizes rendered in black, white, and grey.

Angel Bandaid 2 (with Icecream Imprint, Ginkgo Leaves, Ricola Wrappers, Rinvoq, Doxycycline, Fish Oil Capsules, Vitamin C Tablet, Turmeric Tablet, Vitamin D Capsule, Rubber Bands, Electric Tape), 2025 toner and colored pencil on printer paper, metal frame Courtesy of Prairie, Chicago

Detail view of a collage of black and white papers sewn onto a tshirt. Composed of photocopied calendar paper with different appointments written on the days, with some areas highlighted in yellow.

[detail] A Shared Language Shirt (me, dad, and B), 2025 cotton t-shirt, hardwood dowels, masking tape, drywall tape, packing tape, silicon caulk, thread, quilting pins, steel wire, fishing line, ziplock bags, plastic Deli bag, Post-It notes, candy wrapper, paper fragment, rubber fragment, and more. Courtesy of Prairie, Chicago

Maintenance Shirt/Erosion Shirt (RECTUM notes), 2025 cotton t-shirt, hardwood dowel, masking tape, packing tape, silicon caulk, thread, quilting pins, printer paper, toner, colored pencil, industrial wool felt, felt moving blanket, silicon rubber plumbing gaskets with silver paint marker, and more. Courtesy of Prairie, Chicago

A close up of an art piece composed of pieces of lightly colored wood put together to make an angular structure. Seven pieces of wood lay between two parallel horizontal pieces, held up by two sets of two wooden rods, one on each side.

[detail] Make-Shift Archive 2 (Ricola wrappers), 2025 hardwood dowels, cotton t-shirts, masking tape, drywall tape, silicon caulk, wood glue, thread, embroidery thread, quilting pins, steel wire, ziplock bags, wood dust, silicon rubber plumbing gaskets, fiberglass insulation, lint, sticks, and more Courtesy of Prairie, Chicago

A projector in a dark room with two white walls and a grey floor with two beanbags, one occupied by a person with long hair and heeled boots. On the blackwall opposite the camera is a projection of a picture of two notebook pages.

Roasted Cockroach for Scale, 2022 digital video with color and sound; seating Courtesy of Laurel Gitlen, NY