About

Allie Linn is a curator, writer, artist, and arts administrator motivated by collaborative institution-building, site-responsive practices, and crowd-sourced archives. They have held positions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Recess, The Contemporary, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Facebook’s Analog Research Lab, alongside various grassroots arts organizing, including co-organizing Baltimore’s Publications and Multiples Fair and co-founding and organizing the Artist-Run Art Fair and Spiral Bound Book Fair. In 2014, alongside a cohort of six other artists, they co-founded Bb, an artist-run gallery and programming space in downtown Baltimore and a 2015 grantee of The Grit Fund, a Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Allie was recently named the 2019–20 Guest Curator of Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where they organized A Ribbon, a Pearl, a Sedimentary Rock, a group exhibition accompanied by several live programs and workshops. A Gentle Excavation, an exhibition they guest curated at Resort Gallery, was named one of the ten best Baltimore exhibitions of 2019 by BmoreArt. Their writing has been featured in the International Awards for Art Criticism and Post-Office Arts Journal. They hold a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History and an MFA in Curatorial Practice from MICA, where they have also taught as a visiting professor. Allie currently works as Initiatives Manager at United States Artists, where they oversee Shift Space, an online publication reflecting on the field of art and tech, and various grants, fellowships, and programs, in collaboration with an incredible team of co-conspirators.