Allie Linn is an artist and arts worker from New York and Baltimore motivated by collaborative institution-building, site-responsive practices, and crowd-sourced archives. They have collectively organized various artist-run endeavors—including Bb, a storefront gallery and project space; the Publications and Multiples Fair; the Artist-Run Art Fair; and the Spiral Bound Book Fair—alongside countless collaborators, and have curated exhibitions at spaces including Resort, Cardinal, the Menial Collection, SpaceCamp, and Notre Dame of Maryland University’s Gormley Gallery, where they were the curator in residence from 2019 to 2020. BmoreArt named A Gentle Excavation at Resort one of the ten best Baltimore exhibitions of 2019.

They have held positions at Recess, The Contemporary, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Facebook’s Analog Research Lab, and United States Artists, where they oversaw various fellowship programs and launched Shift Space, an online publication reflecting on the field of art and technology that has commissioned new work and writing from over fifty artists, curators, and writers across five annual issues.

Allie’s writing has been featured in Software for Artists, The International Awards for Art Criticism, and Post-Office Arts Journal, and they have spoken on panels at NADA Miami and Artist-Run Miami. They are an avid participant in alternative pedagogical projects and have taken classes at Wendy’s Subway, School for Poetic Computation, Warman School, and Autonomous University of Political Education and participated in residencies at Mildred’s Lane, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sundae School, Friend of a Friend, and Grin City Collective. Allie holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History and an MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where they have also taught as a visiting professor.