Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator, historian, and cultural critic based in New York City. He is a current Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, where his research focuses on artistic responses to consumerism in the global 20th century. He is the Moving Image Lab fellow at the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley, CA. He is the author of two books: Fashion Work, published by Damiani in 2020; and Commodity Ecumene, published by bierke in 2024.
Jeppe holds an MA degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He has taught and lectured at institutions around the world such as Central Saint Martins, FIT, NYU, and University of Copenhagen on ranging topics in art criticism, fashion and curatorial theory, and art history. Jeppe’s criticism appears regularly in Frieze and Spike Art Quarterly, where he serves as contributing editor. He has contributed texts to exhibition catalogs published by institutions such as MoMA PS1, MIT List Center, The Swiss Institute New York, and MACRO Rome. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Viscose, a journal for fashion criticism and analysis. Viscose has partnered with art institutions globally in pursuit of fashion research, including Storefront for Art and Architecture and Leslie-Lohman Museum.
Jeppe has staged exhibitions in institutions and museums around the world, and conducted curatorial residencies and fellowships at MMCA Seoul, Delfina Foundation London, and ISCP New York. He most recently co-curated the 2024 public art exhibition “Future Ours” at the United Nations with Hans Ulrich Obrist. In 2021, he curated the Talks program at Frieze London. Other exhibitions include the two-part “The Endless Garment” at X Museum (Beijing), “Witch-Hunt” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and “Phantom Plane” at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.
