arol Hepper, born in 1953 and raised in McLaughlin, South Dakota, earned a B.S. in 1975 from South Dakota State University. She gained national recognition with her inclusion in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 1983 exhibition New Perspectives in American Art and relocated to New York City in 1985. Her work has been exhibited at numerous institutions, including the Orlando Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, the Walter Art Center, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Her artwork is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Dannheisser Foundation, among others. Hepper has also served as a visiting lecturer at Brandeis University, Princeton University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts