Rebecca Uchill

Rebecca Uchill is Full Time Lecturer at UMass Dartmouth. She spent the last two years as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Art, Science & Technology. She has extensive experience in publishing, museum work, event production, and academia. Uchill is editor of Art Journal Open, a publication of the College Art Association, and has held positions at Mass MoCA and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others. Recently, she was guest curator for the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, where she organized the exhibition Futurefarmers: Errata—Brief Interruptions (2017). She has produced interdisciplinary art programs in venues ranging from lecture halls to school buses to Bulgarian rooftops, particularly as co-founder of the interdisciplinary curatorial group Experience Economies. A dedicated teacher, she has served as a visiting professor at Tufts/SMFA and MIT, where she was awarded a grant to lead a graduate-level research-based excursion in the American Southwest to view potent and contested sites of land art, land use, and landscape.

Uchill has presented her scholarship internationally and across the disciplines of arts, sciences, and the humanities, most recently at the annual conferences for the Society for Social Sciences of Science and the College Art Association, and as a keynote speaker for the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is co-editor, with Caroline A. Jones and David Mather, of Experience: Culture, Cognition and the Common Sense, published by MIT Press in 2016; she has also authored exhibition catalogues and contributions to Antonis Pittas: Road to Victory (Mousse Publishing), Future Anterior, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Art Papers, Art New England, and other scholarly journals and art periodicals. Her dissertation research on curator Alexander Dorner will appear next year in an MIT Press publication organized by the RISD Museum. Her current research imperatives include the matters of landscapes and urbanisms, technologies and materialisms of contemporary art, and histories that confront the apparatuses of power that produce the canon. Uchill received her PhD from MIT, her MA from Williams College, and her BA from NYU.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology - PhD, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art in the Department of Architecture 2008 - 2015

• Williams College - Masters, Art History 2003 - 2005

• New York University - B.A., Cultural Studies/Gallatin School for Individualized Studies 1999 - 2001

• School for International Training - Art and Social Change, South Africa 1998 - 1998

• Pitzer College - Media Studies, Linguistics, Sociology 1996 - 1997

• Columbia University in the City of New York

• Phillips Academy

Companies

• Visiting Lecturer Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2018)
• Full Time Lecturer UMass Dartmouth (2017)
• Co-Founder Experience Economies (2010)
• Independent Curator everywhere (2001)
• Editor In Chief, Art Journal Open College Art Association (2017 — 2019)
• Visiting Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2018 — 2018)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Art, Science & Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015 — 2017)
• PhD Candidate MIT (2008 — 2015)
• Fellow Freie Universität Berlin (2014 — 2015)