Rebecca Uchill
Professor of the Practice, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Director, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Visual Arts
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Rebecca Uchill is a curator, art historian, and educator whose work spans exhibition-making, scholarly publishing, and the study of art’s relationships to experience, environment, and public life. She is Director of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC, where she has developed research-based artist residencies, produced exhibitions and public programs, and expanded the center’s collaborations with students and faculty across the university.
Prior to joining UMBC in 2022, Uchill was Director of Community Engagement Initiatives and Lecturer at UMass Dartmouth’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and a Lecturer in the Art, Design & the Public Domain MDes program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Earlier, she held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology, and served as Visiting Curator at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and as a Curatorial Fellow at MASS MoCA.
Her curatorial projects have engaged the work of Nancy Holt, Tomashi Jackson, Tahir Hemphill, Futurefarmers, and others, and her scholarly writing has appeared in Future Anterior, Architectural Theory Review, the Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Hyperallergic, among other venues. She is co-editor of Being Material (MIT Press, 2019) and Experience: Culture, Cognition and the Common Sense (MIT Press, 2016), and served as Editor-in-Chief of Art Journal Open from 2017–2019. Her co-edited volume Local Ecologies: Artistic Investigations of Eastern Massachusetts, with Kirsten Swenson, is forthcoming from Amherst College Press in 2026.
Uchill holds a PhD in History of Architecture and Art History from MIT, an MA in History of Art from Williams College, and a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School.