Rachel Weiss is a writer, curator, and educator, and currently professor of arts administration and policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Weiss has published extensively on contemporary art in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. Major publications include Making Art Global: The Third Havana Biennial 1989 (Afterall Books, 2011), To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), Por América: la obra de Juan Francisco Elso (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2000, coauthor and editor), and On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias (University of Texas Press, 2009, editor).  Contributions to anthologies and journals include Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1998), Caja de Herramientas (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2013), Pabellón Cuba: 4D (B_books, 2008), Collectivism After Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Art Nexus, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Art Journal, Errata# Revista de Artes Visuales, African Arts, Third Text, Journal of Modern Craft, Papers d’Art, and Leonardo.

Major curatorial projects include Global Conceptualism 1950s-1980s: Points of Origin (Queens Museum of Art, New York: codirector with Luis Camnitzer and Jane Farver), Ante América (Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, and traveled in South, North and Central America: cocurator, with Gerardo Mosquera and Carolina Ponce de León), The Nearest Edge of the World: Art and Cuba Now (traveled throughout the United States: cocurator with Gerardo Mosquera) and Imagining Antarctica(traveled throughout the United States, and funded by the National Science Foundation).

Her extensive organizational experience includes founding and directing an arts non-profit, an active consulting practice, and service as board member and chair for a variety of cultural, educational, and civic organizations.

As the founding chair of the Arts Administration and Policy department at SAIC, and of the Interdisciplinary Area of Exhibition Studies, she has developed curriculum that focuses on the politics of culture, the history of arts organizations, curatorial theory and practice, and Latin American art. Current research interests include cultural policy, civil society, history of exhibitions, and artworks that recapture radical histories.

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