Biography for Rebecca Duclos

Prior to her current work as an independent writer, curator, and Director of the graduate program in Studio Arts at the Maine College of Art, Duclos worked for over ten years in museums and galleries in Canada and the UK. Since 1994, she has taught at Deakin University (AUS), the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). She has recently curated Voir/Noir at the Musée d’art de Joliette, As Much as Possible Given the Time and Space Allotted with David K. Ross at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and Magnify with Lauren Fensterstock at the ICA in the Maine College of Art.

Recent publications include essays in Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture and Performance, Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other’ Within, and La Clef. Duclos has also contributed essays and reviews to the Leicester Museum Studies series, The Future of Collecting (1999) and Exploring Science in Museums (1996). She has been the web editor for Reading Montréal and Alphabet City and is currently a commissioning editor for the Alphabet City/MIT Press series.

Duclos is a past fellow of the American Association of University Women, the Cultural Theory Institute and the Centre for Museology at the University of Manchester (UK), as well as a participating in the 2004 dissertation workshop at the Getty Research Institute. She currently holds a research fellowship at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in Montréal.

Duclos received her PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). She studied in Canada for her MA in Museum Studies (University of Toronto), B.Ed. in Art Education (York University), and BA in Classical Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology (University of Toronto). She currently lives in Montreal and works in Maine.

Image top right: Installation view of As Much as Possible Given the Time and Space Allotted