Cecilia Wichmann is a PhD student working on contemporary art and theory with Dr. Joshua Shannon. Her MA thesis "Sound and Documentary in Cardiff and Miller's Pandemonium," completed in May 2015 and featured as a multimedia publication on Scalar, examines a sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller that occupied the Eastern State Penitentiary historic site in Philadelphia from 2005 to 2007.
Cecilia has served since 2015 as coordinator of the Stamp Gallery, an experimental contemporary art space located in the University of Maryland's Adele H. Stamp Student Union, where she has organized six exhibitions including Paradise Now: A Gaming Event by Kimi Hanauer and Black Maths: Adam Holofcener + Antonio McAfee. She also serves as curator and advisor of the STAMP's innovative, student-led Contemporary Art Purchasing Program.
Cecilia earned an honors bachelor’s degree in Fine Art History and German from the University of Toronto in 2007. She managed publicity and marketing for The Phillips Collection from 2007 to 2013. She has held internships at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, University of Toronto Art Centre, and with the City of Toronto for its 2007 "Nuit Blanche" contemporary art festival. She returns to the Baltimore Museum of Art for the 2017–18 academic year as a University of Maryland Museum Fellow.
