Cecilia Wichmann

Cecilia Wichmann is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). She is co-curator of the forthcoming 50-year career retrospective Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, co-organized with the Seattle Art Museum, and collaborator with guest curator George Ciscle on Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott, and the Elizabeth Talford Scott Community Celebration organized in partnership with MICA’s Exhibition Development Seminar and eight partner institutions across Baltimore City. Current exhibitions include Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen, co-curated with Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe, and Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett, co-curated with Dave Eassa. Cecilia has worked closely with Elle Pérez, Tschabalala Self, SHAN Wallace, Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young, Ellen Lesperance, Clifford Owens, Shinique Smith, Senga Nengudi, Ebony G. Patterson, and Stephen Towns. She recently launched the BMA Artist Interview initiative with BMA Director of Conservation Linda Owen to center artists’ voices in collection stewardship and care.

Cecilia's dissertation project is a monographic study of the work of Joyce J. Scott, engaging discourses of craft, performance, and memorial sculpture. The university awarded her the 2017-2018 Museum Fellowship and the 2017 John Dorsey Prize for Outstanding Curatorial Practice. Her 2015 master’s thesis, "Sound and Documentary in Cardiff and Miller’s Pandemonium," was featured on scalar.me. Cecilia began her museum career in Washington, DC at The Phillips Collection after earning her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art History and German with honors at the University of Toronto.