Rebecca Duclos’ recent curatorial projects include Depot at the University of Waterloo and Voir/Noir at the Musée d’art de Joliette. Her writing on the Pomme de parterre project was recently published in Locus Suspectus and her essay, “Reconnaissance/Méconnaissance: The Situationist International, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller”, will appear in the forthcoming book, Articulate Objects: Voicing and Listening to Sculpture and Performance. Duclos has also contributed essays and reviews to the Leicester Museum Studies series, The Future of Collecting (1999) and Exploring Science in Museums (1996) and has been the web editor for Reading Montréal and Alphabet City. She is a commissioning editor for the Alphabet City/MIT Press series and is a research associate with RENDER at the University of Waterloo.

In the decade prior to her current work as an independent writer and curator, Duclos worked with the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Design Exchange, and the Textile Museum of Canada. Since 1994, she has taught at Deakin University (AUS), the University of Manchester (UK), and Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and is currently an external reviewer for the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec, and adjunct Associate Professor in the MFA program at the Maine College of Art, USA.

Duclos has past degrees in Classical Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology (B.A. University of Toronto, 1990); Art Education (B.Ed York University, 1996); and Museology (M.A. University of Toronto, 1994). She is currently finishing her PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester (UK) on “The Topology of Objecthood and Recent Art.”