Meet Our Curatorial Consultant
Rachel Reese is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA. She is a curator, arts writer and independent publisher. Reese holds an MFA from City College New York and a BFA from the University of Georgia. Reese has held positions at Atlanta Contemporary, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia; Deitch Projects, Petzel Gallery and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York. As an arts writer, Reese was a former editor of BURNAWAY Magazine in Atlanta, and her writing and artist interviews appear in BOMB Daily, Temporary Art Review, TWELV Magazine and ART PAPERS, among others. She has taught Critical Issues art courses at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and Georgia State University in Atlanta. At Telfair Museums since 2015, she has curated numerous exhibitions. Reese also stewards a longterm modern and contemporary permanent collection reinterpretation and was a 2018 ArtFields juror, the annual competition and exhibition in Lake City, South Carolina.