Mechtild Widrich

Mechtild Widrich is an Austrian art historian, curator, and Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Educated at University of Vienna, the Free University Berlin (M.Phil. Art History, University of Vienna) and the MIT School of Architecture (PhD History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture), Widrich taught art and architectural history at the University of Vienna, the ETH Zürich, the University of Zürich, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Eikones Summer School at University of Basel and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

After a postdoctoral curatorial position at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. (2009–10) and a junior faculty position at ETH Zurich (2011–13), she was a senior research fellow at the [https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/en/ Eikones Center for the Theory and History of the Image] at University of Basel from 2013 to 2015. In 2014, Widrich was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Vienna, and also in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she started teaching in fall 2015. Widrich has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and the University of Chicago.

Widrich has been on the Academic Advisory Board of the Jewish Museum Vienna since 2011, and was on the expert committee for the recontextualization of the monument to Karl Lueger in Vienna (2022).

Widrich lectures internationally and serves in numerous capacities on international expert committees for academic publications: she is currently member of the scientific committee of [https://journals.ap2.pt/index.php/CAP/index Cadernos de Arte Pública], Future Anterior, [http://www.iuav.it/DIPARTIMEN/IRIDE/IRIDE/PARD/RIVISTA/ENGLISH/VESPER/ Vesper. Journal for Architecture, Arts and Theory], [https://zivotumjetnosti.ipu.hr/ Život umjetnosti] and, from 2019 to 2022, served as reviews editor and board member of Art Journal. Provided by Wikipedia