DDA Guest Lecture Series Spring 2025: Rachel Vera-Steinberg

Rachel Vera Steinberg is the Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, a nonprofit arts organization located in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Her work focuses on science fiction as well as political, historical, and cultural distinctions between facts and fictions. She is committed to the presentation of time-based media and examining the roles of alternative art spaces and artistic agency.

Her research on science fiction as an exhibition-making modality culminated in the group exhibition “A faint Hum” at the Hessel Museum at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, where she completed her master’s degree.

She was the 2019-2020 fellow at the Curatorial & Research Residency Program at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany, where she curated the exhibition JSC ON VIEW: MYTHOLOGISTS (2021).

She was the Director of SOHO20 Artists Inc from 2015-2018 and the Assistant Director of NURTUREart Non-Profit Inc from 2010-2015 where she founded exhibition and event-based programs promoting time-based media and gender equity.

She is the co-founder of Custom Program (2017-2019), a micro-gallery in Brooklyn focusing on humor, irreverence, and site-specificity. As an independent curator, she has curated exhibitions locally.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Non Pratt affiliated guests: RSVP clicking on ‘Register’