Rachel Vogel is a historian of modern, contemporary, and American art and assistant curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art. She received her PhD from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “Mutual Registration: Printmaking and/as Conceptual Art, 1964-1980,” analyzed the significance of print and printmaking for conceptual artists, revealing how they marshaled printmaking’s unique qualities to confront conventional notions of authorship, originality, and value. Rachel's research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Richard and Susan Smith Foundation, and Harvard University. She has adjacent research interests in theories of artistic labor, gender, and craft and applied arts, which are discussed in an article in the Oxford Art Journal on the role of craft in the Productivist textile work of Liubov PopovaRachel also has an article forthcoming in American Art (spring 2024) on the participatory prints of Douglas Huebler, drawn from a chapter of her dissertation, and her exhibition reviews have appeared in Art Journal and caa.reviews (forthcoming).

Rachel earned her MA from Harvard in 2018 and received her BA in Media Studies from Vassar College in 2013. Rachel is a passionate and committed educator; she was a public high school English teacher in Houston, TX and has taught courses at Harvard, Vassar College, and Georgetown University. She is also on the Art History faculty for the Wonderworks Pre-College Summer Program in Houston, in association with Rice University’s Department of Art History. From 2014-2016, Rachel was a member of the curatorial collaborative Suplex, which hosted a series of exhibitions and experimental programs throughout Houston, and from 2018-2022 she contributed to numerous exhibitions at the Johnson-Kulukundis Gallery at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her writing has accompanied exhibitions at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Harvard Art Museums, Flex Space (Houston), the Rice Media Gallery, Axelrad (Houston), and Art League Houston.