Cecília Resende Santos is a Ph.D. student specializing in modern architecture and planning, with an interest in the history of modernity and development in the Americas. She received a B.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago, where her thesis examining the private-public relationships that shaped postindustrial Chicago received the department’s annual thesis prize. Her art writing has appeared at the Chicago-based publications Newcity, Sixty Inches from Center, and Plates, and since 2020 she has co-directed the spatial practice project Open Sheds Used for What?. Before entering the program in 2021, Cecília served as Curatorial Fellow at the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and held positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Graham Foundation, and Wrightwood 659 gallery.
