Rebecca Senf is the Chief Curator at the the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. Between 2007 and 2015 she curated thirty two exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum. Senf grew up in Tucson and went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona, studying the History of Photography.  She spent ten years in Boston, Massachusetts where she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Art History at Boston University.  In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collection, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalogue.  In October of 2012 her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press.
Senf has an active role in the photographic community, frequently participating in portfolio reviews (such as Review Santa Fe, Photo Lucida, Photo NOLA, Houston FotoFest, and Medium); convening panels and presenting papers at conferences and professional meetings (such as College Art Association, the Southwest Art History Association, Society for Photographic Education, Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, and FOCUS); jurying exhibitions (including for the Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Intersection, and the Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition at Texas Woman’s University); and speaking at museums (such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Honolulu Museum of Art).