Gabriella Shypula is a curator and the Leigh and Mary Carter Director’s Research Fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Since joining the CMA in 2024, she has contributed to forthcoming exhibitions and collection projects in contemporary art. She is also a PhD candidate in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University, specializing in global contemporary art with a particular emphasis on women and LGBTQ+ artists. Her dissertation examines New York–based women artists and their relationship to autobiography in the 1970s–80s.

Previously, Shypula was a writer and editor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, authoring women artist biographies in support of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. She has worked on curatorial and research projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA Boston); the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA); the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); the Willem de Kooning Foundation; SculptureCenter; A.I.R. Gallery; and Princeton University Art Museum. Past exhibitions Shypula has contributed to include Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture (SFMOMA, 2024–25); Frank Bowling’s Americas (MFA Boston, 2022–23); Joan Mitchell (SFMOMA, BMA, 2021–22); and Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (MoMA, 2018–19). In 2022, she co-curated Revisiting 5+1 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, presented in partnership with the MFA Boston, and co-edited the accompanying catalogue.  

Shypula has written on contemporary art and holds an MA in art history and criticism and a graduate certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Stony Brook University. Her research has been supported by the Stony Brook University Alumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship, Kusama Research and Travel Awards, and the Miriam and Maurice Goldberger Fellowship.

✉ gabriella.shypula@stonybrook.edu

Photo: Oliver Covrett