Gabriella Shypula

Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Leigh and Mary Carter Director’s Research Fellow

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, including a retrospective of Martin Puryear (2025–26) and Emma Amos: The Gift (2027).

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 and 1980s.

Prior to the CMA, 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); and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Past exhibitions she 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, Shypula cocurated Revisiting 5+1 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, presented in partnership with the MFA Boston, and coedited the accompanying catalogue.

Gabriella Shypula is visiting Vienna on a group research trip in April 2025.

Photo: Howard Agriesti. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.