Gabriella Shypula

Areas of Specialization:Global Contemporary Art; Feminist Historiography; Feminist and Queer Theory; Autobiography and Biography Studies; Exhibition Histories

Email: Gabriella.Shypula@stonybrook.edu
Web: https://www.gabriellashypula.com

Gabriella Shypula is the Leigh and Mary Carter Director’s Research Fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art and a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation examines New York–based women artists and their relationship to autobiography in the 1970s–80s. She has written on contemporary art and co-curated "Revisiting 5+1" at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, presented in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Museum of Modern Art. Shypula 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.