Gabriella Shypula

Contemporary Art

Leigh and Mary Carter Director’s Research Fellow 

Gabriella Shypula is 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 contemporary collection projects, 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 contributed to 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; and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2022, she cocurated Revisiting 5+1 at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, presented in partnership with the MFA Boston, and coedited the accompanying catalogue.