Gabrielle Vitollo is an artist investigating painting, sculpture, and printmaking in relation to the body, the environment, technology, and art history. Cross-pollinating between figuration and abstraction, their current paintings and sculptures translate satellite images and geological shifts. The works evidence formal paradoxes involving organic realism juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstractions — glitches challenging the status quo and the viewer’s perceptions.

They received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2012) and their MFA in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt (2017) where they studied multi-disciplinary techniques that hybridized traditional and digital media. In 2018, they relocated to Berlin, Germany on a Fulbright Research Grant for Painting & Printmaking to research the country’s decorative armor and glacial history for their paintings. Their studio practice is now based in Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn, New York.

Vitollo’s recent awards also include a DAAD Scholarship, a Martin Wong Scholarship, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants. Their work has been exhibited at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, the Friedhof Museum Berlin, the Knockdown Center, 80WSE Gallery, Miami’s Margulies Collection, Kunstpunkt Berlin, and Iceland’s Listasafn Arnesinga Art Museum. They were an artist in residence at Yaddo, Baccarat Crystal Factory, Fountainhead, and the YoungARTS Olafur Eliasson Workshop filmed by HBO. They are an adjunct drawing and painting faculty member at Montclair State University and Pratt Institute.