GABRIELLE TILLENBURG
gabrielle.tillenburg@gmail.com
EDUCATION
PhD Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities Certificate (in progress)
2022 MA Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
Thesis: Picturing Liminality: Island Bodies of Okinawa and Puerto Rico
2013 BFA Film, University of Central Florida
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-2023 Bresler Curator in Residence, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2021 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Intern, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
(September- December)
2021 Catto Curatorial Intern, Time Based Media Arts and Latino Art and History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC (June-August)
2018 - present Independent Curator, Washington, DC
2015 - 2020 Exhibitions Coordinator, Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., Bethesda, MD
2016 On-Call Digitization Technician, Picturae, Inc., Washington, D.C.
2015 Visual Arts Assistant, Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., Bethesda, MD
2014 - 2015 Video Production Coordinator, Envisiant, Inc., Great Falls, VA
2013 - 2014 Visual Arts Intern, Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., Bethesda, MD
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sound of Fire, VisArts, Rockville, MD, January 25 – March 12, 2023
2023 RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix, David C. Driskell Center, UMD, January 26 – May 22, 2034
2022 Re∙Cast: Sculptural Works from the AMA Collection, UMD Art Gallery, UMD, September 8 – December 31, 2022
2021 Rupture/Ruptura, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS), UMD, April 1 – 31, 2021
2021 Past Process, Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, Jan. 16 – March 13, 2021
2020 Swell Wave, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Takoma Park, MD, canceled due to COVID-19
2019 Surfacing, Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, Feb. 23 – March 31, 2019
2019 Summer Public Art Installation, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, July 19 – August 31, 2019
2018 Soft Serve, Willow Street Gallery, Takoma, DC, Nov. 9 – Dec. 2, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
“Interview with Artist Eric Rivera Barbeito.” Sequitur 7, no. 2 (2021).
“On and Under U.S. Occupation: Women Artists in Japan and Puerto Rico.” Artlines (Winter 2021): 8–11.
Denholm, Elizabeth, Ina Descartes, Allie Frazier, and Gabrielle Tillenburg. In Defense of Art
(Washington, DC). Zine. Single issue (2019).
PRESENTATIONS
2022 “Intersecting Islands: Mao Ishikawa and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Subverting the US Imperial Gaze,” Intersecting Photographies, Photography Network Symposium, Howard University, Washington, DC
2022 “Landscape as Post-Military Cinema: Picturing Dispossession and (Re)possession,” Beyond Borders: Visualizing Diaspora, Displacement, and Dispossession Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2022 “Picturing Liminality: Island Bodies Under and Against U.S. Imperialism,” Witness|Recover|Persist: Practicing Survival in Global Art History Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2021 “Picturing Liminality: Island Bodies Under and Against U.S. Imperialism,” Roger Rearick Forum, Department of Art History & Archaeology, UMD
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2020 - present Graduate Assistant, College Park Arts Scholars, UMD
2021 Zoomed-In Teaching Award, College Park Scholars, UMD
2021 selected participant, Ethics and Labor in Art History: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
2018 - 2019 Faith Flanagan Fellowship, ArtTable DC
2012 Competitive Student Kodak/Panavision Grant, Orlando, FL
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2020 - 2022 Secretary, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) Graduate Collective, UMD
2020 - 2022 Social Chair, Graduate Art History Association, Department of Art History and Archaeology, UMD
2021 Artist Talk Series Moderator, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
2021 Artist Panel Moderator, 14th LACS Annual Student Conference, UMD
2020 - 2021 Programmer, LACS Conference Committee, UMD
2018 - 2021 At-Large Board Member, Touchstone Foundation for the Arts, Washington, DC
2020 Juror, Rehoboth Art League Regional Juried Photography Exhibition, Rehoboth, DE
2019 Reviewer, Blitzcrit, Sparkplug Collective, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
2019 Curator, Alchemical Vessels Annual Fundraiser, Smith Center for the Healing Arts, Washington, DC
2018 Community Workshop Leader, Willow Street Gallery, Takoma, DC
2018 Reviewer, Community Portfolio Review, East Coast Artist Collective, Takoma, DC
2018 Guest Portfolio Reviewer, Professional Development Student Event, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ArtTable DC
College Art Association
Photography Network
Puerto Rican Studies Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish (reading and written fluency)