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
2023 - 2025 Curatorial Assistant of Latinx Art, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
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
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Classroom Solidarities, solo exhibition of Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Herman Maril Gallery, UMD, September 3 – October 2, 2024
Sound of Fire, VisArts, Rockville, MD, January 25 – March 12, 2023
RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix, David C. Driskell Center, UMD, January 26 – May 22, 2034 (co-curated)
Re∙Cast: Sculptural Works from the Art Museum of Americas Collection, UMD Art Gallery, UMD, September 8 – December 31, 2022 (co-curated)
Rupture/Ruptura, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS), UMD, April 1 – 31, 2021
Past Process, Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, Jan. 16 – March 13, 2021
Swell Wave, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Takoma Park, MD (canceled due to COVID-19)
Surfacing, Strathmore, Bethesda, MD, Feb. 23 – March 31, 2019
Summer Public Art Installation, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, July 19 – August 31, 2019
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
Speaker, “Seeing Sovereignty in Snow, Salt, and Mold: Ecological Material and the Colonial Condition in the work of Sofía Gallisa Muriente” Paper to be presented at Sovereignty, Art and its Histories, National Committee for History of Art, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, February 12, 2025.
Speaker, “Portraiture and Memorialization: Kent State and Ruben Salazar.” Co-lecture, Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture, PORTAL, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, September 17, 2024.
Speaker, “’The Root of “Care” is Grief’: Ecological Loss in a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation.” Paper presented at Metamorphosis – Ecstasies of Matter and Image, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 30, 2024.
Speaker, “Currency: Exchanging Artist Solidarity.” Led artist talk and workshop with artist Danielle De Jesus, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, March 21, 2024.
Speaker and participant, “Border Crossing: Island Artists Defying US Military Occupation.” Paper presented at Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop, Beyond Borders Bucerius Fellows 2023: Borders, Contestation and Conflict, Hamburg, Germany, December 1, 2023
Speaker, “Tortuous Bodies: Fukuzawa Ichiro’s Satirical View of Wartime and Postwar Japan.” Paper presented at The Global Art of War, SECAC, Richmond, VA, October 12-14, 2023.
Speaker, “Intersecting Islands: Mao Ishikawa and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Subverting the US Imperial Gaze.” Paper presented at Intersecting Photographies: Photography Network’s 2022 Symposium, Washington, DC, October 13–15, 2022.
Speaker, “Landscape as Post–Military Cinema: Picturing Dispossession and (Re)possession." Paper presented at the Beyond Borders: Visualizing Diaspora, Displacement, and Dispossession Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 1–2, 2022.
Speaker, “Picturing Liminality: Island Bodies Under and Against U.S. Imperialism." Paper presented at the Witness|Recover|Persist: Practicing Survival in Global Art History Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, February 25–26, 2022.
Speaker, “Picturing Liminality: Island Bodies Under and Against U.S. Imperialism." Paper presented at the Roger Rearick Forum, Department of Art History & Archaeology, UMD, College Park, MD, October 21, 2021.
Panel Chair, “Rupture/Ruptura: Artist Panel,” Panel chaired at Disruption: Destructive and Generative Ruptures in Latin America and the Caribbean,14th LACS Annual Student Conference, UMD, College Park, MD, April 29–20, 2021
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
Dorsey Prize for Curatorial Practice, 2024
Bucerius Start Up Scholarship Beyond Borders Bucerius Fellow, Zeit-Stiftung, 2023-2024
Smith Family Award, Department of Art History & Archeology, UMD, 2023–2025
Fleur Bresler Curator–in–Residence, VisArts, 2023
Summer Research Travel Grant, Department of Art History & Archeology, UMD, 2022
Pop–Up Research Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, UMD, 2022
Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award, UMD, 2022
Zoomed–In Teaching Award, College Park Scholars, UMD, 2021
Ethics and Labor in Art History Selected Participant, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2021
Faith Flanagan Fellowship, ArtTable DC, 2018–2019
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, UMD, Conference Programmer (2023)
LACS Graduate Collective, UMD, Secretary (2020–2022)
Graduate Art History Association, UMD, Social Chair, (2020–2022)
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Artist Talk Series Moderator (2021)
LACS, UMD Conference Programmer, (2020 – 2021)
Touchstone Foundation for the Arts, At–Large Board Member (2017 – 2021)
Rehoboth Art League, Juror for the Regional Juried Photography Exhibition (2020)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ArtTable DC
College Art Association
Photography Network
Puerto Rican Studies Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish (reading and written fluency)