Gabrielle Vitollo
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Gabrielle Vitollo is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Drawing Department at Pratt Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts & Design Department at Montclair State University. Vitollo is a painter, sculptor, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY, whose practice integrates fine art, education, and environmental advocacy.
Vitollo received a German Fulbright Research Fellowship in Berlin, where the work shifted from figurative painting to abstract forms inspired by geological flow, decorative armor, and visual patterns in nature. Vitollo has also been awarded a DAAD Scholarship, the Martin Wong Scholarship, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants. Residencies include Yaddo, the Baccarat Crystal Factory, Fountainhead, and the YoungArts Olafur Eliasson Workshop, filmed by HBO.
Vitollo’s work has been exhibited at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Friedhof Museum Berlin, the Knockdown Center, 80WSE Gallery, Miami’s Margulies Collection, Kunstpunkt Berlin, and Iceland’s Listasafn Arnesinga Art Museum. Recent public sculpture commissions include Marvelous Mussels at Sperlak Sculpture Gardens and Exoskeletal Odyssey at MakerPark, both large-scale projects accompanied by programming that emphasized urban ecology education and nature journaling.
Vitollo’s teaching and research emphasize rethinking value systems within the visual arts and the potential of art to cultivate environmentally and socially conscious communities. At Pratt Institute, Vitollo equips students with a rigorous foundation in observational drawing while encouraging experimentation and critical engagement with the intersections of art, ecology, and cultural responsibility.
Education
MFA, Studio Art, NYU Steinhardt
BFA, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
Publications and Projects
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, MakerSpace NYC, Waveform Machina, Brooklyn, NY
2023, Church Street Gallery, Unrestrained, West Chester, PA
2021, GlogauAIR, Glacial Flow, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State, Harrisburg, PA
2025, The Arsenal, Queer In Nature, New York, NY
2023, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, Up All Night, New York, NY
2022, Filo Sofi Arts, Forbidden Boundaries II, Cranford, NJ
2021-2022, Fulbright Headquarters, Alumni Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2017, The Knockdown Center, Nasty Women Art Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2015, Listasafn Arnesinga Art Museum, Gullkistan, Hveragerdi, Iceland
SELECTED AWARDS
2025, YoungArts, Creative Micro-Grant, Miami, Florida, (also in 2024, 2023, and 2021)
2020 – 2021, DAAD, Research Scholarship for Fine Art, Bonn, Germany
2018 – 2019, German Fulbright Commission, Fulbright Research Grant for Painting & Printmaking, Berlin, Germany
2015-2017, New York University, Tuition Scholarship and Stipend, New York, NY
2016, Martin Wong Foundation, Martin Wong Scholarship in Painting, San Francisco, CA
2013 & 2011, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, Quebec, Canada
2011, National Italian American Foundation, Maurizio Gianturco Scholarship, Washington, DC
2008-2012, MICA, Mathias DeVito Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
2008 The National YoungArts Foundation, Level 1 Scholarship, Miami, FL
RESIDENCIES
2022, Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida, with stipend, theme: Environment & Climate Sustainability
2019, YoungArts Baccarat Crystal Summer Residency, Baccarat, France, fellowship
2018, Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, fellowship and stipend
PUBLIC ART
2025, Makerpark, outdoor public sculpture realized though Futureworks MakerSpace, Staten Island, NY
2024, Sperlak Sculpture Gardens, outdoor public sculpture invitational, Cape May, NJ
2023, Walt L. Shammel Community Garden, outdoor public sculpture installation through NYC Parks, Brooklyn, NY