GABRIELLE BANZHAF

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Gabrielle Banzhaf is an Indigenous Peruvian and German curator and cultural preservationist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She inhabits and explores spaces where public and private life collide, embrace, and interweave. Her exhibitions and experimental projects are endeavors in collective gestures of ritual, care, and memory.



Occupation
SHED Projects / Co-founding Director + Chief Curator

Hypoallergenic Art Review / Founder + Publisher

Sehnsucht Consulting LLC / Founder + Lead Mental Health Consultant at Take Care by Gabrielle Banzhaf


DevelopmentCleveland State University / Cleveland OH
MSW Social Work
[2025]

Cleveland Institute of Art / Cleveland OH
BFA Fiber + Material Studies [2007-2010] 

Oregon College of Arts + Crafts / Portland OR 
Mobility Program [2008]  
Studied furniture making, woodworking + bookmaking 

Corcoran College of Art + Design /  Washington DC 
Photojournalism [2006-2007] 

Ursuline College / Cleveland OH 
Certificate of Arts in Public Relations + Marketing Communications [2012]


Publications
Further Into Night
by Brit Krohmer + Zack Rafuls
Text Contributor

First Edition 2025
100 Copies
68 Pages, 8.5 x 10.5 in
color photocopy
riso cover

Sehnsucht
Editor + Text Contributor
in collaboration with Jon Gott

44 Pages
5 x 7.75 in.
Tri-fold Insets
Wire-bound
Various Paperstock
Edition of 50

Risograph Print and Assembly in-house at Constance // Erik Kiesewetter [New Orleans LA]




Recognition + GrantsAwarded a 2024 Satellite Fund grant by SPACES through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to realize new site-responsive public art installations across Cuyahoga County.

Awarded a 2024 Creative Impact Fund grant by Assembly for the Arts for her curatorial and artistic practice.

Featured as a Support for Artist grantee at Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center in 2024, noted for merging art, social practice, and community engagement.



Press
Papoi, Jean‑Marie. “Culture, Art and Community Find a Home in Cleveland with SHED Projects.” Ideastream Public Media, May 9 2025.
https://www.ideastream.org/arts-culture/2025-05-09/culture-art-and-community-find-a-home-in-cleveland-with-shed-projects

Canvas CLE. “New Cleveland Art Space Aims to Connect Visual Culture, Build on History and Cultivate Relationships.” Canvas CLE. May 2024.
https://canvascle.com/new-cleveland-art-space-aims-to-connect-visual-culture-build-on-history-and-cultivate-relationships

Assembly for the Arts. “2024 Creative Impact Fund Awardees.” Assembly CLE. 2024.
https://assemblycle.org/2024-creative-impact-fund-awardees

Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center. “Gabrielle Banzhaf | 2024 Support for Artist Grantee.” Julia de Burgos. 2024.
https://juliadeburgos.org/f/gabrielle-banzhaf-%7C-2024-support-for-artist-grantee

Cool Cleveland. “Peruvian Arts Explores His Country’s Difficult History at SHED Projects.” Cool Cleveland. June 2025.
https://coolcleveland.com/2025/06/peruvian-arts-explores-his-countrys-difficult-history-at-shed-projects

Emily Farranto, “Moving SHED”, The New  Orleans Art Review, 12/2022 
www.neworleansreview.org/moving-shed/  

Andy Pham, “Nadia Mohamed: Mistakes Were Made (SHED Gallery) Review”, Antigravity Magazine, 05/2022 

Eliza Fillo, “Face of Fine Art”, New Orleans  Magazine, 05/2022 

                  









Last Updated 24.10.31