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
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.