Andrea Gyorody is an independent curator, editor, and critic. From 2017-20, she served as the Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, where her exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic (2019-20), co-curated with Matthew Francis Rarey, received a 2020 Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Other recent exhibitions include Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings (2019-21), co-curated with Barry Rosen; and THE RENDERING (H X W X D =), a major commission by Barbara Bloom for the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Gyorody has previously held positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. A specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century European and American art, her writing has appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, and The Art of War (Peter Lang, 2017). She is also the founding editor of Digest, the online publication of the LA-based art-and-food organization Active Cultures. Gyorody received a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. She teaches art history and visual culture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Otis College of Art and Design, and is currently developing projects on Hannah Wilke and the decay of latex-based sculpture; resurgent modes of Surrealism in contemporary art; and the material histories of artworks born on Canal Street.