About
Andrea Gyorody is the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University. At the Weisman, Gyorody has sought to connect the museum more deeply to the campus community through ambitious exhibitions, programs, and academic outreach. Since 2021, she has organized a conversation series on art and religion, initiated a multi-year collections care project, and curated several exhibitions, including the forthcoming Hildur Asgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Infinite Space, Sublime Horizons.
Gyorody previously served as the Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, where she focused on diversifying the permanent collection through acquisitions of work by emerging artists, as well as collaborating across college departments to create programs to support Oberlin’s diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion efforts. At the Allen, her exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic, co-curated with art historian Matthew Francis Rarey, received a 2020 Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. Gyorody has also held positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Getty Research Institute; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her past projects including I Like LA and LA Likes Me: Joseph Beuys at 100 for Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles (2021); the international traveling exhibition Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings (2019–2022) 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 (2018).
Gyorody’s writing has appeared in publications including Artforum; Hyperallergic; Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture; The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture; and the edited volumes Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since the 1960s (Bard, 2021) and The Art of War (Peter Lang, 2017). She was also the founding editor of Digest, the online publication of the Los Angeles-based arts organization Active Cultures, and currently writes a newsletter called Weekly Special, which investigates the relationship between art and food.
Gyorody received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles; an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art; and a BA from Amherst College.