ANDREA GYORODY is a curator, writer, and cultural strategist whose work explores abstraction, politics, religion, and cultural memory in modern and contemporary art. Across academic museums, contemporary art institutions, and independent projects, she has developed exhibitions and public programs that foreground presentness, close looking, and transformative dialogue.
From 2021 to 2025, she served as director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, where she shaped a curatorial program rooted in accessibility and rigorous public conversation. During her tenure, she implemented the museum’s first digital gallery guide and secured a $2.49 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to support a five-year project examining rites of passage and religious identity. At the Weisman, she curated Hold My Hand in Yours (2025) and solo exhibitions of Jeni Spota C., Cameron Harvey, Karl Haendel (co-organized with the Kimball Art Center), Makoto Fujimura, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, and Isabel Yellin.
Previously, Gyorody served as the Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, where she collaborated across departments to support institutional equity and inclusion initiatives. Her exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic (2019–20), co-curated with Matthew Francis Rarey, received an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Curatorial Excellence. She has also held curatorial positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Major projects include Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature (2024–25, The Broad, co-curated with Sarah Loyer); the international traveling exhibition Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings (2019–22, 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 is a frequent contributor to Artforum, and her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Gastronomica, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and numerous exhibition catalogues and edited volumes. She received her PhD in Art History from UCLA, an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and a BA from Amherst College.