Gabriela Giroletti (b. 1982) is a Brazilian painter, living and working in London. In 2016, she received her MFA in Painting (distinction) from UCL, Slade School of Fine Art, where she held a position as an Honorary Research Fellow from 2019–2020. In 2015, Giroletti graduated with a BFA in Fine Art (first class) from Middlesex University, London. In 2012, she completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Middlesex University, London.
In her work, Gabriela Giroletti explores the relationship between the painted image (the meaning, the immaterial, the metaphor, the mind) and the material presence in the painting (the corporeal, the touch, the physical presence, the body). Deliberately ambiguous, the paintings fluctuate between their crude materiality and their metaphysical aspect, encouraging the viewer to formulate peculiar connections with our tangible surroundings, as well as with individual and unique lived experience.
Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Salon, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA (2026); Among Ripples and Folds, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2025); Mil Minhãs, Galerie Leme, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Inevitable Orbits, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, USA (2024); Sunsets & Rains, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France (2024); Mingling Currents, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Moon, Commonage Projects, London, UK (2023); Breezy, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2021); At Once and a Touch Away, Studio KIND, Braunton, UK (2021); Solo presentation at the Viewing Room, Thames Side Studios, London, UK (2019).
Group exhibitions include The Sunworshippers, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London (July 2026); Binder of Women, Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, Wakefield (June 2026); Que seja casa, o amor ainda que amar desabrigue, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba, Sorocaba (March 2026). The Sunworshippers, Thames Side Studio Gallery, London, UK (2026); Que seja casa, o amor ainda que amar desabrigue, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba, Sorocaba, Brazil (2025); Brink, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK (2025); Insided: An Exhibtion by Binder of Women, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK (2025); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, IL (2025); ARCOMadrid, Galeria Leme, Madrid, Spain (2025); Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2024); Across the Pond, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA (2024); The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); Folded Lines, The Black Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2024); Pacific Breeze, White Conduit Projects, London, UK (2023); Seeing Remains, Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester, UK (2023); Tic Tac Toe, Apt Gallery, London, UK (2023); BRR-ARB, curated by Ana Teles and Luis Sandes, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK (2022); Improv, APT Gallery, London, UK (2022); The Greenness of the Green Fields Supernal, duo show with Henry Tyrrell, Lewisham Art House, London, UK (2022); AORA Pop-Up, London, UK (2021); Julie’s Bob, Terrace Gallery, London, UK (2021); RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2021); Wild Grapes, Unit 3 Projects, London, UK (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Göerne, Germany (2021); Friends with Benefits, Safe House One, London, UK (2021); Spiral Drift, Terrace Gallery, London, UK – curated by Frank Minoprio (2021); The Echo System, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, UK – curated by Milda Batakyte (2021); AORA Pop-Up, Ohsh Projects, London, UK (2021); Wabi-Sabi, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2021); London Now, Space K, Gwacheon, South Korea (2020); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2020); Catamaran, Thames Side Studios Gallery, London, UK (2019); Hix Award, Hix Art Gallery, London, UK (2019); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, London, UK (2019); Tate Staff Biennale, Tate Modern, London, UK (2019); Of Course, I Haven’t Forgotten!, Artists.Space, London, UK (2019); Black Stuff, Unit 3 Projects, London, UK (2019); The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London, UK (2019); FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2019); Annual Summer Show, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK (2019); Elephant x Griffin Art Prize, Elephant West, London, UK (2018); Young Contemporaries Talent Purchase Prize, Cello Factory, London, UK (2018); Let me know before you arrive, Warbling Collective pop-up space, London, UK (2018); Marching Through the Fields, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London, UK (2018); Motel, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2018); Workshop Foundation Summer Show, Unit1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK (2018); Slade Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK (2018); Rubber-chew / Clink, adieu, Unit1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK (2018); Future Echoes, Refugees Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece (2017); Slade Interim, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2017); The Politics of Too Many Rubbish Dinner Parties, Chalton Gallery, London, UK (2017); The Tyranny of the Surface, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK (2017); FAITH, Austin Forum, London, UK (2017); BEEP Wales Painting Biennial, Swansea College of Art, Swansea, UK (2016); Undegun, Wrexham, UK (2016); FloatArt, Bargehouse, London, UK (2015); Summer Salon, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK (2015); Bells from the Deep, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK (2015); Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK (2015); Launch – Degree Show, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK (2015); Watch This Space, Beaconsfield Contemporary, London, UK (2015); Café Culture, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK (2014); Restricted Space, Cre8 Space, London, UK (2014); State, Middlesex University, London, UK (2014); Time = Change, Menier Gallery, London, UK (2014); Events Day, Middlesex University, London, UK (2014); Esperanza Recuerda, University of Granada, Spain (2013); A Place in Between, Espacio Gallery, London, UK (2013).
Highlights and Collections
In 2021 Gabriela Giroletti was a recipient of the Eaton Fund project grant and the Elephant Lab Residency. In 2020, she was a grant recipient of Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop and the Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund. In 2019, Giroletti was a Bloomberg New Contemporaries artist and was shortlisted for the Hix Award. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize and Elephant x Griffin Art Prize, and was awarded the Slade Summer School Art Education residency. She was also shortlisted for the Desiree Painting Prize, Adrian Carruthers Award, Chadwell Award (runner-up), and Sarabande Emerging Artist Fund. In 2017, she took part in the JOYA Arte y Ecologia Residency and TFAC Residency. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the BEEP Wales Painting Prize. In 2015, she received The Dean’s Prize for Academic Excellence from Middlesex University. In 2014, she took part in the Green and Brown Residency, organised by Academia di Bella Arte di Macerata. Giroletti’s work is included in public and private collections including The Jasteka Foundation Collection in the USA, Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art in Brazil, the Horizontes Collection in Brazil, Newark Museum of Art in the USA, and Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sorocaba in Brazil.