Gabriel Chalfin-Piney (they/them) is a Chicago-based arts administrator skilled in building and orchestrating multidisciplinary public programs, residencies, and exhibitions. With fifteen years of experience working with community arts organizations and museums, their work is deeply rooted through interfacing with the public, and supporting artists in a career-changing capacity.
Gabriel is also an object maker and performer. World building, self taught spiritual and artistic practices, along with multi-sensorial collaborative performance centers much of the work they engage in.
Gabriel has held positions at the Lunder Institute for American Art - Colby Museum of Art, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater. They have organized for the Chicago Parks Department, Colby Museum of Art, The Highline Network, Greene Block + Studios, SITE Galleries and the Lunder Institute for American Art. They have performed at the Dorsky Museum, Panoply Performance Lab, Chicago Artists Coalition, High Concept Labs, Grace Exhibition Space, and Whitney Museum of Art. Gabriel holds an MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
They work as the Senior Instructional Program Manager at Urban Gateways.
They are the Founding Director of the Jewish Museum of Chicago
jewishmuseumchicago@gmail.com