Gabriella Nugent is an art historian and curator based in London, specialising in global modern and contemporary art. She is the author of Colonial Legacies: Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Leuven University Press, 2021) and Inji Efflatoun and the Mexican Muralists: Imaging Women and Work between Egypt and Mexico (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022). Her current book project, Unmade: The Politics of Difference Between Continents, explores expectations of difference in global contemporary art and the way artists subvert them through their use of materials.
Nugent was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (University of East Anglia, 2022–2025), following fellowships and awards from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2021) and Sharjah Art Foundation (2020). She holds a PhD in History of Art from University College London.
Her scholarly publications are featured in African Arts, Oxford Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, MoMA’s post: notes on art in a global context, Art Journal, Art History and ARTMargins. She regularly writes art criticism, mainly for Burlington Contemporary.