Gabriela Trzebinski

Gabriela Trzebinski (born 1962) one of three children, her brothers are named Bruce and Tonio.

From early childhood, issues of cross culture, race and gender have concerned Trzebinski.

In 2000, Trzebinski had a solo exhibition with the Rebecca Hossack Gallery . Later that year, the Rebecca Hossack Gallery represented Trzebinski at artLondon at the Duke of York's Headquarters. Her film My Beautiful Violetta, a collaboration with London musician Sarah Sarhandi was a ten-minute digitised Super 8 film, shown at the Portobello Film Festival, London, in 2003.

A solo show, Gabriela Trzebinski:New Paintings and the "Matatu" Project, took place in 2006 at the George Adams Gallery, New York. In October 2006, she was in the group show, Run for Your Lives! at DiverseWorks, Houston, with paintings depicted in a primitive manner, for example incidents of disaster and war on television screens. The painting executed in 2006 showed the Lost Boys of Sudan looking out of an aeroplane's windows as the young refugees from Sudan arrived in the United States in 2000.

In December 2007, Trzebinski was one of five artists invited by curator & artist Michael Guidry to exhibit items they prized in the show, Little Known Facts, at the Lawndale Art Center by recreating an area of their studio. She filled the wall space with newspaper cuttings, many of which related to Africa, a monthly presentation by the museum's education program. Houston Area Exhibition of the best local Houston artists, held every four years at the Blaffer Gallery on campus at the University of Houston. Her brutal

In 2008, Trzebinski was one of the people honored at the tenth anniversary annual fundraising dinner of the Aurora Picture Show, Houston, for their support and influence.

In Disturbance of Distance, a show curated by Eleanor Williams at the art space Box 13, Houston, in February 2009, Trzebinski showed The Burning of Hides, a newly re-edited Super-8 film of a burning pyre of animal hides and game trophies.

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