Gabrielle Vitollo was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Painting in 2012. In 2008, Vitollo was chosen for a workshop conducted by interdisciplinary artist Olafur Eliassion in Berlin, Germany and filmed for Simon Goodman Picture Company series Masterclass on HBO. In 2010, she assisted and worked with realist painter Odd Nerdrum in Stavern, Norway and Paris, France. More recently during the fall of 2011, she studied at the Studio Art Centers International Honors Program in Florence, Italy. In 2011, Vitollo was selected to be in a drawing exhibit, Disegno 4: Contemporary Undergraduate Drawing, which traveled from MICA to the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of South Carolina, and the Tyler School of Art. In 2011, she had a solo show in MICA Gateway Gallery. In summer 2012, she was an artist-in-residence at the ARNA Residency in Sweden and the Gullkistan Residency in Iceland.
Vitollo has received numerous awards, grants, and scholarships including the Mathias DeVito Scholarship (2008), the MICA Summer Abroad full-scholarship (2009), The Elizabeth Greenshields Grant (2013 & 2011), and the Maurizo Gianturco Scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation for academic excellence (2011). Vitollo lives and works in Manhattan, New York.