Gabriele Schor studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of California in San Diego. She wrote her dissertation on Alberto Giacometti. She worked at the London Tate Gallery and curated an exhibition for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart on the graphic work of Barnett Newman. The exhibition later went on to the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Camden Arts Centre in London and the Albertina in Vienna. During seven years, she was art correspondent for the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung".
She taught American and European modern art and contemporary photography at the University of Graz. She followed this by teaching the theory and praxis of art criticism at the University of Vienna. Since 2004 she has headed the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, which she herself put together. Together with Abigail Solomon-Godeau she has put together the first monograph of Birgit Jürgenssen. Working together with Cindy Sherman she published the Catalogue Raisonné of the artists early works in January 2012.