Cybele holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York City, where she received the Tony Smith Award upon graduating. She received a BFA in printmaking in 2001 from California College of the Arts. Cybele has been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Ox-Bow. Her work was recently shown at the Bemis Center, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, MacArthur B Arthur and NOMA Gallery. She currently has a studio at Real Time and Space in Oakland and lives in San Francisco.