Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, England and elsewhere. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of global cultural influences converge in his multi-disciplinary practice of more than a decade since the completion of his Master of Arts degree in painting at The Royal College of Art, London in 1998 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995.
Gibson’s artwork intermingles elements of traditional Native American art with contemporary artistic references. Thus powwow regalia, 19th century parfleche containers, and drums are seamlessly merged with elements of Modernist geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration. Here there is an echo of Frank Stella and Josef Albers – canonized in our current dialogue which has little or no inclusion of Native American art which Gibson provides comparable weight and equivalence.
Gibson’s artworks are in the permanent collections of many major art museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Canada, the Nasher, the Nerman, Crystal Bridges, and the Denver Art Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah and Atlanta), the National Academy Museum in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Cornell Museum of Fine Art. The Denver Art Museum will mount a traveling mid-career survey in the Spring of 2018, to be followed by a smaller solo exhibition at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art in the fall of 2018. He has participated in Greater New York, Prospect New Orleans, the Everson Biennale, and Site Santa Fe. Gibson is a member of the faculty at Bard College and a past TED Foundation Fellow and Joan Mitchell Grant recipient. In 2023 Gibson was selected to present the United States in the 2024 Venice Biennale, the exhibition’s 60th edition.
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Contaminated Landscape
16 Jun - 12 Aug 2022 -
Jeffrey Gibson
25 Oct - 13 Dec 2015 -
Gray Would Be the Color, If I Had a Heart
21 Jun - 31 Jul 2015 -
Xigue – Xigue
2 Jul - 1 Aug 2014 -
Jeffrey Gibson
23 Feb - 23 Mar 2014 -
ON DECK
11 Jul - 23 Aug 2013 -
Jeffrey Gibson
18 Nov - 23 Dec 2012
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Jeffrey Gibson in The New York Times
July 27, 2023 -
Jeffrey Gibson in The Brooklyn Rail
June 4, 2016 -
Jeffrey Gibson in 2016 Everson Museum of Art Biennial
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Jeffrey Gibson on Atlanta NPR
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Jeffrey Gibson at Nerman Museum
March 14, 2016 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Hyperallergic
December 19, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Artist Talk
November 10, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Forbes
October 30, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Wallpaper
October 30, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Droste Effect
October 30, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Whitewall Magazine
July 18, 2015 -
Jeffrey Gibson at Denver Art Museum
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Jeffrey Gibson in The New York Times
July 14, 2013