Jeffrey Gibson

Biography

Born

Colorado Springs CO, 1972

Education

BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1995
MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 1998
Honorary Doctorate, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA, 2016
Honorary Doctorate, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM, 2023

Solo Exhibitions

2025

The Met Fifth Avenue, 'The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson', New York NY

The Broad, 'Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me', Los Angeles CA 

2024

MASS MoCA, ‘Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT’, North Adams MA

The Greenway, 'Jeffrey Gibson: your spirit whispering in my ear', North Adams MA
U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, ‘Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me’, Venice, Italy
Sainsbury Centre, ‘Jeffrey Gibson: No simple word for time’, Norwich, UK
Stephen Friedman Gallery, ‘Jeffrey Gibson: DREAMING OF HOW IT’S MEANT TO BE’, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2025

McNay Art Museum, 'Sport and Spectator', San Antonio TX
ICA Boston, 'An Indigenous Present', Boston MA
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Woven Histories: Modernist Abstraction and Woven Forms’, New York NY (Traveling Exhibition)

2024

Norton Museum of Art, 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing', West Palm Beach FL
Aspen Art Museum, ‘In the House of the Trembling Eye’, Aspen CO
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., ‘Healing’, New York NY
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, ‘I’m a thousand different people—Every one is real’, New York NY
Pulitzer Art Foundation, ‘On Earth’, St. Louis MO
North Carolina Museum of Art, ‘To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in American Indian Art’, Raleigh NC
Harvard Art Museums, ‘Future Minded: New Works in the Collection’, Cambridge MA
North Carolina Museum of Art, ‘From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South’, Raleigh NC
Barbican Art Gallery, ‘Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art’, London, UK
Columbia Museum of Art, ‘Un(Settled): The Landscape in American Art’, Columbia SC (Traveling Exhibition)
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Un(Settled): The Landscape in American Art’, Montgomery AL (Traveling Exhibition)
National Gallery, ‘Woven Histories: Modernist Abstraction and Woven Forms’, Ottawa, Canada (Traveling Exhibition)
National Gallery of Art, ‘Woven Histories: Modernist Abstraction and Woven Forms’, Washington DC (Traveling Exhibition)

Awards & Grants

2024

Apollo Magazine, Artist of the Year, London, UK

2019

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Public & Special Projects

2016

Wellesley College, ‘Transforming Light’ [Houghton Chapel stained glass window commission], Wellesley MA

Lectures & Talks

2019

Blanton Museum of Art, Artist Conversation for ‘Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day’, with Tracy L. Adler and Veronica Roberts, Austin TX
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist Talk: Jeffrey Gibson, for ‘Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer’, Madison WI
University of Houston School of Art, Artist Lecture: Jeffrey Gibson, Houston TX

2017

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mitchell Series Visiting Artists Program, Chicago, IL, October 11, 2017
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Conference: Inspiring Social Change, New York NY
Whitney Museum of Art, Beyond Jimmy Durham: Contemporary Native American Art and Identity, New York NY

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Ash-Milby, Kathleen, Grachos, Louis, Winograd, Abigail (et al.), 'Jeffrey Gibson: The space in which to place me' [La Biennale di Venezia, 60], Washington DC: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 'Jeffrey Gibson: Ancestral Superbloom', New York: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)

Selected Publications

2024

Winograd, Abigail, Sterrett, Jill (eds.), 'Art in Pursuit of Common Cause', Chicago: The Toward Common Cause Legacy Project in association with The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, The University of Chicago, 2024, pp. 33, 163, 201, ill. (exh. cat.)
Hunegs, Simon (ed.), 'Vitamin TXT: Words in Contemporary Art', New York: Phaidon, 2024, ill.

Cochran, Sara, Fischl, Eric, Lipsyte, Robert (et al.), 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing', New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2024, pp. 75, 166, 169-170, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Bassi, George D., Miller-Zohn, Kristen, 'A Century of Collecting: American and European Paintings, Prints, and Sculpture at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art', Laurel: Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 2023
Cooke, Lynne (ed.), 'Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023

Press

2025

Cardone, Maurita, 'La rivolta di Jeffrey Gibson nel nome dei nativi americani', on: ilgiornaledellarte.com, 28 April 2025, ill.

Melchiorri, Gaspare, 'Jeffrey Gibson: Le storie che ho raccontato ritornano a casa', on: ilgiornaledellarte.com, 11 March 2025, ill.

Finkel, Jori, 'Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale show heads to the Broad in Los Angeles', on: theartnewspaper.com, 12 February 2025, ill.

Boucher, Brian, 'Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Heads to L.A.’s Broad Museum', on: news.artnet.com, 13 February 2025, ill.

2024

___, 'The Most Influential Artists of 2024', on: artsy.net, 19 December 2024, ill.
Osman Can Yerebakan, 'U.S. Pavilion Artist Jeffrey Gibson on Venice and Amplifying Indigenous Voices', on: news.artnet.com, 30 December 2024, ill.

___, 'Monopol Top 100', in: Monopol, Berlin, November 2024, pp. 44-80, ill.
Berlinger, Max, 'Anna Weyant, Jeffrey Gibson, and 9 Other Art Stars Have Reimagined Dior’s Iconic Bag', on: news.artnet.com, 27 November 2024
Behrens, Edward, 'Artist of the Year: Jeffrey Gibson', on: apollo-magazine.com, 21 November 2024, ill.

Stanmeyer, Anastasia, 'Power Full Because We’re Different', on: berkshiremag.com, 14 November 2024, ill.
Guerra, Cristela, 'Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson blurs the space between nightclub and ceremony at MASS MoCA', on: wbur.org/news, 6 November 2024, ill.
Brown, Sháńdíín, 'A Swell of Native Pride at Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Symposium', on: hyperallergic.com, 5 November 2024, ill.
___, 'Artist of the Year Shortlist', on: apollo-magazine.com, 4 November 2024, ill.
'Jeffrey Gibson' [podcast interview], on: Talk Art, season 23, episode 6, 17 October, 2024
Ghassemitari, Shawn, 'Hauser & Wirth Announces Representation of Jeffrey Gibson', on: hypebeast.com, 3 October 2024, ill.
Sutton, Benjamin, 'Jeffrey Gibson, artist representing the US at the Venice Biennale, joins Hauser & Wirth', on: theartnewspaper.com, 3 October 2024, ill.
Durón, Maximilíano, 'Fresh Off US Pavilion in Venice, Jeffrey Gibson Joins Hauser & Wirth', on: artnews.com, 3 October 2024, ill.
Barry, Colleen, 'Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson confronts history at US pavilion as its first solo Indigenous artist', on: on: apnews.com, 18 April 2024
Battaglia, Andy, 'In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey Gibson Remixes Native American Histories,' on: artnews.com, 20 May 2024
Can Yerebakan, Osman, 'Ancestral Superbloom', in: Elephant Magazine, no. 49, Spring 2024, cover, pp. 276-283, ill.
Hudson, Anthony, 'Jeffrey Gibson' [interview], on: bombmagazine.org, 14 June 2024
Johnson, Jameson, 'At the Biennale, Jeffrey Gibson arrives on a global stage', on: bostonglobe.com, 18 April 2024
Loos, Ted, 'Jeffrey Gibson Opens the Door to His Hudson Valley Studio Ahead of His Venice Biennale Installation', on: galeriemagazine.com, 19 April 2024
Nelson, Kate, 'For Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson, representing the United States at the Venice Biennale is complicated', on: bbc.com, 18 April 2024
Reinke, Kira, 'Jeffrey Gibson: Unveiling Contemporary Indigenous Artistry in Venice', on: barnebys.com, 22 March 2024
Sandford, Brian, 'Indigenous painter Jeffrey Gibson takes the big stage', on: santafenewmexican.com, 14 June 2024
Scott, Nellie, 'Interview with Jeffrey Gibson', in: Autre, Spring/Summer 2024, pp. 86-93, ill.
Silverman, Erica, 'Jeffrey Gibson’s “the space in which to place me” at the US Pavilion in Venice', on: whitewall.art, 24 April 2024
Silver, Hannah, 'Jeffrey Gibson’s bold works and sculptures dream of a better world', on: wallpaper.com, 17 February 2024
Smith, Melissa, 'Jeffrey Gibson on Representing the United States and Himself', on: sothebys.com, 16 February 2024
Steinhauer, Jill, 'Jeffrey Gibson: Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow', on: nytimes.com, 13 April 2024
Turner, Dare, 'Roundtable: Indigenous Artists at the Venice Biennale', on: frieze.com, 27 March 2024
van Gool, Vere, 'Big Art and Beauty at the 2024 Venice Biennale: An Interview with Jeffrey Gibson', on: pinupmagazine.org, May 2024
White, Katie, 'Artist Jeffrey Gibson on Native American Histories, the Pet Shop Boys, and the Call of Community', on: news.artnet.com, 26 January 2024
Yerebakan, Osman Can, 'Jeffrey Gibson: ANCESTRAL SUPERBLOOM', in: Elephant, 2024, pp. 276-83, ill.