Dates
20 October - 20 December 2025
Jeffrey Gibson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in France will take place at Hauser & Wirth’s Parisian outpost this Autumn. Celebrating the breadth of Gibson’s output, the exhibition features three new groups of paintings, ranging from large to intimate in scale, alongside new works from Gibson’s series of celebrated punching bags, hanging cloaks, paintings on paper, canvas and beaded panel, as well as a new body of free-standing ceramic head sculptures. The title of the show, ‘This is dedicated to the one I love,’ is a pause for empathy and a meditation on how we act and make in times of crisis.
Over the past three decades, Gibson has developed a rich interdisciplinary practice that draws from American, Indigenous and queer histories as well as references to popular music, literature and art historical narratives. The artist’s distinctive visual language embraces a broad spectrum of cultural expressions and collaged identities in a way that is simultaneously intimate and radically expansive. The works on show are characterized by Gibson’s bold chromatic sensibility and emphasis on pattern and abstraction, whilst also drawing on histories of color studies and the concept of the psycho-prismatic, how color, light and prisms allow us to see multiple things at once.
About the Artist
Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea, where he absorbed the transgressive soundtrack of the 1980s through limited access to MTV. Gibson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and received a Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. While in Chicago he also worked as a research assistant on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for the Field Museum, a formative experience that fostered an ongoing interest in questions of ownership and notions of cultural translation. Though trained as a painter, Gibson began incorporating materials and techniques that deliberately reference his heritage—such as raw hides and bead work—around 2010. A major turning point in his career, in 2012 he presented ‘one becomes the other,’ his first solo exhibition of sculpture and video, at Participant Inc. Sculpture, moving image, and sound have since become an integral aspect of his practice. He is known for his immersive, multi-sensory installations that invoke and interweave such disparate contexts as faith-based spaces of communion and night clubs.
Current Exhibitions
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