Jeffrey Gibson
Artist Bio
For over two decades, interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson (American, born 1972) has evolved an aesthetic that examines our armatures of meaning, from language and text to pattern and music, and how they act as interlocutors with the world around us. His work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) where, as a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, he was the first Indigenous artist to represent the country with a solo exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion. Gibson’s artistic practice combines Native art traditions with the visual languages of modernism to explore the confluence of personal identity, popular culture, queer theory, and international social narratives. Across sculpture, painting, and collage, Gibson’s multi-disciplinary work embraces ideas of hybridity and reveals intersections between contemporary issues and past histories.
This biography is adapted from materials from Gibson's 60th Venice Biennale exhibition, the space in which to place me.
