The Un-Private Collection: Jeffrey Gibson and Alexandra Grant
Overview
Jeffrey Gibson and Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant met in London in the late 90’s while he was completing his Master of Arts degree at the Royal College of Art. They bonded over the writings of French writer and playwright Hélène Cixous and Alexandra went on to work extensively with Hélène as she developed her own practice. Jeffrey and Alexandra have remained friends and contemporaries for nearly 30 years. This conversation will explore their ongoing dialogue about their shared interests and art practices and focus on Jeffrey’s exhibition, the space in which to place me, at The Broad.
A book signing will follow the conversation where copies of the Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me catalogue will be available for purchase.
Installation shot of Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at the 60th Venice Biennale, 2024. Photos by Jeffrey Schenck. Jeffrey Gibson photo by Brian Barlow, courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio. Alexandra Grant photo courtesy of the artist
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Alexandra Grant
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles– and Berlin–based visual artist whose work explores issues around communication across languages, literary traditions, and cultures. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions around the world. Awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, the California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grant is a Lunder Fellow at Colby College in Maine and has been recognized by Phaidon Press in Vitamin Txt as a global text-based artist of note. She is the creator of the grantLOVE Project, which has raised funds for arts-based nonprofits, and is also co-founder of independent publisher X Artists’ Books. Grant received her Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts and her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College.
Photo courtesy of the artist
Jeffrey Gibson
For over two decades, interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson 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 2024 Venice Biennale where, as a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, he was the first Indigenous artist to represent the U.S. with a solo exhibition. His work is currently on view in a solo exhibition at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) through May 2026, and in September, he will debut his presentation for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2025 Genesis Facade Commission. Gibson has received many distinguished awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (2019) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2012). He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995) and a Master of Arts in painting from the Royal College of Art, London (1998).
Photo by Brian Barlow
