Jeffrey Gibson — À propos — Slash Paris

Through his work, Jeffrey Gibson celebrates the strength and joy of both queer and indigenous communities, while also highlighting their resilience and advocating for their rights.

Born in 1972 in Colorado Springs, Co., he grew up in various locations across the United States, Germany, Korea, and England. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus on painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995, followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 1998. A member of the Choctaw tribe of the Mississippi Band and of Cherokee descent, he currently resides and works near Hudson, New York.

His artistic practice explores various mediums to shed light on the cultural and artistic legacies of his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage through modern modes of expression, while also delving into themes inspired by contemporary popular culture and queer identity.

Gibson’s creations are featured in the permanent collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, as well as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, among others. Gibson has received numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2019, the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Award in 2015, and a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation in 2005.

He will be representing the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale.