Jeffrey Gibson, (b. 1972, Colorado Springs, CO; lives and works in New York) grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and England. A mid-career multidisciplinary artist, he is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and is half Cherokee, who incorporates his heritage into his work, which includes abstract sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. Gibson earned his MFA in painting from the Royal College of Art, London (1998) and his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995). The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Gibson was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2012), a TED Foundation Fellowship (2012), and a Creative Capital Foundation Grant (2005). His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including his most recent 2018-2019 traveling exhibition and accompanying catalog, Like a Hammer, organized by the Denver Art Museum and currently on view at the Seattle Art Museum. He has also held other recent solo exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah and Atlanta; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; and the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY which will travel to the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX in July 2019. Gibson’s work can be found in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Canada; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; and Smithsonian Institution. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in New York and is a member of the Faculty at Bard College.

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Jeffrey Gibson received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995), MA at the Royal College of Art, London (1998), and an honorary doctorate at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (2016). Major exhibitions of Gibson's work include Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, Brooklyn Museum (2020); She Never Dances Alone, Times Square Arts, New York (2020); Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2019); Jeffrey Gibson: The Anthropophagic Effect, The New Museum, New York (2019); Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Denver Art Museum, traveling to Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, Seattle Art Museum, and Madison Museum of Art, Madison, WI (2018-19); This is the Day, Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY (2018); and Love Song, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Gibson is a recipient of numerous awards, notably he was honored as the Premier Artist in the 2021 Art Basel Conversation Series; he received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2019); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award (2015); and Creative Capital Foundation Grant (2005). Gibson’s work is included in numerous institutional collections such as Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Denver Art Museum; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; San Francisco Museum of Modern; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.