Jeffrey Gibson

BIOGRAPHY
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JEFFREY GIBSON
1972 Colorado Springs, CO
  Lives and works in Germantown, NY
   
Education
2016 Honorary Doctorate, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1998 MA, Royal College of Art, London, GB
1995 BFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
   
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Jeffrey Gibson:This Is The Day, The Blanton Museum, Austin, TX
  Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
  Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2018 Don't Make Me Over, The de la Cruz Gallery of Art, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
  THIS IS THE DAY, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
  Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Missisipi Museum of Contemporary Art, Jackson, MS
  Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2017 In Such Times, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
  Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
  Look How Far We’ve Come!, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2016 A Kind of Confession, Gallery 1600, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
2015 Jeffrey Gibson, Marc Straus, New York, NY
  Jeffrey Gibson, Lange & Sohne, New York, NY
2014 Jeffrey Gibson, Marc Straus, New York, NY
2013 Love Song, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
  Said The Pigeon To The Squirrel, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  Tipi Poles Performing As Lines, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
  The Spirits Refuse Without A Body, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Timeline, performance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  Artist in Residence, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2012 Jeffrey Gibson, Marc Straus, New York, NY
  One Becomes The Other, Participant Inc, New York, NY
  One Becomes The Other, American Contemporary, New York, NY
  Nephelococcygia, Permanent Percent for Art Installation, PS264-Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Jeffrey Gibson, 222 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, NM
  Jeffrey Gibson, Submerge Arin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2009 Totems Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
2006 Talkin’ Smack, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2005 Indigenous Anomaly, American Indian Community House, New York, NY
2001 (re)positions, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, New York, NY
1998 Fever, G.U.N. Gallery, Oslo, NO
1997 Transitional Bodies, Hockney Gallery, London, GB
   
Group Exhibitions
2019 Re: Define, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
  Suffering from Realness, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA 
  Aftereffect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2018 One Way or Another, Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
  Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
  A Decolonial Atlas, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2017 Sanctuary, For-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
  Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
  Sanctuary, FOR SITE FOUNDATION, San Francisco, CA
  Opulent Landscapes, DeBuck Gallery, Saint Paul De Vance, FR
  From a whisper to a scream, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
  Desert X Biennial, Palm Desert, CA
  A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies In Contemporary Art Of The Americas, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
2016 Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
  Perfect Day, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
  Affinity Atlas, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
  New Geometries, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  An Evening Redness in the West, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  Convene, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
  Much Wider Than A Line, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, NM,
  Kindred Beasts, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
  Obsidian Gaze, Riddu Riddu Festival, Sammuelsberg, NO
  March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
  No Commission, The Dean Collection, New York, NY
2015 Between History and Body, The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
  P3 Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
  Piece by Piece, Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  Gray Would Be The Color if I Had a Heart, Marc Straus, New York, NY
2014 Contemporary American Indian Art, The Nerman Museum Collection, Overland Park, KA
2013 Sakahàn National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
  Outside The Lines, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
  Fiction / Non-Fiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary, CA
  Totem, Aysa Geisberg, New York, NY
  Hotbox Fever, Steven Wolf, San Francisco, CA
  The Old Becomes The New, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Shapeshifter, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA,
  Changing Hands 3, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
  E-Vapor-8, 319 Scholes, New York, NY
  Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2011 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, Boston,MA
  Close Encounters, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, CA
  Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samson, Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY and Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
  Drift of Summer, RM Gallery, Auckland, NZ
  Observe/Recognize, Berlin Gallery at Legends, Santa Fe, NM
2010 The Shades: Jeffrey Gibson and Jackie Saccoccio, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  Collision, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
  Lush Life, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, NY
  Everyday Mystics, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Vantage Point, Recent Acquisitions Smithsonian National Museum of The American Indian, Washington D.C.
  Raw State, Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  New Paintings, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, NY
  Alluring Subversions, Timken Art Center, California College of The Arts, San Diego, CA
  Currents, University of Northern Colorado, Greenley, CO
2009 Lover, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
  Signs Taken For Wonders, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
  Surveillance, Affirmation Arts, New York, NY
  Solutions, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
  Recent Acquisitions, Eiteljorg 2008-09 Fellows, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
  The Banality of Good, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
  Currents, Metro Visual Arts Center, Denver, CO
  Relevant, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2008 Make It Rain, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
  Blueballs, Art Production Fund LAB, New York, NY
  Visions, Flushing Town Hall Projects, Flushing, NY
  Voices of the Mound, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
  Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art/Works, on Paper Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, NY and Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
  Cautionary Tales, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  Shameless, 1x1 Project, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Sonotube, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
  Off The Map, The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
  Postmillennial Black Madonna (in two parts), New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
  Paradise, MoCADA, and Inferno, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
  Newark Open 2007, Newark, NJ
2006 No Reservations, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  Paperworks, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Brooklyn, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
  Paumanoka, State University of New York, Stonybrook, NY
  Tropicalisms, The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2005 Le Désert de Retz, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY
  From the Root, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
  Out of Bounds, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, New York, NY
  Evolving Pattern, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
  Play, Landor Fine Arts, Newark, NJ
  AIR, Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance, New York, NY
2004 The Urge That Binds, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  Jersey (New), Jersey City Museum, NJ
  New American Talent, The Jones Art Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
  The Space Between Words, Kean University, Union, NJ
  Timeless/Timeliness, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
  Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
   
Public Collection
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
   
Grants and Awards
2015 Art Matters Grant
2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Award
  TED Foundation Fellow
2011 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of The American Indian, Contemporary Arts Grant
  Jerome Foundation Research and Travel Grant
  HARPO Foundation Grant
2010 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
  Herekeke, Artist in Residence
2009 Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, Percent for Art Commission, PS264
2008 Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship
  Crow Shadow Printmaking Residency
  Dubin Fellowship, Indian Arts Research Center, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Art Omi International Artist Residency
2005 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
  Vision, Space, and Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity (Symposium), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Venice, Italy
2004 Artist Alliance, Inc. / Alianza de Artistas Studio Program, New York, NY
  Newark Museum, Artist in Residence
  Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop
2002 Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian Alternate Fellow
  Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2003
1998 Bundy Project Award
1996 Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Scholarship