Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995, and Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 1998. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College.
 
Gibson has received many distinguished awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2012), and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (2019). Gibson also conceived and coedited the landmark volume An Indigenous Present (2023), which showcases diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms, and media. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Portland Art Museum; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; and Whitney Museum of American Art; among others.
 
Gibson received The 2025 Genesis Facade Commission, exhibiting four sculptures in a work titled The Animal That Therefore I Am at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view through June 9, 2026. Other recent exhibitions include the space in which to place me at The Broad in Los Angeles, which consisted of most of the artist’s works from the 2024 Venice Biennale where he was the first solo Indigenous artist to represent the United States; DREAMING OF HOW IT’S MEANT TO BE (2024) at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; and They Teach Love (2023) at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman.
 
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Images:
1. Jeffrey Gibson, I FEEL REAL WHEN YOU HOLD ME, (prototype), 2024, blanket edition, Sharon Coplan for Sothebys to benefit the US Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, photo by Menelik Puryear. Courtesy of the artist.
2. Jeffrey Gibson, SAY A PRAYER, 2021 (21-306) Twenty-one color lithograph with chine collé elements. Paper Size: 39 x 30 1/4 inches Paper Type: Thai Kozo, Newsprint grey. Somerset velvet and Gampi. Collaborating Printer(s): Valpuri Remling and Lindsey Sigmon, Tamarind Institute. Edition of 20. Image courtesy of Tamarind Institute.
3. Jeffrey Gibson, 2020 A Time For Change Screen print on handmade elk hide drum in a custom frame Varied edition of 24 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches framed. Image courtesy of Tandem Press.