Artists

Jeffrey Gibson

Press release

National Participation - United States of America

Gibson has forged an interdisciplinary practice and hybrid visual language characterized by bold use of color, pattern, and text that combines American, Indigenous, and Queer histories with references to popular subcultures, literature, and global aesthetic and artistic traditions. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson deploys these myriad influences as a form of resistance. His practice reveals how taste, notions of authenticity, and persistent stereotypes of Indigenous people are used to delegitimize cultural expressions that exist outside the mainstream.

Commissioners: Kathleen Ash-Milby, Louis Grachos,  Abigail Winograd
Curators: Kathleen Ash-Milby and Abigail Winograd