BIOGRAPHY  (download pdf version)

b. 1972, Colorado, USA

Education

1998 Royal College of Art, London, UK, Master of Arts
1995 The Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1992 Studied with sculptor Ernest Mirabal, Nambe, New Mexico

Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions

2008 Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
Jeffrey Gibson & Curtis Fairman, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas
2007 ScopeNYC with Samson Projects
2006 talkin’ smack,Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2005 American Indian Community House, NYC, Indigenous Anomaly
2004 Samson Projects, Boston, MA, The Urge That Binds curated by Camilo Alvarez
2001 The Bronx Museum of The Arts, NY, (re)positions
1998 G.U.N. Gallery, Oslo, Norway, Fever
1997 Hockney Gallery, London, Transitional Bodies

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 CIRCA, Puerto Rico featuring Jeffrey Gibson and Rune Olsen
Spaces Between Spaces, Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC
Voices from the Mound, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Native Voices, Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn NY and Long Island University
Visions, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
2007 Red Badge of Courage curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
SonotubeŽ Forms - Contemporary Art and Transport, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Off The Map curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby, The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, NYC (catalog)
New England School of Art and Design, organized by Charles Giuliano, Boston, MA
Postmillennial Black Madonna (in two parts) : Paradise @ MoCADA and Inferno @ Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 No Reservations curated by Richard Klein, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT (catalog)
Paperworks curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LA
Westport Arts Center, CT, BROOKLYN, curated by Amy Simon
State University of New York, Stonybrook, Paumanoka, curated by Stephanie Dinkins, catalog
The Jersey City Museum, Tropicalisms, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Amy Simon Fine Arts, Inaugural Exhibition
ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Samson Projects, February 2006
MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, with Samson Projects, April 2006
Benefit Auction, Renaissance Society, Chicago
Groundswell Community Murals, Exit Art, NYC
2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL, showing with Samson Projects December 2005
Massimo Audiello, Le Désert de Retz, NYC curated by David Hunt
Alona Kagan Gallery, From the Root to the Fruit, NYC curated by David Hunt
Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Out of Bound curated by Jennifer McGregor
New Jersey State University, Evolving Pattern, NJ organized by Midori Yoshimoto
Media Bureau Network Studios, Spectro Surface, Philadelphia, PA organized by Tadashi Moriyama
Iandor Fine Arts, Newark, NJ, Play curated by Jomo Jelani Heywood
Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance AIR Exhibition
American Indian Community House Gallery, NYC, In The Mix organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby
Artists for Tsunami Relief, Phillips de Pury & Company, organized by Orit Ben-Shitrit
Groundswell Community Murals, Artists Space organized by Jenny Laden
2004 Jersey City Museum, NJ, Jersey (New) curated by Dr. Rocio Aranda
The Jones Art Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, New American Talent selection by Jerry Saltz
Kean University, The Space Between Words, NJ curated by Judith Page
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Timeless/Timeliness, Newark, NJ curated by Dominique Nahas
Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Super Salon curated by Camilo Alvarez
2003 The Morris Museum, NJ, The Art of Collecting curated by Laura Galvanek
2002 The Morris Museum, NJ, The New Jersey Arts Annual selection by Willie Cole
Dining Haul: Unpacked, NYC curated by Alisoun Meehan
1999 The Brickhouse, London, The House That Jeff and Phil Built
1998 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Høstutstillingen 98
Candid Arts Trust, London, Graduate Launch Exhibition
The Brickhouse, London, Show Me Something Beautiful
Royal College of Art, London, Royal College Degree Show
1997 Royal College of Art Drawing Studio, London, Teenage Wallpaper
Henry Moore Gallery, London, SWELL

Grants and Awards

2005 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
Vision, Space, and Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity (Symposium), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Venice, Italy, Chaired by curator Dr. Gerald McMaster, invited artist
2004 Artist Alliance, Inc. / Alianza de Artistas Studio Program, NYC
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
1997 Royal College of Art Travel Grant
1996 Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Scholarship