Jeffrey Gibson

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JEFFREY GIBSON 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 One & Two Person Exhibitions
2012	Participant, Inc. (catalog)
2011	222 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, NM
2010	Jeffrey Gibson & Jackie Sacoccio, Samson Projects, Boston, MA Jeffrey Gibson, SubmergeArin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2009	Totems, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
2008	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
2012	Exhibition Title TBD, Le Cent Quatre, Paris, France (catalog) Shapeshifter, Peabody Essex Museum, Peabody, MA (catalog) Changing Hands 3, Museum of Art & Design, NYC (catalog)
2011	Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Close Encounters, catalog Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samson, Cottage Home, LA, CA An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Exhibitions and Mass MoCA, Brooklyn and Massachusetts (catalog)
2010	Collision, organized by Jackie Saccoccio, The Rhode Island School of Art and Design Museum, Providence, RI Vantage Point, National Museum of The American Indian, Smithsonian Institution,, Washington DC Lush Life: An Exhibition in Nine Chapters, organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Franklin Evans, Invisible Exports Gallery, NYC, NY Everyday Mystics, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco CA New Paintings, Staley Wise Gallery, NYC, NY Alluring Subversions, Timken Art Center, California College of The Arts, CA Currents, organized by Cicely Cullen, University of Northern Colorado, CO
2009	Currents, Metro State, Center for Visual Arts, organized by Cicely Cullen Lover, organized by Kate Gilmore and Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays, NYC, NY Signs Taken for Wonders curated by Dr. Isolde Brielamaier, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, NY Surveillance curated by Rachel Vancelette, Affirmation Arts, NYC, NY Solutions organized by Janet Phelps, Diverseworks, Houston, TX Recent Acquisitions, Eiteljorg 2008-09 Fellows, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN (catalog)
2008	BlueBalls, Art Production Fund Lab, NY. curated by Jackie Saccoccio Flushing Town Hall Projects, organized by Omar Lopez Chahoud 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 Sonotube® 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
2011	Contemporary Arts Grant, National Museum of The American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
2010	Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence Sam and Adele Golden Fellowship for Painting Herekeke, Artist in Residence
2009	Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, Percent for Art Commission, PS264
2008	Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship, 2008-09 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), Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Venice, Italy, Chaired by curator Dr. Gerald McMaster, invited artist
2004	Artist Alliance, Inc. / Alianza de Artistas Studio Program, NYC, 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
1997	Royal College of Art Travel Grant
1996	Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Scholarship
Bibliography
2011	BRAVO Television's Arts and Minds, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, airs April 30, 2011 Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, exhibition catalog, forthcoming Fuse Magazine, Art / Culture / Politics, The Stars Are Aligning Themselves in Winnipeg, by J.J. Kegan McFadden, April 6, 2011 New American Paintings Blog, 11 to Watch in 2011: Editor's Picks, by Evan Garza, January 10, 2011 The Providence Journal, Collision at RISD Celebrates the Ephemeral and Experimental, by Bill Van Siclen, January 20 The Providence Phoenix, Collision Showcases Scatter Art at The RISD Art Museum, by Greg Cook, January 25 CKUW, 95.9, Winnipeg, radio interview, Eat Your Arts and Vegetables, January 20, 2011 Aboriginal Art News, International Indigenous Gathering in Winnipeg, Posted by Jeremy Eccles, January 31, 2011 Uptown Magazine, online journal, Get a Little Closer, by Sandee Moore, March 2, 2011 Big Hug Studio, blog, Interview with Artist Jeffrey Gibson, January 9, 2011
2010	The Boston Globe, The Year's Top 10 and A Year of Promising Signs, by Cate McQuaid, December 29, 2010 The Art Papers, Jackie Saccoccio + Jeffrey Gibson, by Evan Garza, November / December Hélène Cixous, Peinetures. Écrits sur l'art, published by Ellago Ediciones The Boston Globe, In Show, Controlled Chaos, by Cate McQuaid, November 14 The Boston Globe, Wall to Wall Abstraction, by Cate McQuaid, September 22
2009	Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship 2009-10 Catalog, essay by Jimmie Durham Signs Taken For Wonders, exhibition catalog with essay by Isolde Brielmaier & Deborah Willis Art Lies, Totems Review, June Issue, written by Ben Judson Visionary Drawing Building (2009), a publication organized and produced by Matt Bua and Max Goldfarb San Antonio Current, Indian Giver: Jeffrey Gibson’s Absurdist Meta-Tribalism at Sala Diaz, written by Sarah Fisch SA210, Sala Diaz ‘Totems' exhibit blends Native American and consumer culture, written by Emily Messer
2008	Make It Rain, exhibition catalog, Essay by David Pagel Las Vegas Weekly, Nice Piece of Glass, review by Danielle Kelly Las Vegas City Life, In da club, review by Jarret Keene The New Canoe, Season 7, interview, CTV’s A Channel Queens Chronicle, Visions From Abroad, by Michael Mohammed Confederated Umatilla Journal, interview by Wil Phinney
2007	ArtNews, Tribal Hybrids, Cynthia Nadelman, p. 127, June 2007 Village Voice, Critic’s Pick, Off the Map, Issue dated June 5-12, by R.C. Baker New York Times, Art Review for Off the Map, by Grace Glueck, March 23, 2007 Bloomberg Television, ArtMuse feature, for Off the Map, interview by Andrea Simon
2006	The Boston Globe, Talkin’ Smack, exhibition review by Kate McQuaid, December 14, 2006 No Reservations, exhibition catalog, published by The Aldrich Museum Pamanouk, exhibition catalog, published by State University of New York Maverick Arts Magazine, Fast Forwarding When Hemispheres Collide, written by Charles Giuliano, issue 255 Art World Digest, {UN}AMBIGUOUS, a printed exhibition, edited by David Cohen, March 2006 College Art Association Conference, Contemporary Indigenous Artists of the Northeast, Boston, MA, panel organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby Jeffrey Gibson: Indigenous Anomaly, interview by Kathleen Ash-Milby, produced by Terry Jones and Sarah Sense, aired on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Connecticut Post, Brooklyn Accents, written by Philip Eliasoph, February 5, 2006 Fairfield County Weekly, Brooklyn By Design, written by Brita Belli, February 2, 2006
2005	The New York Times, Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Hanging it on the Wall, written by Benjamin Genocchio European Review of Native American Studies, 19:1, 2005, Contemporary Native American Art in the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Legacy, written by Ash-Milby, Kathleen E Out of Bounds, exhibition brochure NYArts Magazine, Curating Out of Bounds, May/June 2005, Vol. 10, No. 5/6, written by Jennifer McGregor Evolving Pattern, exhibition brochure with essay by Midori Yoshimoto The Brooklyn Rail, Out of Bounds, May 2005, written by Ben La Rocco NYArts, Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds, July/August 2005, vol. 10, written by Fu Chia-Wen-Lien The Riverdale Press, Out of Bounds, written by Alejandro Lazo The Boston Globe, Arts Calender, written by Cate McQuaid The South End News, Vol. 25, No. 31, written by Thomas Garvey The Bronx Beat, February 21-27, written by Natasha Allen The Gotham Times, November 18, 2005, Jeffrey Gibson’s Indigenous Anomaly, review by Erica Freeman 2004 The New York Times, Images From The Other New Jersey, written by Benjamin Genocchio State of the Arts, New Jersey Network, ‘Tis of Thee, interview by Christopher Benincasa Kean University, The Space Between Words, panel discussion Jersey City Museum, jersey (new), panel discussion and online interview Asbury Park Review, Metro Section Feature Article, written by Marie Maber New American Talent 19, exhibition catalog Timeless / Timeliness, exhibition catalog Transcultural New Jersey, exhibition catalog
2002	Fortress Europe, by Anne-Brit Rage, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond John Keene on Dining Haul: Unpacked No. 4, Bridge Magazine New Jersey Arts Annual, exhibition catalogue
1999	Inside Out, Dazed and Confused, Booth-Clibborn Editions IT, Innocence issue, Wild Publishing Akantus (Norwegian National Art textbook), Det Norske Samlaget
1998	Official poster image for Høstutsillingen 98, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway Aftenposten, National Paper of Norway, Oslo, Norway
1997	SWELL, exhibition catalog
Public Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

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ARTnews, June 2007 [pdf]

New York Times, March 23, 2007 [pdf]

Boston Globe, January 6 - 12, 2005 [pdf]

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