JEFFREY GIBSON
Lives in Brooklyn
Born in 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

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2006 Samson Projects, December 2006
Amy Simon Fine Arts, November 2006

2005 American Indian Community House, NYC, Indigenous Anomaly
organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby

2004 Samson Projects, Boston, MA, The Urge That Binds
organized 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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, NYC, Off The Map, organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby, March 2007

catalog New England School of Art and Design, organized by Charles Giuliano, February 2007

2006 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, No Reservations, CT organized by Richard Klein, September 2006

catalog Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Paperworks, LA, organized by Daria Brit Shapiro The Fireplace Project, Sci-Fi Lullaby, NY, organized by Michael Steinberg and Daria Brit Shapiro Westport Arts Center, CT, BROOKLYN, organized by Amy Simon State University of New York, Stonybrook, Paumanoka, organized by Stephanie Dinkins, September 2006

catalog The Jersey City Museum, Tropicalisms, organized by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Fall 2006

Amy Simon Fine Arts, Inaugural Exhibition Art Fairs NADA, Miami, December 2006 ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Samson Projects, February 2006 MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, with Samson Projects, April 2006 Benefit Exhibitions 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 organized by David Hunt Alona Kagan Gallery

From the Root to the Fruit, NYC organized by David Hunt Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery

Out of Bounds organized 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 organized by Jomo Jelani Heywood Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance AIR Exhibition American Indian Community House Gallery, NYC

In The Mix organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby

BENEFIT EXHIBITIONS

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) organized 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 organized by Judith Page

Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Timeless/Timeliness, Newark, NJ
organized by Dominique Nahas

Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Super Salon organized by Camilo Alvarez

2003 The Morris Museum, NJ, The Art of Collecting organized by Laura Galvanek

2002 The Morris Museum, NJ, The New Jersey Arts Annualselection by Willie Cole
Dining Haul: Unpacked, NYCorganized 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

1997 Henry Moore Gallery, London, SWELL

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Artist2005 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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 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
Maverick Arts, online journal, interview by Charles Giuliano, issue 247
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