Jeffrey Gibson news

The Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) has organized a convening in Venice on the relationship of Indigenous North American art and cultures to global histories.

'On Earth' features five artists who use moving image to explore the complex relationships between humans and the natural environment.

In 'Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art', 50 international, intergenerational artists use textiles to communicate vital ideas about power, resistance and survival.

'(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art' celebrates the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the landscape in American art, from its origins in 19th century painting into contemporary art. The show highlights the unsettled, or evolving, conversations around landscape and its relationship to establishing cultural and national identity over the last two centuries.

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'House of Spirits', as part of 'Queer Nature', a festival celebrating the diversity and beauty of queer plants and fungi in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens. 

'Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction' foregrounds an over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles over the past century.

'They Teach Love' is a solo exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson. Curated from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, it presents a survey of over 35 objects across a span of fifteen years.

'Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969' centres performance and theatre as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists.

'Uptown Triennial 2023' is a visual arts tribute to the sonic world— music, soundscapes, and spoken word—that resonates with the spirit of Harlem.

'To Be Free: Art and Liberty' explores human rights and freedoms, questioning what it means to be free.

'Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter' explores homemaking as a manifestation of cultural history and identity. Its artists reflect on 'home’ from their own perspectives,  while also registering the shared hopes and anxieties asociated with ideas of domestic space, environment and belonging.

An immersive, site-responsive installation by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson, 'They Come From Fire' transforms the exterior windows on the facade of the museum’s main building as well as the two-story interior court. This dynamic work celebrates Portland’s Indigenous history, presence and vitality and coincides with a survey of Dakota modernist Oscar Howe, serving as a bridge between the museum’s contemporary and Native American art collections.

Jeffrey Gibson presents 'THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING', an ambitious flag twirling and speaking performance at Anderson Park Meadow at the Aspen Institute. The live piece incorporates a group of fifteen colour guard performers in a specialised choreographed presentation.

The first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art, ‘Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art’ examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices. The presentation includes ‘The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 4’, 2019 by Jeffrey Gibson and ‘The Ghost of Eliza Jumel’, 2015 by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.

'I AM YOUR RELATIVE' is a multi-purpose installation featuring 15 moveable stages that populate the Museum’s Floor 1. Co-commissioned by MOCA and the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA), the surface of the stages become an archive over time as they are covered with posters created by Jeffrey Gibson that incorporate text and images from local historical archives and from the public. 

Jeffrey Gibson speaks to Anne Ellegood, Director, ICA LA, about key moments in his career and upcoming projects.  

The talk will take place on Thursday 28 October, 6-7pm MDT (GMT-6) ahead of Gibson's upcoming residency at Tamarind Institute. 

‘To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth’ is an exhibition of new and recent multimedia works by Jeffrey Gibson, incorporating quilts, garments, drums, prints and video. The presentation takes its title from ‘Late Fragment’, the final poem in Raymond Carver’s last published work, ‘A New Path to the Waterfall’.

‘Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and our Contemporary Moment’ is a national collaborative exhibition exploring the theme of cross pollination in art and the environment from the 19th century to today.

Monumental sculpture ‘Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House’, by Jeffrey Gibson borrows its title from ‘Can You Feel It’ by Mr. Fingers (Larry Heard), a song the artist associates with nightclubs that have provided haven and community especially for LGBTQ+ people and BIPOC.