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ARTIST INFORMATION

NAME: Jeffrey Gibson  
NATION: Mississippi Band of Choctaw  
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WEBSITE: www.jeffreygibson.net  
DISCIPLINE: Painter / Mixed Media  
     
     

ARTIST STATEMENT

Chroma is a site-specific video made in 2008 in response to the physical and cultural environment of Flushing, Queens, New York. The materials used to create the various characters were either found in the building where the work was made, or collected and/or purchased in the surrounding area. Flushing is made up of many distinct cultures including Korean, Chinese, Indian and Bangladeshi communities that are represented by the many stores and markets in the area. Chroma documents 57 characters invented through the combining of these various collected objects and materials. Each frame shows one change made to the mannequin and transforms the identifying characteristics from the beautiful to the absurd.

ARTIST BIO

Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in the United States but moved frequently and lived abroad as a child in Germany and Korea. He is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and is half Cherokee.

Selected exhibitions include No Reservations at The Aldrich Museum (2006), Off the Map at The National Museum of The American Indian (2007), Solution at Diverseworks (2009), Totems at Sala Diaz (2009), Signs Taken for Wonders at Jack Shainman Gallery (2009), and Lover at On Stellar Rays (2009). His work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, Art Lies, ArtNews and The Brooklyn Rail.

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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Relevant: Reflection-Reformation-Revival, Rethinking Contemporary Native American Art, New York, NY
2004
Jersey City Museum, NJ, Jersey (New) curated by Dr. Rocio Aranda
 
The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, New American Talent curated by Jerry Saltz
 
Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Super Salon, curated by Kmilo Alvarez
 
Kean University, The Space Between Words, part of Transcultural New Jersey curated by Judith Page
 
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Timeless / Timeliness, Newark, NJ curated by Dominique Nahas
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
2002
Dining Haul: Unpacked, curated by Alisoun Meehan, NY, NY
1999
The Brickhouse, London, The House That Jeff and Phil Built
1998
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Hostutstillingen 98
1998
Candid Arts Trust, London, Graduate Launch Exhibition
1998
The Brickhouse, London, Show Me Something Beautiful
1998
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
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005
American Indian Community House, NYC, Indigenous Anomaly curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby (upcoming August 2005)
2004
Samson Projects, Boston, MA, The Urge That Binds curated by Kmilo 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

Review:

Indian Giver: Jeffrey Gibson's Absurdist Meta-Tribalism at Sala Diaz

Website:

www.jeffreygibson.net