The Space in Which to Place Me

Jeffrey Gibson's selection to represent the United States at the Biennale Arte 2024 marks the first solo presentation of an Indigenous artist for the U.S. Pavilion. The Space in Which to Place Me is commissioned by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Louis Grachos, and Abigail Winograd and is presented jointly by the Portland Art Museum (Oregon) and SITE Santa Fe (New Mexico). Gibson has forged an interdisciplinary practice and hybrid visual language characterized by bold use of color, pattern, and text that combines American, Indigenous, and Queer histories with references to popular subcultures, literature, and global aesthetic and artistic traditions. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson deploys these myriad influences as a form of resistance. His practice reveals how taste, notions of authenticity, and persistent stereotypes of Indigenous people are used to delegitimize cultural expressions that exist outside the mainstream. Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College. Gibson has received many distinguished awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2012), and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (2019). Gibson also conceived and co-edited the landmark volume An Indigenous Present (2023), which showcases diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms, and media. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Portland Art Museum; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Commissioners: Kathleen Ash-Milby, Louis Grachos,  Abigail Winograd Curators: Kathleen Ash-Milby and Abigail Winograd

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