Jeffrey Gibson is currently representing the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale. He is the first Indigenous American artist to receive the honor.
Gibson is the recipient of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Façade Commission for 2025–2026. He will create four figurative sculptures for the niches in the museum’s iconic Fifth Avenue exterior.
Gibson has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the New Museum in 2019, the Brooklyn Museum in 2020–2021 and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2021.
In 2019 Gibson was awarded the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Provenance
Marc Straus, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner
signed and dated "Jeffrey Gibson 2015" on the reverse glass beads, steel and brass studs, quartz crystals, wire, wool, wood and artificial sinew 21 1/2 x 41 in. (54.6 x 104.1 cm) Executed in 2015.