Jeffrey Gibson is a Mississippi Choctaw with Cherokee descent and the first Native American artist represented at the Venice Biennale, the oldest contemporary art show, since 1932.
Jeffrey Gibson’s takeover of the U.S. pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show is a celebration of color, pattern and craft, which is immediately evident on approaching the bright red facade decorated by a colorful clash of geometry and a foreground dominated by a riot of gigantic red podiums. Gibson, a Mississippi Choctaw with Cherokee descent, is the first Native American to represent the United States solo at the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest contemporary art show.
The first is not the most important story,' Gibson told The Associated Press this week before the pavilion’s inauguration on Thursday. 'The first is hopefully the beginning of many, many, many more stories to come.' The commission, his first major show in Europe, comes at a pivotal moment for Gibson.
Still, his art incorporates many traditions and practices that go beyond his Indigenous background. 'I’ve looked at op art, pattern and decoration. I've looked at psychedelia, I have taken part in rave culture and queer culture and drag and the whole spectrum,' Gibson said. 'And so for me, I would not be not telling you the whole truth if I only chose to spoke about indigeneity. But my body is an Indigenous body — it’s all funneled through this body,'' he said.
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