Some Australians will know Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson for his stand out pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. It was the first time an Indigenous North American artist represented the United States with a solo exhibition in this powerhouse pavilion’s 94-year history – and it got the world watching.
The celebrated artist was in Australia last week to deliver the National Gallery of Australia’s Annual Lecture. It follows the recent unveiling of his Genesis Facade Commission, The Animal That Therefore I Am, at the Met Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the acquisition of Untitled Figure 2 (2022) by the NGA, which is currently on display.
