ARTIST BIO

Jeffrey is an active arts educator in museums and schools. He has
taught interpretive programs at The Jersey City Museum, The Bronx Museum,
The Montclair Art Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park. He is currently an
adjunct professor at New Jersey City University and teaches painting and
drawing to gifted and talented high school students at the Arts and
Education Center (NJ).

Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and sculptor living in Jersey City, and working in both New York and New Jersey. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, England in 1998 with a Master of Arts degree. Before moving to New York, Mr. Gibson exhibited in group and solo shows in both London and Norway.

Since returning to the United States in 1999, Jeffrey has exhibited with the Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), The Morris Museum (NJ), Samson Projects (MA), and was selected as the Alternate Fellow for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. His work has also been published in various books and magazines in England, Norway, and Spain.

Jeffrey's work will be featured in upcoming exhibitions at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art (NJ), Kean University (NJ), Jersey City Museum (NJ), The Jones Center for Contemporary Art (TX), and at the American Indian Community House (NYC).

Copyright 2004

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

Bibliography

2004 Timeless / Timeliness, catalog
2004 New American Talent 19, catalog
2004 Asbury Park Review, Metro Section Feature Article
2002 Fortress Europe, by Anne-Brit Rage, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond
2002 John Keene on Dining Haul: Unpacked No. 4, Bridge Magazine
1999 Inside Out, Dazed and Confused, Booth-Clibborn Editions
1999 IT, Innocence issue, Wild Publishing
1999 Akantus (Norwegian National Art textbook), Det Norske Samlaget
1998 Official poster image for Hostutsillingen 98, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo Norway
1998 Aftenposten, National Paper of Norway, Oslo, Norway
1997 SWELL, exhibition catalog

Teaching

2003-present New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Adjunct Faculty
2003 State University of New York (SUNY), Rockland County, NY, Guest Speaker
1998 The University of Plymouth in Exeter, UK, Visiting Tutor
1998 Slade School of Art, London, Visiting Tutor
1998 Kent School of Art and Design, UK, Visiting Tutor

Website:

www.jeffreygibson.net