Mark Thomas Gibson
Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL; l. Philadelphia, PA) has a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, and an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. In 2016, he co-curated the exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo. Gibson has had recent solo exhibitions at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; The Library Company of Philadelphia, PA; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY; and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI. He has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; MacDowell Fellowship; Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency; Hodder Fellowship, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University; and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, along with other grants, awards and residencies. Gibson has two artist books: Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). He is Associate Professor and Program Head of Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Gibson's personal lens on American culture stems from his multifaceted viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of drawing, painting, print, and sculpture revealing a vision of a satirical, dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.
