Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit, 1982)
REPRESENTATION
Agency representation by Hignite Projects: +1 (214) 558-3086 | sara@sarahignite.com
Represented in Dallas, TX, by Conduit Gallery
EDUCATION
2010-2013MFA, The University of Texas at Arlington
2008-2010BFA, The University of Tampa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2023Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Friends?
2022Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, Germany – Film Series
Nasher Public / Katy Trail, Dallas, TX – Borest Forest, Grunting Grasses (with Gregory Ruppe)
Houston Sculpture Month in the Silos, Houston, TX – Hello, Goodbye
2021Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Wablu the Shlablues
2019Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Planet Sandwich
2018Le Sud Bébé, Marseille, France – Mop and Dream Body go to France (with Gregory Ruppe)
Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA – Culture Hole: Surfin’ the Dream Channels
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX – Grubnik and Suzanne (with Gregory Ruppe)
Sammons Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX – The Birds (dance performance in with Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet)
Dirty Dark Place, Kyle, TX – Arm Again, Again Inc.
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Noodle in the Wind
2017Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, México – Proximidad
Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, México – Lines of Dialogue
Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL – Culture Hole: Black Hole, White Hole
Power Station, Dallas, TX – Proximidad
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX – Jane Magnolia Jane (musical performance with Gregory Ruppe and Danny Skinner)
20161-800-789-2228, audio art space – There are no stray hairs in old movies
Majestic Theater, Dallas, TX – Masque of the Red Death (with G. R., Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet)
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Clown Ambulance
2015Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX – Auto Relativity Kinetotron
Epitome Institute, San Antonio, TX – Necrotic Black Black Swimming Pool (with Gregory Ruppe)
galleryHOMELAND, Houston, TX – Kokomo (with Gregory Ruppe)
Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX – Room Dog Child (with Gregory Ruppe)
Site-specific experiential performance, Dallas, TX – Lazer Tag 2015 (created with Jesse Morgan Barnett)
The MAC, Dallas, TX – Slow Self-Exile to Banana Planet (with Gregory Ruppe)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX – “Dry Again?” (music, Gregory Ruppe and Danny Skinner)
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Drink the Bath
2014 CentralTrak Gallery, Dallas, TX – Let the Drip from the Ceiling Become an 8 Foot Hole in the Roof
Two Bronze Doors, Dallas, TX – 11:11
Beef Haus, Dallas, TX – A Beetle on its Back (with Gregory Ruppe)
Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX – ᗺ (with Justin Ginsberg)
500x, Dallas, TX – Knotted Noodle
2013OFG.xxx, Dallas, TX – Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter
2012OFG.xxx, Dallas, TX – Boylet Toilet
500x, Dallas, TX – Gabriel’s Horn
McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX – Humming Music / Grinding Teeth
2010Gallery 501, Tampa, FL – I Am Love, I Am Sorry
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022SITE 131, Dallas, TX – Texas Collects
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX – Permanent Collection Installation
Aurora Downtown, Dallas, TX
Dallas Art Fair, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021Aurora, Fort Worth, TX – New Stories, New Futures
2020Dallas Art Fair, Online – Here, Now
2019The Power Station, Dallas, TX – Good Moves
PRP, Dallas, TX – Better Homes and Gardens
2017Beefhaus, Dallas, TX – Beeflix 3
Austin Art Fair, OFG.XXX, Austin, TX
Dallas Art Fair, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016Houston Art Fair, galleryHomeland, Houston, TX
Beefhaus, Dallas, TX – Beeflix
2015Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima, Japan – Obake Hotel
Reunion, Zurich, Switzerland – Extension of Sundowner and Obake Hotel
A&M University, Canyon, TX – Multi-Channel
OMNI Hotel, Dallas, TX – Expanded Cinema, curated by Justine Ludwig
Gray Matters, Dallas, TX – Chirality
2014KoncertKirken Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX – Residency Exchange
500X, Dallas, TX – co|action (collaboration with Darryl Lauster)
Power Station, Dallas, TX – Amarillo Entropy
Circuit 12, Dallas, TX – Sundowner
Dallas Biennial, Dallas, TX – DB14
El Centro College, Dallas, TX – Objective Strategies
2013Berlin Becher Triennial, Berlin, Germany
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX – Texas Biennial
Aurora, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX (with RE Cox)
Dallas Biennial, online exhibition – DB13
Deep Ellum Windows, Dallas, TX – My My Misfire (as Apophenia Underground)
2012OMNI Hotel, Dallas, TX – Expanded Cinema, curated by Bart Weiss
Trickhouse.com, online exhibition – Humming Music / Grinding Teeth
T and P Train Station, Fort Worth, TX – In-Transit: Station Domination
Dallas Biennial, online exhibition – DB12
El Centro College, Dallas, TX – Suplex
500 Singleton, Dallas, TX – Bridged
2011Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA – Chain Letter
Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL – Return to Sender
Washington University, St. Louis, MO – Zinery
Orange Show, Houston, TX – Brick Oven Truck
TCU Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX – Art in the Metroplex
Gallery 76012, Ft. Worth, TX – 897 Square
UTA Gallery, Arlington, TX – MFA Summer Exhibition
Abandoned house, Dallas, TX – Living Amongst Others
Brickhouse Gallery, Dallas, TX – Guerilla Show
Calloway’s Nursery - Arlington, TX – Ecosynthetic
Tarrant County Community College (TCC), Ft. Worth, TX – Dada Day (performance/permanent outdoor installation)
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX – Wunderkammer
2010Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL
Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
RESIDENCIES
2022Achterhaus, Hamburg, Germany
2020Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2017Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, México
Power Station, Dallas, TX
2015Goss-Michael Foundation Artist Residency, Dallas, TX
Hillhouse Residency, Crumpler, NC
2013-2014CentralTrak Artist Residency, Dallas, TX
CURATORIAL
2020-presentCo-creator of CultureHoleTV, online TV show, with Gregory Ruppe
2016-2019Co-creator of Culture Hole, an art space in Dallas, TX, with Gregory Ruppe
2013-2014Co-creator of Apophenia Underground and Deep Ellum Windows, Dallas, TX, with Justin Ginsberg
GRANTS / HONORS / PRESENTATIONS
2022Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, Germany (artist talk)
2019Nominated for Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2018Best Art Space, D Magazine (Culture Hole)
National Academy of Sciences, DASER, Washington, D.C. (presentation/panel)
2016Special Support Grant, Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs
2015Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Micro-grant
Mastermind Award, Dallas Observer
2014Best New Dallas Art Movement, D Magazine (Deep Ellum Windows)
2013Dallas Museum of Art: Art Ball Prize
2010-2013Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Texas in Arlington
2012ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture, Honorable Mention
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
AT&T Corporate Collection, Dallas, TX
The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Significant private collections
SELECTED PRESS
https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/read-watch/articles/article/id/293
https://glasstire.com/2022/10/28/synaptic-notes-recent-exhibitions-in-dallas-and-houston/
http://www.newartexaminer.net/darren-jones-new-york-editor-talks-with-jeff-gibbons/
https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/best-dallas-art-breakout-artists-diy-culture-comeback/
https://glasstire.com/2014/09/25/one-mans-trash-some-thoughts-on-two-shows-in-dallas/
https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/5-art-exhibitions-to-see-this-weekend-7096357
https://badatsports.com/2014/its-a-dallas-day-leigh-a-arnold/
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2013/july/deep-ellum-dallas-hottest-art-scene/
https://sculpturemagazine.art/jeff-gibbons/
