Mark Thomas 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.

Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by Loyal in Stockholm. In 2016, he co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo; in 2024 he curated the group exhibition Edge of Echoes at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Gibson has released two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). In 2025, Gibson’s first monograph will be published by JRP Editions in conjunction with his exhibition, Overture, at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College, (Collegeville, PA).

Gibson has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency; he has been a MacDowell fellow twice. In the summer of 2023 he was an Efroymson Family Fund Visiting Artist at Ox-Bow School of Art and in the summer of 2025 he will be an artist-in-residence at Pilchuck Glass School. He has been awarded a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, (Philadelphia, PA), a Hodder Fellowship from Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ), a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

Gibson’s most recent solo exhibitions include Overture (The Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 2025) Lineage (The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2024), Whirligig! (Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, 2023), and A Retelling (MOCAD, Detroit, MI, 2023).

Selected Interviews:
Sound and Vision Podcast, Episode 455, conversation with Brian Alfred, December 26, 2024.
Condition Report by William Powhida. The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Winter 2022. Chaos is the Season by William Corwin. Art Papers, “Corruption,” 2021.
Mark Thomas Gibson + Mario Moore in Conversation, On the occasion of NADA’s fundraising print edition by Gibson, 2021.
Brooklyn Rail Weekend Journal #26: Mark Thomas Gibson, 2020.
The Opening Response: Mark Thomas Gibson by Josseline Black-Barnett for Umbigo Magazine. 2020.
Mark Thomas Gibson + Cal Siegel in Conversation, Matthew Brown Los Angeles Podcast, 2020.
Mark Thomas Gibson’s Early Retirement | Interview with Patrick Frey of Edition Patrick Frey, 2020.
Mark Gibson’s Good Kind of Trouble | Live at the Armory Show with Radio Juxtapoz, 2020.
Mark Thomas Gibson on Painting, Drawing, History, Teaching, and moving to Philadelphia | Artblog Radio with Roberta Fallon, 2019.
Mark Thomas Gibson on the Political Climate | Bloomberg News, 2018.
Comics Out of Chaos, Juxtapoz Magazine, 2017.
Some Monsters Loom Large, Huffpost Interview by Ridley Howard, 2017.
Sifting Through the Madness, Foundations Magazine, 2014.

Selected Reviews
What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh The Dream of Democracy by Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times, March 23, 2023.
Mark Thomas Gibson’s Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere by John Yau, Hyperallergic, 2023.
Mark Thomas Gibson: WHIRLYGIG! by William Corwin, Brooklyn Rail, 2022.
Resting Space: The Prophetic Works of Mark Thomas Gibson by Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz, 2020.
Acts of Recognition by David Geers, Frieze Magazine. November/December 2017.
Mark Thomas Gibson: Early Retirement by William Corwin, Brooklyn Rail. 2017.

Publications  
THIS IS AMERICA, curated by Mike Gessner in partnership with Albertz Benda Gallery, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, DE.
rethinking painting: The 50th Anniversary of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, by Joan Waltemath.
Drawing 20/20, Gladstone Gallery, Edited by Miciah Hussey, Isaac Alpert and Sarah Willis.
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists. The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, 2020.
Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art.The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. 2018.