Past
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Overture
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum Of Art 23 Jan - 7 Apr 2025 Overture offers a powerful invitation to reflect on current events and reimagine how we can collectively drive systemic change in pursuit of the common good. The exhibition opens with a selection from Gibson's Town Crier series, an archive of collages that feature a fictional character who recounts current events happening... Read more -
Lineage
The Library Company of Philadelphia 15 Oct 2024 - 17 Jan 2025 Through four large scale paintings, Mark Thomas Gibson’s Lineage examined the proposition of “the future of humanity” proposed by Samuel Jennings’ 1792 painting Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks). The paintings were informed from Library Company holdings depicting the... Read more -
Here Ye, Hear Ye!!!
Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton 27 Oct - 23 Nov 2023 HERE YE, HEAR YE!!! , is an exhibition of new work created by Mark Thomas Gibson during the course of his 2021-22 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Gibson's work engages satire to depict the subtext of American politics and life. The exhibition features collages, paintings and posters, all using varying degrees... Read more -
A Retelling
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 29 Sep 2023 - 4 Feb 2024 Americans are constantly inundated with information. We are tethered to the information superhighway, where various media platforms determine how we define our cultural values. When it comes to themes related to race, the opaque nature in which individuals decide what’s right or wrong, fact or fiction, is often subjective and... Read more
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Their Failure is Our Reward at Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America
African American Museum in Philadelphia 23 Mar 2023 - 3 Mar 2024 Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America is a groundbreaking exhibition that will feature new art installations spread across multiple galleries at both institutions. Visitors will see how each artist engaged with the theme of the rising sun in a time when perspectives about human rights, equality, free speech,... Read more -
WHIRLYGIG!
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins 3 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 Mark Thomas Gibson approaches the chaos and contradictions of America's present as an ever-evolving condition of its own past. Through painting and drawing, his imagery engages the traditions of history painting and caricature, emphasizing the intrinsic surrealities of American culture and its tendency towards mythologizing itself. Gibson employs the aesthetics... Read more -
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
M+B 23 Oct - 4 Dec 2021 M+B is pleased to announce Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood , an exhibition of new works by Mark Thomas Gibson. This is Gibson's second solo exhibition with the gallery, and will run from October 23 through December 4, 2021. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 23, from... Read more -
Resting Space
M+B 13 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 M + B is pleased to announce representation of Mark Thomas Gibson. To mark the occasion, the gallery is proud to present Resting Space , an online exhibition of new works by Gibson that are a timely response to current global and national events. Typically, in a Foundation 2-D course... Read more
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Mark Thomas Gibson, curated by Jamillah James
M+B at the Armory Show 5 - 8 Mar 2020 Gibson’s personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor, an American history buff and comic book aficionado. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of painting and the comic book vernacular, revealing a... Read more -
The Dangerous One
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery 5 Jan - 8 Mar 2019 In the fall of 2018 I began teaching at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. When I arrived in Philadelphia I was contacted by Sid Sachs, a notable curator in Philadelphia, and was offered an exhibition at The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The work in this show was the... Read more -
Gauntlet
Loyal Gallery 19 Apr 2018 - 19 May 2019 GAUNTLET is Mark Thomas Gibson’s first solo exhibition in Europe. Gibson is highly regarded in a new wave of figuration. Following his solo exhibition at Fredericks and Freiser in New York this Fall, Gibson was highlighted in Frieze Magazine’s article “Acts of Recognition: A new wave of figurative painting in... Read more
