Creative Capital celebrates Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee), 2005 Creative Capital Awardee, who has made history this year as the first Indigenous artist to represent the US at the Venice Biennale. Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me, invites reflection on individual and collective identities through sculpture, painting, video, and multimedia installation, with the title of the exhibition referencing Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem “Ȟe Sápa.”

“When I’m thinking about objects made by Native people, historically, the circumstances they were living in, it’s counterintuitive to think that the thing to do would have been to make something beautiful. I realized they made spaces of freedom,” —Jeffrey Gibson, “Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow,” The New York Times