Mark Thomas Gibson’s personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist, a professor, a curator, and an American history buff.

These miriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through the language of painting, drawing, print, and sculpture, revealing a vision of America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.

Recent solo exhibitions include Here Ye, Hear Ye!!!, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton (2022); Whirlygig!, Sikkema & Jenkins Co., New York; and A Retelling, MOCAD, Detroit (both 2023). His work was included in Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, African American Museum, Philadelphia (2023). In 2016, Gibson with the artist William Villalongo, co-curated the exhibition Black Pulp! at 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, which examined evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through printed media and artworks. In 2022, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York.

Born in Miami in 1980, Mark Thomas Gibson lives in Philadelphia. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.

Photo Credit: Photo by Ryan Collerd, courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage