Mark Thomas Gibson
(Born 1980, Miami, FL)

Bio
Mark Thomas Gibson received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. Gibson has most recently exhibited with M+B, (Los Angeles, USA), presenting a solo exhibition of 30+ drawings made in 2020 titled "Resting Space." He has also exhibited at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Fredericks & Freiser in New York and Loyal in Stockholm, and recently participated in the group shows "Life During Wartime" and "Woke!," Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa. In 2016, Gibson co-curated the traveling exhibition "Black Pulp!" with William Villalongo at 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art. The show examined evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016. The artist released his first book, "Some Monsters Loom Large" in 2016 with funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The book was recently re- issued in a second edition in partnership with International Print Center, New York. Gibson’s second book "Early Retirement" was released in 2017 with Edition Patrick Frey in Zurich and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mark Thomas Gibson is represented by Fredericks and Freiser, (New York, NY), M+B, (Los Angeles, CA) and Loyal, (Stockholm, Sweden). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Website
http://www.markthomasgibson.com/