We invite you to join the Des Moines Art Center in welcoming artist Jeffrey Gibson as the featured speaker of our annual Fingerman Lecture series. Gibson is an American?Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee?painter and sculptor.
Gibson has been awarded the 2025 Genesis Façade Commission for the Metropolitan Museum Art, which will be unveiled in early September. The artist’s new works will draw upon his longstanding and highly developed iconography, one built upon a dynamic visual language that fuses Indigenous identity and imagery with abstraction, patterning, materiality, and text.
Last year, Gibson represented the United States at the?Venice Biennale, where he is the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the?American pavilion.
The Fingerman Lecture series is made possible through generous gifts by Lois and the late Dr. Louis Fingerman. “Jeffrey Gibson” is the 35th installment in the series.
