American, b. 1988, Baltimore, MD
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
Education
2020 Master of Fine Arts, The LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Baltimore, MD
Forthcoming
2025 Solo Exhibition, No Solace in the Shade, Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pa
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Language of Tears, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2023 I Can See Through Muddy Waters Dry Land, Easy Does It Curatorial Space, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Entre Nous, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Paris, France (article 1) (article 2)
2021 Sounds of Color, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Painted Matters: The Art of Jerrell Gibbs, The Galleries at CCBC, Dundalk, MD
Group Exhibitions
2024 The Wrong Sea, Dunes, Portland Maine
How do you want to see yourself, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy
2023 Friends and Lovers, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
That Which Compels Me So, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Black American Portraits, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2022 The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD
Art Basel, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art Basel, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Miami Beach
Art Basel Paris, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Paris, France
20 x 21 Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Art Basel , Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Switzerland
2021 Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2020 Tell Me A Tale, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
ZONAMACO, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
On the Verge: 25 New and Emerging Artists, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
2019 DISEMBODiMENT, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California
Our World, Eubie Blake Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Incubate This!, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Permutations, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
EXPO Chicago, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
KinShips, Gallery CA, Baltimore, Maryland
Red Lines, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Breaching The Margins, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
BLACKFACE: A Reclamation of Beauty, Power, and Narrative, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, Maryland
2018 Implicit Dimensions, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
7/8…9, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington DC
Mirror, Cardinal Space, Baltimore, Maryland
Raising Hands and Voices, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Past Tense,” Space Gallery, Portland Maine
2017 Washington Project for the Arts, Uline Arena, Washington DC
2016 Harbor Bank Collaboration, Harbor Bank, Baltimore, Maryland
Black Artists of DC: A Legacy of Excellence, The Gallery at Howard University University Blackburn Center, Washington DC
Art in the Hands of Men, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Fathers, Brothers, Sons, ICA Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2015 Baltimore Presents Visionary,” The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
Grants and Awards
2024 The Pew Arts and Heritage Grant
2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art
2018 Leslie King-Hammond Award
Roberta Polevoy Award
Artist Residencies
2019 Mare Residency, Baltimore, MD
Permanent Collections
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
US Capitol, Washington, DC
Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
X Museum, China, Beijing, Chaoyang
CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH
Bibliography
Casey Lesser, “A Major Gift from the Scantland Family Brings Leading Emerging Artists’ Works to the Columbus Museum of Art”. Artsy, June 15, 2021 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-major-gift-scantlandfamily-brings-leading-emerging-artists-works-columbus-museum-art
Maya Phillips, “August Wilson, American Bard”. T: The New York Times Style Magazine, December 3, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/t-magazine/august-wilson-ma-rainey.html?auth=link-dismissgoogle1tap
Isis Davis-Marks, “These Emerging Black Artists Are the Future of Figurate Painting”. Artsy, Feburary 11, 2020. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-emerging-black-artists-future-figurative-painting
Jenny E. Balisle, “MARGINS”. BALISLE BLOG, May 12, 2019. http://balisle.com/2019/05/12/margins/
*Angela N. Carroll, “Jerrell Gibbs Normalizes Black Innocence Through His Figurative Portraits”. Baltimore Magazine, December 13, 2018. https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/12/13/jerrell-gibbs-normalizes-black-innocence-through-hisfigurative-portraits
*Diana Budds, “The Black Artists + Designers Guild takes on the industry’s race problem”. CURBED, December, 4, 2018. https://www.curbed.com/2018/12/4/18124506/black-artists-designers-guild-diversity-inclusion
Lunch Ticket, “Spotlight: Hiding in plain sight”. September, 18, 2018. https://lunchticket.org/spotlight-hiding-in-plain-sight/
*Gabriella Souza, "The Cutting Room Floor Blog": 'All I had in me into one piece', December, 2, 2016. https://thecuttingroomfloor2016.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/all-i-had-in-me-into-one-piece/
City Paper, “Best of Baltimore 2016”, September 13, 2016. http://www.citypaper.com/bob/2016/artsandentertainment/bcpnews-best-optimistic-emergence-jerrellgibbs-20160913-story.html
Sarah Meehan, "The black male experience shown through art" The Baltimore Sun, June, 26. 2016.http://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=c6ffa6c9-ba63- 4b39-8eae-15e7e2ae5db8
Angela N. Carroll, “The Broken Rainbow": 'The paintings of Jerrell Gibbs in Fathers, Brothers, Sons at SpaceCamp,” BmoreArt, May, 20, 2016. http://bmoreart.com/2016/05/the-broken-rainbow.html
May Kim, Allie Linn, Brandon Buckson, “SCROLL 3: ON SITE”, April 11, 2016.
Ashley Smith, “Heart of a King” Young Black Artist, July 8, 2015. https://youngblackartists.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/jerrell-heart-of-a-king/