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Exhibition

The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson

September 2025–May 2026
Free with Museum admission

For the 2025 Genesis Facade Commission, Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will create four figurative sculptures—works that he refers to as ancestral spirit figures

Gibson’s project for The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade will be the sixth in a series of commissions for the historic exterior. The artist’s new works for the niches 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.

An interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the United States, Germany, and Korea, Gibson’s expansive body of work ranges from hard-edged abstract works to a rich practice of performance and filmmaking to significant work as artist convener and curator. Since the 2000s, Gibson’s work—which incorporates Indigenous identity and imagery—has consistently reimagined new possibilities for abstraction, the use of text, and queer culture, interconnecting these formal and conceptual interests. Notably, Gibson’s work has introduced a broad range of recurring Indigenous sources, material elements, and imagery while regularly offering a critique of the reductive ways in which Indigenous culture has been historically flattened and misappropriated.

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Major support is provided by Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang.

Additional support is provided by Sarah Arison, and Helen Lee-Warren and David Warren.

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The Genesis Facade Commission is made possible by a multiyear partnership with Genesis.

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Dates
September 2025–May 2026
Free with Museum admission
Blue background image with Pink Color font which reads, " Jeffrey Gibson" The Facade Commission