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Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw and Cherokee) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work explores identity and integrates Native American history and queer culture through narratives, materials, abstract forms, and motifs. Though trained as a painter, Gibson began incorporating materials and techniques that deliberately reference his heritage around 2010. His work includes beaded punching bags, paintings, sculptures, flags, and videos, often featuring geometric patterns and vibrant colors. Sculpture, moving image, and sound have also become an integral aspect of his practice.

Gibson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago he also worked as a research assistant on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for the Field Museum, a formative experience that fostered an ongoing interest in questions of ownership and notions of cultural translation. Gibson received a Master of Arts in painting from the Royal College of Art, with funding from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

Gibson has had numerous solo and two-person shows throughout the United States, and has been part of group exhibitions at venues such as the Peabody Essex Museum; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Denver Art Museum; Mass MoCA; Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art; Jersey City Museum; Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe; and National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York. His work can be found in public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis; and Denver Art Museum.

In 2012, he became an artist-in-residence at Bard College and established his studio. Gibson has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and the Aspen Art Museum and was selected to represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale.