The James Howell Foundation is a proud sponsor of the US Pavillion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

In a historic first, Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 60th International Art Exhibition, marking the only time in the American Pavilion’s more-than-90-year history that an Indigenous artist has done it solo.

Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and who is also of Cherokee descent, is known for vibrantly colored paintings, sculptures, and more that often incorporate text, some of it appropriated from pop music. At times, the work edges into abstraction, in an attempt to marry styles borrowed from Western modernism and Native American craft.