Daniel Gibson b. 1977

Using the desert landscapes and seasides of Southern and Baja California as their fertile ground, his surrealistic scenes are populated with lush flora that take on an anthropomorphic quality. Butterflies, flowers, ocotillos, and desert mountains become proxies for the people navigating the desert, visualizing the narratives of migration without drawing on essentialist tropes. For the artist, his works are as much autobiographical as they are collective stories that document moments of struggle and celebration that would otherwise be lost to time. 

Daniel Gibson (b. 1977 Yuma, AZ; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Almine Rech, New York and Paris; Brant Timonier, Palm Beach, FL; New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA; Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA; LAX Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Mexicali Rose, Baja, Mexico. Recent group exhibitions include the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Casa Santa Ana, Panama City; MUSEA K11, Hong Kong; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA; and BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA. His works have been written about by the LA Times, WideWalls, Juxtapoz, and Brooklyn Rail and are in the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, TX, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, and the public collection of the Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China. 

Gibson’s work is currently on view in his solo exhibition Devil’s Wind at Marquez Art Projects in Miami, Florida.