The multimedia artist is known for incorporating a Native American perspective into legacies of modernism and craft that define today’s cultural foundations.

Jeffrey Gibson, a multimedia artist who challenges the absence of Native American practices in visual culture, will represent the United States at the next edition of the Venice Biennale.

He is one of the first Indigenous artists to represent the country at the Biennale, according to organizers with the State Department who selected Gibson for what is generally considered the art world’s version of the Olympics.

A correction was made on  July 27, 2023: An earlier version of this article, relying on information from the commissioners of the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, misattributed a distinction to a planned installation by Jeffrey Gibson, an artist of Cherokee descent. The Hopi artist Fred Kabotie and other Native Americans represented the United States at the Biennale in a 1932 group exhibition; it is not the case that Gibson will be the first Indigenous person to do so with his installation in 2024.