Alex Gibson (b. 1994, Barbados)
Barbados / Vancouver, BC
Education
2024 Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia
2015 Bachelor of Media Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
2012 Associate Degree of Visual Arts, Barbados Community College
Solo exhibitions
2025 A hound marks its spot, Wil Aballe, Vancouver, BC
2022 Untitled Garden, Capture Photography Festival, curated by Emmy Lee Wall and Chelsea Yuill, Vancouver, BC
Duo exhibitions
2022 Play Thing, with Desi Rekrut (PM), Number 3 Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Group exhibitions
2029 (Forthcoming) like waves crashing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2026 One Hundred Artists Deep, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, BC, curated by Andrea Valentine-Lewis
2026 Emerging Digital Artist Award, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2026 Emerging Digital Artist Award, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, ON
2025 Poetics of Light: Experiments in Photography, aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB
2024 NOW, NEVER, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2024 Aqueous Nerve, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023 Fields of View (online exhibition), Public Access Memories, The Wrong Biennale
2023 è ora di alzarsi, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2023 In Search of Queertopias, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, curated by Nathan Clark
2023 MakeShift, AHVA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
2022 Liturgical Heat, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
2022 NADA Curated: Reset, New Art Dealers Alliance, presented by Wil Aballe Art Projects, curated by Maria Elena Ortiz
2022 Non-Traditional, Caribbean Fine Arts Fair, Exchange Interactive Centre, Bridgetown, Barbados
2021 Reality, Embassy of Argentina, Bridgetown, Barbados
2021 Non-Traditional, Caribbean Fine Arts Fair, Art Splash Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados, curated by Zoe Osborne
2020 Quid Tum?, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Wil Aballe Art Projects, Toronto, ON
2020 Art Toronto, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
2020 Art Party!, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC, curated by Jonny Sopotiuk
2020 all this time, Number 3 Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2020 in my time of quarantine (online exhibition), Vancouver, BC, curated by Simon Hauck
2020 Mahogany Culture, Clement Payne Cultural Centre, Bridgetown, Barbados, curated by Zoe Osborne
2019 The Magic Flooot 3, Tomato Mouse, Brooklyn, NY
2019 BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC
2018 LOOP Show, RBC Media Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2017 water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
Residencies
2024 NOW, NEVER residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023 Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy, mentored by Hilary Lloyd
Publications
2025 A hound marks its spot (outside of time), Wil Aballe, Vancouver, BC
2024 è ora di alzarsi, Milano Printmakers, Milan, Italy
Conferences
2024 Queer Grievance: Acts of Griefing in Post-Disciplinary Practice; chair Morris Fox; Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Western University, London, ON
2023 Queer and Horny: Making, Writing, Theorizing and Exhibiting Queer Art; chair Christopher Jacques Lacroix; Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Banff Cultural Centre for Art and Creativity, Banff, AB
Selected bibliography
2025 Lacroix, Christopher. “The Making of a Queer Image: in conversation with artist Alex Gibson”, Public Parking Journal. Online
2024 Tojanowski, Julia. “Never an Island, Entire of Itself”, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Exhibition text for Aqueous Nerve
Writing
2025 Exhibition text, “Scent Memory Warm Citrus”, Sarah Haider; Group show: Impos(s)able Impositions: UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023 Exhibition text, Ani Schulze: The Convent of Pleasure, COMBINE Art Fair, Vancouver, BC
2023 Exhibition text, “The Opalescent Oracular Bubble”, Dion Smith-Dokkie: sunbeams softer forever, Fort Gallery, Langley, BC
2022 Exhibition text, “The Advanced Soul”, Dion Smith-Dokkie; Group show: Jelena and the Internet Celebrity Cat, CSA Space, Vancouver, BC
2022 Exhibition text, “DerDieDas/TheTheThe”, Jeff Hallbauer: DerDieDas, Das Esszimmer, Bonn, Germany
Artist Talks, Screenings, Events
2026 Artist talk, in conversation with Andrea Valentine-Lewis and Chantal Gibson, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, BC
2025 Artist talk in conversation with Christopher Lacroix, Wil Aballe, Vancouver, BC
2024 Artist talk, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2024 Publication launch and artist talk, è ora di alzarsi, Ordent, Milan, Italy
2024 Screening, Courtyard, Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Centre for Culture in Lublin, Poland; Fresh Milk, Barbados
2024 Screening, Familial Moments, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Vancouver, BC
2023 Artist talk, Slide Night Vol. II, Gallery 881, Vancouver, BC
2022 Artist talk, Artist response to Michelle Bui’s ‘Mutable Materialism’, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Artist talk, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC
2020 Screening, Flash Collective, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC, convened by Avram Finkelstein
Awards & Grants
2026 Canada Council for the Arts, Artistic Creation grant
2025 EQ Bank, Emerging Digital Artist Award
2023 University of British Columbia, B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship,
2022 University of British Columbia, Roloff Beny Foundation Scholarship (Photography)
2022 University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
Collections
Rennie Collection
EQ Bank