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THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)
Jeffrey Gibson
THIS BURNING WORLD (2026), adapts stills from Gibson’s 2022 video installation of the same name, originally commissioned by ICA SF and presented at the institution in 2022. Drawing on footage captured in upstate New York and during site visits to California’s Bay Area, Gibson reconfigures stills from the original 60-foot-wide video installation into a tapestry-like field guided by pattern and rhythm. The work registers the precarity of humanity’s relationship to the natural world while insisting on art’s capacity to produce spaces of collective attention, in which reflection, encounter, and civic imagination can take form.
“Indigenous kinship philosophies provided the conceptual and philosophical framework for my 2022 presentation at ICA SF, from which this installation finds its foundation. These perspectives acknowledge the elements of our natural environments as our equal ancestors, living relatives, and as extensions of our own minds and bodies. When we damage or treat the land without regard for its own sustainable well being, we are in turn hurting and damaging ourselves and disregarding our own well being, safety, and health.”
— Jeffrey Gibson, Artist
Jeffrey Gibson, rendering of THIS BURNING WORLD, 2026, vinyl facade on the Mission Street side of the former Bloomingdale’s building at the San Francisco Centre. Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio. Section 1/3.
Jeffrey Gibson, rendering of THIS BURNING WORLD, 2026, vinyl facade on the Mission Street side of the former Bloomingdale’s building at the San Francisco Centre. Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio. Section 2/3.
Jeffrey Gibson, rendering of THIS BURNING WORLD, 2026, vinyl facade on the Mission Street side of the former Bloomingdale’s building at the San Francisco Centre. Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio. Section 3/3.
Jeffrey Gibson (American, b. 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and convener celebrated for his work in painting, installation, video, and performance. For over two decades, he has examined how language, pattern, and music construct meaning, synthesizing Indigenous and Western traditions through vibrant color, complex patterning, and layered sound. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson represented the U.S. at the 2024 Venice Biennale with his acclaimed exhibition the space in which to place me, which made its U.S. debut at The Broad in Los Angeles in May 2025. In June 2025 he unveiled a site-specific installation at Kunsthaus Zurich. Gibson was selected for the Metropolitan Museum’s 2025 Genesis Facade Commission and his monumental bronze sculptures will be on view through June 2026. His work is held in major collections including MoMA, the Whitney, and the National Gallery of Art. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley and is artist-in-residence at Bard College.
Presenting support for THIS BURNING WORLD is provided by the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation (DDC) and Power Station. Major support provided by the Henderson Family Foundation and LYRA Art Foundation. Community support provided by Pamela and David Hornik, and Wayee Chu and Ethan Beard. Additional project support provided by Yerba Buena Partnership.
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