His practice honors individuals and communities who have preserved their dignity and traditions despite systemic erasure, situating his work within art histories that have long excluded Native artists. In 2024, Gibson made history as the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
His work invites viewers to reflect on life’s complexities and the emotional landscapes that shape our existence. In Queen of the Night (Koreatown) , 2023, Min explores cultural identity and personal journey within Koreatown, capturing both the resilience and isolation of community while continuing his exploration of self-expression.
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990, New York, lives and works in New York)
LaToya Hobbs (b. 1983, Little Rock, Arkansas, lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland)
Joiri Minaya works across video, installation, and performance, often utilizing botanical and landscape imagery to reclaim agency and visibility. In works such as Away from Prying Eyes , Irreducible Convergence , and Shedding (all 2020), she explores identity, cultural social spaces, and hierarchies by incorporating digitally collaged figures from her 2017 Containers performance. These camouflaged female figures wear bodysuits adorned with tropical imagery, highlighting the complex ties between nature and femininity, idealized bodies, and the exoticization of Caribbean women. Minaya’s work challenges stereotypes while investigating the ways visibility and representation intersect. Recently, these pieces were included in Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility , an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, that featured works with obscured or hidden figures, positioning them at the threshold of perception.
LaToya Hobbs is a painter and printmaker known for her large-scale portraits that center on Black womanhood, family, labor, and care. Often depicting friends and family, her work uses relief printmaking as a mode of empowerment—carving away at a matrix to leave a raised image, where the process itself becomes a metaphor for removing negativity and stereotypes to reveal an authentic self. In portraits such as …and then, she realized she was enough (2019) and Prosper: to do well, succeed or thrive (2019), Hobbs foregrounds Black figures with bold presence, rendering them in striking black and white against vibrant, repeated patterns. Through her practice, she reclaims representation, offering a powerful vision of self-worth, visibility, and cultural affirmation.
Laura Lima (b. 1971, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Ken Gun Min (b. 1976, Seoul, South Korea, lives and works in Los Angeles, California)
Laura Lima employs elements of abstraction—line, shape, and volume—to create surprising juxtapositions between objects and spaces. She reinvents the viewer’s encounter with form through cut shapes that reveal geometric patterns and draped cloth that guides movement across the surface, suggesting layers, as seen in Anonimo (Anonymous) (2016). Through these elements, Lima skillfully explores perception and human behavior while crafting a unique and immersive aesthetic experience.
Ken Gun Min’s artistic practice blends vibrant color, emotional depth, and narrative complexity to explore themes of identity, culture, and the human experience. His large-scale mixed-media paintings juxtapose beauty and unease, capturing fragile moments before destruction. Drawing from his experiences as a queer Korean immigrant in the U.S., Min navigates the tension between utopian ideals and dystopian realities.
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