Jeffrey Gibson will be the name on everybody’s lips in 2024 thanks to a bumper crop of upcoming exhibitions. The Colorado-born, Choctaw-Cherokee artist is kicking things off with a solo show at Stephen Friedman Gallery on 19 January before opening a second at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich in February, alongside having work in the Barbican Centre’s group exhibition, Unravel, opening in the same month. In April, Gibson will also be the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo pavilion at the Venice Biennale. If you don’t already recognise his electric-hued, mixed media works, you soon will.

Gibson’s geometric sculptures and paintings take cues from North American Indigenous aesthetics and craft. He uses artisanal beadwork, leatherwork and quilting to tell stories about subjects that have been hidden from view, while referencing everything from club culture, queer theory, politics and art history. Dreaming Of How it’s Meant To Be at Stephen Friedman Gallery shows the breadth and vibrancy of his work, while introducing a new series of mixed media pieces that are his most expressive to date. Gestural sweeps of paint, made with his own hands, counterpoint rigid graphic shapes and rich patterns, imbuing the works with a unique tension. We can’t wait to see them up close.