Gibson is in full production mode for his exhibition in the US Pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale, but that doesn’t mean he’s hiding in the studio. The artist showed his hypercolourful paintings and intricate textiles, which play through the artist’s Choctaw-Cherokee background with a queer identity, at Jordan Schnitzer Museum at Washington State University and at two US commercial galleries, Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York and Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. His touring exhibition from 2022 continued this year at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and he had work in 21 group shows across the US, and in the UK and Canada. This while maintaining his position as artist-in-residence at Bard College, where, with Arielle Twist, he produced a performance based on the Dionne Warwick anthem Don’t Make Me Over (1962). Enough? No: he did the set design for Justin Peck’s abstract ballet Copland Dance Episodes at the New York City Ballet and edited An Indigenous Present, a new 448-page survey of Native North American art, a present he is helping to define.