Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s work, spanning photography, video, writing, installation, and, most recently, video games, examines how things are depicted and our relationship—as both spectators and participants—to this media overload. His solo institutional exhibitions, performances, and screenings include The Kitchen, New York; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France; Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Swiss Institute, New York, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Jewish Museum, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Hammer Museum. He is represented by Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, and Magenta Plains, New York.

Huffman’s awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, and fellowships from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Lighthouse Works, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. He was the 2015–16 artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist, San Francisco/Paris; the Pierce & Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Tufts University Art Collection, Medford.

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