Alex Gibson (b. 1994, Barbados) is a Barbadian Canadian artist based between Barbados and Vancouver, BC. Rooted in personal experiences of queer migration, their interdisciplinary practice explores how built environments shape perception and situate relationships between bodies, space, and senses of belonging. With a particular focus on images and their conflicting truths, Gibson traces queer presence across the unstable boundaries between image, object, and site. These spaces of instability become productive openings for imagining forms of embodied knowledge which unsettle fixed meaning. Recurring themes in their work include the garden, domestic thresholds, geological formations, and challenging dominant photographic representation associated with islands and the Caribbean.

Gibson’s work has been exhibited in Barbados, Canada, Italy, Poland, and the United States of America, and has been acquired by the Rennie Collection. They have completed residencies at Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, Italy) and Access Gallery (Vancouver). Their writing has been published in Canada, Germany, and Italy. Gibson holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.