“Life makes no sense. Art makes even less.”

Joe Gibbons is a singular figure in the history of American experimental cinema. He is widely regarded for the incomparable, dryly humorous works that he began making in the mid-1970s. At the time, Gibbons was considered a pioneer of Super8 filmmaking, however he left this intimate home movie format behind in the late 1980s to work in 16mm, video and performance art.

His dynamic output has been featured in four Whitney Biennial exhibitions  and he is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, the Creative Capital Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Gibbons has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pratt Institute and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2010.