Fire Island Artist Residency

FIAR collaborates with celebrated LGBTQ artists, whose generosity provides the opportunity to continue doing the important work we do. To date, we have partnered with Leilah Babirye, Nayland Blake, Leidy Churchman, Anthony Cudahy, Jeffrey Gibson, Matt Connors, Nicole Eisenman, Jim Hodges, Ian Lewandowski, Ryan McGinley, Catherine Opie, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Mickalene Thomas, on a series of multiples, unique works, and series each produced exclusively for Fire Island Artist Residency. Thanks to the incredible generosity of these artists, the proceeds from the sale of these works underwrite the operating costs of our annual summer program and directly support the artists and community we serve each year. Thank you for collecting these incredible artists and supporting LGBTQ artists the world over.

Jeffrey Gibson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hudson, NY. He was the first Native American artist to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale in 2024. His artworks make reference to various aesthetic and material histories rooted in Indigenous cultures of the Americas, and in modern and contemporary subcultures. Gibson’s solo exhibitions include, When Fire Is Applied To A Stone It Cracks (2019), The Brooklyn Museum; The Anthropophagic Effect (2019), The New Museum, New York; Jeffrey Gibson, LIKE A HAMMER (2018), organized by the Denver Art Museum; This Is The Day (2018), organized by The Wellin Museum; Look How Far We’ve Come! (2017), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me, (2017), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City; A Kind of Confession (2016), Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah. Select group exhibitions include, The 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, NYC; Aftereffect (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Suffering from Realness (2019), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now (2018), Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR. Gibson’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.; National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; among many others. Gibson is a recipient of numerous awards, notably a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2019); Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Award (2015); and Creative Capital Foundation Grant (2005).

LEILAH BABIRYE
Born 1985, Uganda
Lives and works in New York
FIAR’15 Artist 

“Abambowa (Royal Guard Who Protects the King),” 2021. [On-going series]
Hand-sculpted glazed ceramic
Unique works
Signed and dated by the artist on the bottom

Gift of the artist, courtesy of Gordon Robichaux, NY and Stephen Friedman, London.
Special thanks to Sculpture Space NYC.

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