Galen Gibson-Cornell
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Galen Gibson-Cornell was born and raised in Maryville, Missouri, in a family of classical musicians. In his art practice he demonstrates a professional and cultural fascination with cities, focusing on creative projects in Berlin, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Venice, Italy; and Novi Sad, Serbia, among others.
In 2013 Gibson-Cornell finished his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, and for the academic year 2013-14 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Budapest, Hungary, where he was a scholar at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His work there was formative for his exploration into street-posters and other urban ephemera, as he focused on creating artworks using political campaign posters as subject matter.
Since 2017 Gibson-Cornell has lived and worked in Philadelphia. Galen’s work is currently represented by Bertrand Productions Gallery in Philadelphia, TW Fine Art in West Palm Beach and New York City, and David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and Nashville.
His work has exhibited across the United States and internationally, most notably featured in the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Poster House Museum (NYC), and the U.S. Embassy to the Republic of Togo. His work is in several notable collections, including 21C Museum Hotels, Microsoft, and the University of Texas Medical center.
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