Justin Gibbens

(American, born 1975)

Justin Gibbens creates subversive zoological artworks. He uses images of non-human animals to “serve as cautionary tales and stand-ins for our anthropocentric selves.”

Gibbens is based in Thorp, Central Washington. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in drawing and painting from Central Washington University in Ellensburg and a Scientific Illustration Certificate from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also one of the founders of PUNCH, an artist collective (and a former gallery) that focuses on artists from rural Central Washington. When not is his studio, Gibbens spends his time spotting birds and chasing after reptilian inhabitants of the shrub-steppe.