David Gumbs

David Gumbs is an award winning interdisciplinary artist from the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin, based in Martinique.

Recent works include his recent installation of Ethnospirits at the Fort Louis in Saint Martin (March 2023) then at the Domaine Fonds St. Jacques (Martinique 2023). His first solo Museum exhibition in the U.S. From Dust to gold took place at the Telfair Museums in Savannah (2021). Other notable works include: Illuminate Coral Gables in Miami (2021); Tod Town Expo in Shanghai; the Currents New Media digital festival in Santa Fe and the touring exhibition Relational Undercurrents which is a major survey of Latin American and Caribbean Art in the United States. The show opened at MOLAA Los Angeles and has traveled to the Portland Museum of Art, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and the Wallach Gallery New York. Selected works have also been shown at the TVE Caribbean Visual Exchange in Melbourne, Australia. In 2017, Gumbs was part of the Prizm Art Fair during Miami Art week, the Jamaica Biennial and won the National Street Art competition for the islands of Martinique and Saint-Martin.

In 2016, he was awarded the Davidoff Art Initiative Residency in Beijing China, where he exhibited at the World Art Museum / China Millennium Monument. He also exhibited in Digital at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Other exhibitions include Video Islands, New York and the opening ceremony of the Memorial Acte Museum, Guadeloupe; the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, the Transforming Spaces, Bahamas; Beep Bop Boop New Media Festival, Florida, the BIAC Biennial – Martinique; Art Bémao New Media, Guadeloupe; Happy Island Project Biennial, Aruba and at the prestigious Latitudes, Paris City Hall, France. He continues to participate in numerous new media festivals in Europe and in France. David Gumbs is a faculty member at the CCA visual arts school where he teaches Interactive Media, Motion Design, and Mix-media Design since 2009.