Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. His interdisciplinary practice spans video, photography, installation, and poetry, addressing themes of race, visibility, and media’s impact on perception. Educated at Bard College (BA), Brown University (MFA Literary Arts), and USC (MFA Studio Art), Huffman’s work critiques semiotic hierarchies through layered visuals and text.

Recent exhibitions include Control (2024, Anat Ebgi), The Double (2023, Magenta Plains), and Brief Emotion (2022, Frac Bretagne). His awards include fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Studio Museum in Harlem residency (2015–16). Huffman’s research explores digital media degradation and its sociocultural implications, often using transparencies, projections, and collages to evoke liminal spaces between meaning.

Publications include poetry collections Sleeper Hold (2015), James Brown Is Dead (2011), and 19 Names for Our Band (2007). His work is in collections at the MoMA, Hammer Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem. Huffman’s current projects investigate identity through meta-narratives and participatory installations.