Sander Gibson was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Having developed a passion for art early in life, he entered East Carolina University in Greenville, NC as an art major, attended Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, FL and was awarded a BFA in Painting and Printmaking at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Additionally he undertook coursework at the Lyme Academy of Art, Old Lyme, CT and NC State University’s School of Design for Architecture.

Sander has taught classes in painting, life-drawing, etching, and sculpture. He participated in the Third Century Artist Program of the North Carolina Arts Council. Besides one-man exhibitions, his work has been included in the North Carolina Annual Artists Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Annual Artists Exhibition at the Fayetteville Museum of Art, & the Raleigh Fine Arts Society Exhibition at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. His work is included in private and corporate collections in this country, the West Indies, England and the Mid East. After a decade and a half sabbatical, Sander has returned to his other visual art-love photography, turning a painter’s eye to the camera.

Sander Gibson lives with his wife and daughter in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.