Bibby Gignilliat is a California-based mixed media artist whose richly layered collages and totems transform billboard scraps, found paper, and personal ephemera into vibrant works that balance joyful instinct with deliberate non-attachment. A former software programmer, marketing executive, and founder of a national corporate cooking events company, Bibby Gignilliat walked away from a successful business in midlife to reclaim the creative practice she had abandoned after a teacher's critique silenced her at age ten.
Building each piece through layers of paint, torn paper, and street finds from Mexico City, Barcelona, and San Francisco alleys, she creates surfaces that feel simultaneously personal and universal — archives of interior life made tangible. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Bibby Gignilliat has exhibited at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco and the Triton Museum in Santa Clara.
What does it take to sell a company, walk back into an art class as a complete beginner, and spend a decade rebuilding a creative life from scraps and surrender?