He is the 2021 recipient of both the “Mondes Nouveaux”, and the Alternative recording and broadcast grants from the Ministry of Culture of Paris. Recent works include his first solo Museum exhibition in the U.S. From Dust to gold at the Telfair Museums in Savanah, Illuminate Coral Gables in Miami, 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 travelled to the Portland Museum of Art, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and the Wallach Gallery New York. Select works also 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 contest for the islands of Martinique and Saint-Martin.

In 2016, he is 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+Tobego 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.

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.