Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). This year, Casteel’s first comprehensive monograph was published by Phaidon with texts by Legacy Russell, Katherine Brinson and Asma Naeem. Recent exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Field of view at the Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (2024; solo); The Studio Museum in Harlem (2025, 2017 - 2016), Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland (2025), Brooklyn Museum of Art (2024), National Portrait Gallery, London (2024), Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); St. Louis Art Museum, MO (2023); New Orleans Museum of Art, LA (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2021-2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2022); The Modern, Fort Worth, TX (2022); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2022); Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2022); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2021); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2021); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2021); Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2020); MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). In 2020, Casteel presented Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalogue including interviews and essays by Thelma Golden, Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, and Amanda Hunt. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze was presented at both the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of The Baayfalls, a 2017 painting depicting two Harlem street vendors, connecting public spaces of different neighborhoods across New York City.  Casteel’s solo exhibition entitled Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers is currently on view at Casey Kaplan, New York. Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021) and serves on the board of trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.