JORDAN CASTEEL

Lives and works in the Catskill Mountain region, NY and Harlem, NY

1989 Born, Denver, CO


EDUCATION

2014   Yale University, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Printmaking

2011    Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Major: Studio Art

2010         Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Cortona, IT

Merit Stipend Recipient


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Project: Jordan Casteel, Recent Landscapes, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2022           In Bloom, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

African Marigold, Píece Unique, Paris, FR

2021         There is a Season, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK

2020          Within Reach, New Museum, New York, NY

2019          The Baayfalls, High Line Art, New York, NY

The Practice of Freedom, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; traveled to: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2017           Nights in Harlem, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC  

2015           Brothers, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY

2014           Visible Man, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY

The Gaze, The Study, Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, curated by Ekow Eshun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; traveling to The Box, Plymouth, UK, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2023 Kindred Worlds:The Priscila and Alvin Hudgins Collection, Hudson River Museum, New York

Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York 

Femme Noire, blackpuffin, Wa Na Wari, and Seattle Art Museum, Central District, Seattle, WA

In Our Eyes: Women’s, Non-Binary, and Trans Perspectives From the Collection, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL

In New York, Thinking of You, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; traveling to: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Schirn Kunstalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Toronto

Rear View, LGDR, New York, NY

2022         Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post Truth, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Fashioning America: Grit to Glamor, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Women Painting Women, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, FL

Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2021           Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; traveled to Spelman College of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; Memphis
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA 

Crystal Bridges at 10, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, collection display, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Multiple Voices/Multiple Stories, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

The Obama Portraits, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

A Face Like Mine, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

and i will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

The Human Body, curated by Karel Schampers, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY

Where the threads are worn, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Rituals of Resilience, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Bodywork: Discomfort and Existence, Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Lombardy, IT

Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

2020         You Are Beautiful the Way You Are, an initiative by Modou Dieng and Djibril Drame, Blackpuffin, Dakar, SN

Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum of Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Uptown Triennial 2020, Wallach Art gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY

50 Artists: Art on the Grid, Public Art Fund, New York, NY

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA;  traveled to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Frye Art  Museum, Seattle, WA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Tell Me Your Story, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, NL 

2019            Side by Side, curated by Veronica Kessenich, Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA

Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY; traveled to Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx NY, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago IL, Lehigh Art College, Bethlehem PA, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California Davis, Davis CA, Vicky Myrhen Gallery at Denver University, Denver CO

Every Day: Selections from the Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA

Harlem: in Situ, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Trance, curated by Albert Oehlen, Aishti Foundation, Antelias, LB

She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, NY       

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; traveled to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI

2018           One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Both, and, Stevenson, Cape Town, SA     

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

2017          Regarding the Figure, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

The Half-Life of Love, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA

March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY

Occupancies, 808 Gallery, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA

Man Alive, Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Brussels, BE

2016          Do You See Me?, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

Tenses: Artist in Residence 2015-16, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Intimisms, James Cohan, New York, NY

Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, HOME, Manchester, UK

Learning to See Color, Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver School of Art, Denver, CO

2015           Thats On Me, Paris Blues, Harlem, NY

Color II: Identity and Society, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Slo Jamz, Jessie Edelman Studio, Brooklyn, NY

2014           Sargent's Daughters, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

13 Artists, 24/6.106.353.v.1 Alternative Space, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2013          For ED: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad and Lass, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Second-Year Graduate Student Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2012          First-Year Graduate Student Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Celebrating the Culture of African-American Art, A Brookfield Invitational Exhibition at the Republic Plaza, Denver, CO

2011           Yasan: 100 Year of Womyn’s Struggle Ceremony and Sword, at Sellars Project Space, Denver, CO

CIAO: I Direttori, at Terminus 100, Atlanta, GA

Collage Arts Colloquium, Dalton Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA


AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2024 John Koch Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2023 Honorary Doctorate, DePauw University, Indiana

2022         Time 100 Next, class of 2022

2021          MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, class of 2021

Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence Award, Rutgers University

The New York Women’s Foundation Honoree

2020        Agnes Scott College 2021 Outstanding Young Alumni

HOPE, Front Cover, Vogue September 2020 Issue

Rob Report, Best of the Best, class of 2020

Honoree for the Heritage Hall of Fame, Induction Class of 2020, East High School, Denver, CO

2019         Hirshhorn Gala Artist Honoree, New York, NY

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Gala Inaugural Artist Honoree, Palo Alto, CA

130th Commencement Speaker, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Challenge Coin recipient presented by Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Denver, CO

2018          Forbes, 30 under 30 class of 2019

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Painting Finalist, New York, NY

2016          Sharpe-Walentas, Studio Program, DUMBO, NY

2015          Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-In-Residence, Harlem, NY

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Process Space, Governor's Island, NY

Yaddo, Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY  

2013          Gloucester Painting Prize Recipient, Yale School of Art

2011           Dalton Art Gallery Award, Decatur, GA


SELECT PRESS

Fortini, Amanda, Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?, The New York Times, February 28, 2024

Lee, Shannon, The group forging a community of color upstate, Times Union, February 22, 2024

Met Museum editors, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Elects Five New Trustees—Gerrard Bushell, Jordan Casteel, Yan Huo, Pablo Legorreta, and Steve Stoute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Brodsky, Alexandra, Jordan Casteel’s Love Languages, Departures Magazine, October 16, 2023

Scholastic editors, Q&A with Jordan Casteel, This Painter tells Scholastic Art how and why she makes portraits, Scholastic Art, Vol.54, No.1, September 2023

Apollo 2023 Judges, Apollo 40 under 40 USA, Apollo, September 25, 2023

Patterson, Sara Elise, Jordan Casteel: The Acclaimed Painter of People — and Now Plants, Kinfolk, Issue 48, Summer 2023

Aperture Editors, Endnote: Jordan Casteel, Aperture, Issue 250, Spring 2023

Time editors, Time 100 Next 2022, Time Magazine, September 28, 2022

Yau, John, Jordan Casteel Won’t Rest On Her Laurels, Hyperallergic, September 22, 2022

Krznarich, Megan Wilson, Fleshing Out The Canon: Women Painting Women at Fort Worth, Glasstire, September 6, 2022

Garcia, Sandra E, Artist Jordan Casteel Thinking in her Studio, T Magazine, April 21, 2022

Sanders, Jasmine, EJ Hill and Jordan Casteel Teach Us How To Paint, Interview Magazine, March 23, 2022

Chembalest, Robin The Stories of Many Lives: MacArthur Winning Painter Jordan Casteel ‘14MFA Talks About Her Studio, Yale Alumni Magazine, April/May 2022

Gay, Roxanne, Where Artist Jordan Casteel Sees Herself Going, The Cut, February 14, 2022

Hussein, Nimco Kulmiye, Jordan Casteel Finds Beauty in the Fleeting Commonplace, Frieze,  November 1, 2021

Bunn, Curtis, MacArthur names 11 Black ‘genius grant’ winners, NBC news, October 6, 2021

MacArthur Foundation editors, 2021 MacArthur Fellows, MacArthur Foundation, September 2021

Casteel, Jordan, Cover, TIME Magazine, May 2021

Battaglia, Andy, The ARTnews Accord: Faith Ringgold & Jordan Casteel Talk About the Living History of Harlem and Painting in the Midst of Protest, ARTnews, September 15 2020

Casteel, Jordan, Cover, Vogue, August 2020

Steinhauer, Jillian, Portraits That More Than Meet The Eye,” The New York Times, April 29, 2020

Rosen, Miss, Celebrating Our Essential Humanity in the Paintings of Jordan Casteel, Document Journal, April 15, 2020

Dafoe, Taylor, ‘When I See These Paintings, I See Myself’: Artist Jordan Casteel on How She Puts Herself Into Her Celebrated Portraits of Everyday People, Artnet News, February 2, 2020

Lescaze, Zoe, Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away, The New York Times, February 14, 2020

Sargent, Antwaun, Why an Alice Neel Painting Is Stuck in This Artist’s Psyche, The New York Times Style Magazine, May 28, 2019

Anderson, Corinne, Jordan Casteel’s Paintings Makes Everyday People Shine In Her First Solo Show At Denver Art Museum, 303 Magazine, February 1, 2019

Kazanjian, Dodie, In Her First Solo Museum Show, Jordan Casteel’s Humanizing Portraits Get Even Closer, Vogue Magazine, January 15, 2019 

Sheets, Hilarie M. Jordan Casteel comes home with a show at the Denver Art Museum, The Art Newspaper, December 13, 2018

Forbes editors, 30 under 30 Class of 2019: Jordan Casteel, Forbes, November 2018

Donohue, Katy, Jordan Casteel on What It’s Like to Make People Really See Someone, Whitewall Magazine, May 4, 2018

Wheeler, Andre-Naquian, Jordan Casteel’s Harlem Portraits Shine a Magical Light on Black Experience, i-D Magazine, March 23, 2018

Felsenthal, Julia, Jordan Casteel is Making You Look, Vogue, February 27, 2018

Simmons, William J., 30 Young Under 35: 30 Young Artists to Watch in 2018, Cultured Magazine, Winter 2017

Casteel, Jordan, Cover, Frieze, November 2017

Noor, Tausif, Jordan Casteel, Artforum, Fall 2017 

D’Arcy, David, In New Portraits, Jordan Casteel Makes Eye Contact With the Men of Harlem, New York Observer, September 27, 2017

Herriman, Kat, Painting Portraits of Black Men Using The Female Gaze, Interview Magazine, August 11, 2017

Melby Clinton, Leah, Jordan Casteel: On the Power of Art Right Now, Elle Magazine, March 13, 2017

Kaack, Nicole, Jordan Casteel: in Conversation With Nicole Kaack, NYAQ, December 20, 2016 

Langmuir, Molly, 15 Women Artists Who Are changing Their World - And Ours, Elle Magazine, November 15, 2016

Friedman, Julia, Painting, Performing, and Deconstructing the Body, Hyperallergic, October 20, 2016 

Cotter, Holland, What to See in New York Galleries This Week,  The New York Times, September 15, 2016

Embuscado, Rain, 10 Exceptional Millennial Artists to Watch in 2016, ArtNet, September 15, 20160

Parham, Jason, This Artist Wants You To See The Fullness of Black Men’s Lives, The Fader, August 10, 2016

Lesser, Casey, These 20 Female Artists are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward, Artsy, June 10, 2016

Fateman, Johanna, New York: Jordan Casteel, Artforum, October 2015

The BHOLDR editors Jordan Casteel: Brothers, The BHOLDR, October 22, 2015

Sargent, Antwaun, Making Black Men Visible-By Painting Then Together, Vice, October 21, 2015

Biswas, Allie,  Jordan Casteel: My Perspective is One Full of Empathy and Love, Studio International, October 21, 2015

Kirszenbaum, Martha, Blinds and Mirrors, Flash Art, July-September 2015

Artforum editors, Studio Museum in Harlem Announces Artists in Residence for 2015-16, Artforum, June 17, 2015

Zevitas, Steven New American Paintings Issue 116, New American Paintings, February/March 2015

Colucci, Emily, Now You See Me…:(In)Visibility in Jordan Casteel’s ‘Visible Man’, Filthy Dreams, August 22, 2014 

McMillian, Kyle, Art’s New View: The 12 Best Colorado Artists 35 and Under, Timeout, May 22, 2011


SELECT PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES/MEDIA

2024 Keynote Presentation, 2024 National Art Education Association, National Convention, Minneapolis, MN

2023 Jordan Casteel: Painting the Landscape, New York University, New York, NY

Scholl Lecture Series Presented by Goldman Sachs: Jordan Casteel, Perez Museum of Art Miami, Miami, FL

2022 Guest Speaker, address, Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquisitions Gala, New York, NY 

Panelist, Great Women Painters Book Launch, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander: The Trayvon Generation, The Center for British Art, Yale, New Haven, CT

AFAM50 Celebration of the Arts, panel discussion, Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale, New Haven, CT 

Tagouri, Noor, host, “Jordan Casteel on Demanding Space, Painting Race, Being My Neighbor, and Much More,” Podcast Noor, podcast, At Your Service

Met x Prep for Prep: A Conversation with Akili Tommasino and Jordan Casteel, panel discussion, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY

2021         Collecting the Contemporary: Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 

Hessel, Katy, host, “Jordan Casteel,” Great Women Artists, Podcast, Arte 

Toure, host, “Jordan Casteel — I Paint,” Toure Show, Podcast, DCP entertainment

Gay, Roxane, host, “Something Has To Get DoneHear to Slay, podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda 

Pollard, Sam, director, Black Art: In the Absence of Light, documentary film, HBO 

Jordan Casteel, online artist’s talk, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Painting Portraits: A Conversation with Jordan Casteel, online artist’s talk, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY

Jordan Casteel, online artist’s talk, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Online

Artist Talks, online artist’s talk, Godwin-Tembach Museum at Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY

2020       Jordan Casteel with Ashley James, online artist’s talk, sponsored by Hill Art Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail 

In Relation: Jordan Casteel and Hanya Yanagihara in Conversation, online artist’s talk, New Museum, New York, NY

The Prevalence of Ritual: Romare Bearden and Legacy, online panel discussion, Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York, NY

Frieze Talks: Jordan Casteel and Amanda Hunt moderated by Mark Guiducci, online panel discussion, Frieze Magazine

James T. Demetrion Lecture: Jordan Casteel, online artist’s talk, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

Inside Track: Art in Times of Crisis, online artist’s talk, High Line Presents

Diament, Robert and Tovey, Russel, cohosts, “Jordan Casteel (QuarARTine Special Episode)TalkArt, Podcast, Talk Art

Revolutionary Re-Imaginings: Black Joy in Resistance, online artist’s talk, NYU - Institute of African American Affairs, New York, NY      

Jordan Casteel on Gerhard Richter, a conversation with Sheena Wagstaff, online discussion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

How to Create in a Time of Crisis with Jordan Casteel, Naima Green, & Cynthia Cervantes Gumbs, online discussion, The Wing, New York, NY

Professional Development Workshop for Educators: Within Reach, online artist’s talk, Art 21 and New Museum

Jordan Casteel in conversation with Massimilano Gioni, Panel discussion, New Museum, New York, NY      

2019 130th Commencement, speaker, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

My Favorite Artwork Swizz Beatz, video, T Magazine

Teen Program Q & A, guest speaker, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Logan Lecture Series: Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Artist on Artists: Jordan Casteel on Manny Farber, Lecture, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA

2018         Visiting artist, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY

Visiting artist, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2017         Artworld Talk: Is Culture in the Americas in Big Trouble?, panel discussion, Art Basel, Miami, FL

We Wanted a Revolution, panel discussion, Columbia University, New York, NY

Artist’s talk, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Leathers Lecture Series: Jordan Casteel: Life and Work, artist’s talk, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Artist Talk with Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, The Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC

MetFridays: Art School - The Studio, artist’s talk, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Art21 editors, “Jordan Casteel Stays in the Moment,New York Close Up, Art 21, November 17

Art21 editors, “Jordan Casteel Paints Her Community ,New York Close Up, Art 21, June 16

2016         Portrait as Politic, panel discussion, Black Portraiture Conference, Johannesburg, SA

The Artist’s Voice: Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Conversation,  panel discussion, WNYC Greene Space, New York, NY

Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, Boston University, Boston, MA

Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Conversation, panel discussion, WNYC Greene Space, New York, NY        

2015 Here/Say 3: Voicing a Politic, panel discussion, Barnard College, New York, NY   

2014         Jordan Casteel in Conversation with Wardell Milan: Visible Man, artist’s talk, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY

Special Feature: Jordan Casteel, artist’s talk, Black Male Initiative, Hunter College, New York, NY


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2023         Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ

2016-2021    Associate Professor of Painting, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ

2013         Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2011-2012     Teach For America, Special Educator, Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello, Denver, CO


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

The Dean Collection, New York, NY

Denver Art Museum,  Denver, CO

Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI

The Ford Collection, New York, NY

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC

Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York