Join us for our Scholl Lecture Series, presented by Goldman Sachs, featuring artist Jordan Casteel. Casteel is a renowned American figurative painter who typically paints intimate portraits of friends, lovers, and family members as well as neighbors and strangers in Harlem and New York. Her work Lourdes and Karina (2019) is currently on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
Photo by David Schulze
About Jordan Casteel
Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA for Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalog published by the institution.
Lourdes and Karina , 2019
Oil on canvas
90 x 78″ / 228.6 x 198.12cm
JC2019-003
© Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York
Other recent museum solo exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, presented at the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In recent years, Casteel has participated in group and permanent collection exhibitions at institutional venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2021 and 2022); 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); Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019); MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021).
