Jordan Casteel: Presentation of works

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents three new paintings by Jordan Casteel coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. Born in Denver and now based in New York, Casteel is known for her magnetic, larger-than-life compositions that combine empathetic storytelling with bold, luminescent colour. The presentation follows the recent announcement of Casteel’s representation by Thaddaeus Ropac in February this year, as well as the artist’s inclusion in the major group exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure which travelled from the National Portrait Gallery, London to The Box, Plymouth; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh...

Portrait of Jordan Casteel. Photo: David Schulze

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989 ,Colorado, USA) lives and works in New York. Having first enrolled as a sociology and anthropology major, she received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College in 2011, and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2014. From 2016 to 2021, she taught as an associate professor of painting at Rutgers University-Newark - the series of portraits sh...

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989 ,Colorado, USA) lives and works in New York. Having first enrolled as a sociology and anthropology major, she received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College in 2011, and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2014. From 2016 to 2021, she taught as an associate professor of painting at Rutgers University-Newark - the series of portraits she made of her students there were hung in the first room of her acclaimed solo museum show Within Reach at New Museum, New York (2020). In 2024, Casteel was the subject of a solo exhibition spanning the past decade of her practice at the Hill Art Foundation, New York. She has also presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Denver Art Museum (2019) and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (2019-20). In 2019, New York's High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of Casteel's painting The Baayfalls. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021), the John Koch Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (both 2024) and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (as of 2023).