Jordan Casteel In Conversation With Massimiliano Gioni

A conversation between artist Jordan Casteel and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum, on the occasion of Casteel’s first solo museum exhibition “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach.”

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) lives and works in New York City and is Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University-Newark. Recent solo exhibitions include “Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze,” presented at both the Denver Art Museum, Denver (2019) and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (2019–20). In recent years, she has participated in exhibitions at institutional venues such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2018); MoCA, Los Angeles, CA (2018); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). Casteel has been an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space, Governors Island, NY (2015); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2015); and The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Casteel received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA in 2011 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2014.