Jordan Casteel, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence 2015-2016

Jordan Casteel is a figurative painter whose recent work uses bold color and thick, gestural paint to explore the theme of black masculinity in a domestic environment. She received her BA in studio art in 2011 from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, and her MFA in painting and printmaking in 2014 from Yale University in New Haven, CT. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY (2015) and at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space on Governors Island, NY (2015). Her work was selected for inclusion in New American Paintings Northeast Issue #116 in 2015.