In-Store: Jordan Casteel in conversation with Mikayla Bryant

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The first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working today.

Jordan Casteel (b.1989 in Denver) is a New York-based artist known for her large-scale, figurative portraits and landscapes made with gestural brushwork and bold swaths of color.

From the New York City subway and the streets of Harlem to the woodlands of Upstate New York, Casteel has established a collaborative practice where individuals she has encountered over the course of her daily life are represented in their element, generating an experience that is at once intimate and collective.

Casteel's debut monograph features nearly 150 beautifully reproduced images, with sections specially conceived and designed by the artist herself.

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). Last year, Casteel’s first comprehensive monograph was published by Phaidon with texts by Legacy Russell, Katherine Brinson and Asma Naeem. Recent exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Field of view at the Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (2024; solo); The Studio Museum in Harlem (2025, 2017 - 2016), Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland (2025), Brooklyn Museum of Art (2024), National Portrait Gallery, London (2024), Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); St. Louis Art Museum, MO (2023); New Orleans Museum of Art, LA (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2021-2023); 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); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2020); MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). In 2020, Casteel presented Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalogue including interviews and essays by Thelma Golden, Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, and Amanda Hunt. In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of The Baayfalls, a 2017 painting depicting two Harlem street vendors, connecting public spaces of different neighborhoods across New York City. Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021) and serves on the board of trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Most recently, Casteel presented a solo exhibition entitled Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers at Casey Kaplan, New York.

Mikayla Bryant (she/her/hers) is an archivist, film photographer and writer born and raised in rural North Carolina. Bryant’s art explores the beauty of human interaction, nature, and the mundane. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is currently working on her first novel.