For its blockbuster September issue, Vogue has tapped not one, but two African American artists to paint separate covers, with images by Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel. The September issue, ...

Jordan Casteel is an American artist known for her paintings that explore themes of humanity, sexuality, identity, and subjectivity. "The intent of the paintings is to expose my vision of black men as ...

When Jordan Casteel was in residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015, the young painter wanted to capture the energy of the street vendors she saw daily. With her camera, she mustered up the ...

In 2014, Jordan Casteel graduated from Yale with an MFA and had her first solo exhibition, Visible Man, at Sargent’s Daughters in New York (August 13–September 14, 2014). The show consisted of ...

2020 has been the most dizzying year in recent memory, upending much and not enough of our sense of our security, place, and hope in the future. This disorientation is so pervasive that even the ...

NEW YORK — When artist Jordan Casteel arrived on campus as a college freshman, her mother marched her into the dining hall — not for a meal but to greet the kitchen staff. They had met the president ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has invited celebrated painter Jordan Casteel to participate in this year’s James T. Demetrion Lecture, the museum’s most distinguished lecture ...

The 2021 MacArthur Fellows have been announced, and in the mix is Denver-raised, New York-based painter Jordan Casteel, whose moving portraits of everyday people garnered the artist her first solo ...

Today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the newest class of 25 fellows to be awarded the MacArthur “Genius” grant, one of America’s most coveted accolades which comes with ...

The latest issue of Time magazine features a work of art, a mother holding her daughter. It's titled "God Bless the Child" by Jordan Casteel, who's from Denver. It's part of a special project from ...

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Jordan Casteel’s portraits invite us to meet their gaze. The artist is best known for detailed oil paintings that find subjects in her New York City community—usually African Americans, always people ...