NEW YORK, NY.- The Hill Art Foundation announced a solo exhibition of work by Jordan Casteel on view from Friday, September 13–Saturday, November 23. The presentation is curated by Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President of Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island. Casteel’s figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes will be accompanied by original scholarship by Haynes.

Compositions that span the last decade are sourced from the environments Casteel inhabits and presented against the backdrop of the Foundation, overlooking 10th Avenue and the High Line. The exhibition brings together key loans and four monumental portraits from the Hill Collection, two of which are promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to trace the lineage of a site within a site.

Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) is a painter capturing moments of proximity with people and environments encountered within the New York City subway and the streets of Harlem to the woodlands of Upstate New York. Through gestural brushwork and bold swathes of color, Casteel depicts people of color and landscapes that convey relationships of mutual respect and care.

Casteel received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA for Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). The artist was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2021. In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, presented in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalogue published by the New Museum including interviews and essays by Thelma Golden, Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, and Amanda Hunt. Casteel’s work has recently been included in exhibitions at institutions such as The Box, Plymouth, UK (2024); Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (2024); St. Louis Art Museum, MI (2024); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2024); The Brooklyn Museum, NY (2024); The National Portrait Gallery, London (2024); The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MoCA) (2023); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2023); The Modern, Fort Worth, TX (2022); The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA (ICA) (2022); Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (2021); The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2021); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (2021); San Francisco Museum of Art, CA (SFMOMA) (2020); and MCA Chicago, IL (2020).

In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a larger-than-life mural of The Baayfalls (2017). Other public art projects include Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY (2021) and Public Art Fund, New York, NY (2020). Also in 2019, an exhibition of Casteel’s work titled Returning the Gaze traveled from The Denver Art Museum, CO to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA. Casteel’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (MoMA); the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA (MOCA); San Francisco Museum of Art, CA (SFMOMA); Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL (PAMM); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Denver Art Museum, CO; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; and Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA. Casteel lives and works in New York.

Lauren Haynes is Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island in New York City. Haynes is a specialist in contemporary art by artists of African Descent and has spent her almost two-decade career at art institutions across the US, including the Queens Museum; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Momentary; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has written and lectured extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists at all stages of their careers. Haynes’s recent curatorial projects include Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love (co-curator, 2023-24); The Power of Portraiture: Recent Acquisitions (2022); Beyond the Surface: Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection (2022); Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now (co-curator, 2022); Kenny Rivero: The Floor is Crooked (2021); Crystal Bridges at 10 (2021); Sarah Cain: In Nature (2021); State of the Art 2020 (co-curator, 2020); and The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art (co-curator, 2018). Haynes serves on the board for the AAMC Foundation as VP of Fundraising and on the visiting committee for the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow and a recipient of a 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Award. In 2023, President Joe Biden appointed Haynes to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she currently serves.