Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) earned her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). In 2020, she presented Within Reach, a solo exhibition at the New Museum in New York, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays and interviews by Thelma Golden, Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, and Amanda Hunt. Recent solo exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, shown at the Denver Art Museum (2019) and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (2019–20). In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural based on her 2017 painting The Baayfalls, which depicted two Harlem street vendors and connected different New York City neighborhoods. Casteel has also created public art projects for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2021) and the Public Art Fund (2020). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at major institutions, including the Baltimore Museum of Art (2023), St. Louis Art Museum (2023), New Orleans Museum of Art (2023), Metropolitan Museum of Art (2021-2023), Museum of Modern Art (2022), The Modern in Fort Worth (2022), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2022), Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2022), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021), among others. Casteel’s most recent solo show, In Bloom, was presented at Casey Kaplan in New York. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2021.