I make paintings, sculptures, and installations as time-capsules to hold, bury, and connect. I’m interested in the afterlife of memory; in the ways oral tradition is altered and negotiated in conditions of diaspora. My practice deals with continuance, analog internets, infrastructures of knowledge and care, and technologies for corresponding with locations beyond reach.

EXHIBITION: In The Interim - Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, curated by Claire Tancons, Frye Art Museum 

INTERVIEW: Black Queer Celebration and Sonic Disruption // An AIDS memorial that reclaims public space for the present and future. - BOMB Magazine

Contact me at jordan.p.chris[at]gmail.com

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EDUCATION
2023 - MFA in Painting and Printmaking - Yale University
2014 - University of the West Indies St Augustine (Studio Arts Independent Study)

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 - Queer|Art Fellowship
2022 - Leslie Lohman Museum Fellowship
2020 - Residency - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
2019 - Residency - Headlands Center for the Arts
2019 - Riffs Residency - Photographic Center Northwest
2018 - Fellowship - Artist Trust
2018 - Residency - Museum of Glass
2017 - James W Ray Venture Project Award - Artist Trust
2017 - Neddy Artist Award - Behnke Foundation
2017 - Jon Imber Painting Fellowship - Vermont Studio Center
2015 - Foundation of Art Award - Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
2015 - GAP Award - Artist Trust

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS UNDERWAY
2024 - Kent/Des Moines Station - Sound Transit, Seattle WA 2024 - 272nd st Station - Sound Transit, Seattle WA
2024 - Washington State Convention Center, Seattle WA

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023 - A Breath on Glass - Spurs Gallery, Beijing
2023 - A Signal Urgent but Breaking - Perrotin, New York
2022 - Two Person Exhibition - In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive - Frye Art Museum, Seattle
2020 - Yellow No. 5 - Bellevue Arts Museum
2018 - Cell Count - Visual AIDS, La Mama Galleria, New York 
2018 - All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party - AIPAD Photography Show Special Exhibition, New York
2018 - Two Person Exhibition, Place Names - The Art Gym, Lake Oswego
2018 - Neddy Artists Award Exhibition - Studio E Gallery, Seattle
2017 - Black Spatial Imaginary - Paragon Arts Center, Portland
2017 - Echo Echo - The Alice, Seattle
2016 - Out of Sight - King Street Station, Seattle
2016 - Northwest Art Now - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma

SELECT PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
2021 - Black Queer Celebration and Sonic Disruption - BOMB Magazine  12/15
2020 - “Before it’s razed for development, Hilltop Rite Aid will be a canvas for Black artists - News Tribune 12/27
2020 - “Black and Center - Collaboration, Color, and Care” Seattle Emerald”
2018 - “Shining Light” - Forterra/Ampersand - 10/5
2018 - “21st Century Black Feminisms” - Monday Journal, 8/26
2018 - “How the Black Panther Party lives on — in photos and beyond” - Crosscut, 5/9
2018 - “The Visual Influence of the Black Panther Party” - City Arts Magazine, 4/23
2018 - “Issue #133” - New American Paintings 1/11
2018 - “The establishment embraces this Tacoma artist; he doesn’t hug back” - KUOW, 1/21
2017 - “Historical Lands: Leveraging the information age to decolonize the past” - Visual AIDS, 12/1
2017 - “Reinventing Home”, City Arts Magazine, 10/26
2017 - “Don’t Miss Christopher Paul Jordan's Temporary Installation at Olympic Sculpture Park”, The Stranger
2017 - “The Tacoma artist who is reframing how we see Black bodies”, Crosscut, 8/1
2017 - “When COLORED took over Tacoma”, City Arts Magazine, 6/6