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 - Yale University
2014 - University of the West Indies St Augustine (Studio Arts Independent Study)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 - NXTHVN
2024 - Mahler-LeWitt Studios
2024 - Peter Bullough Foundation
2024 - Banff Centre for the Arts
2023 - Naranjo141
2020 - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
2019 - Headlands Center for the Arts
2019 - Photographic Center Northwest
2018 - Museum of Glass, Tacoma
2017 - Vermont Studio Center
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2024 - Queer|Art Fellowship
2024 - The Current - Tacoma Art Museum
2022 - Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship
2018 - Artist Trust Fellowship
2017 - James W Ray Award - Artist Trust
2017 - Neddy Artist Award - Behnke Foundation
2017 - Jon Imber Painting Fellowship - VSC
2016 - AMOCAT Award - Tacoma Art Commission
2015 - Foundation of Art Award - Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
2015 - GAP Award - Artist Trust
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - There is Feeling - Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2024 - THE END - Veronica, Seattle
2024 - A Tale of Small Moments - Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal
2023 - A Thief in the Night - Naranjo 141, Mexico City
2023 - A Breath on Glass - Spurs Gallery, Beijing
2023 - A Signal Urgent but Breaking - Perrotin, New York
2022 - In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive - Frye Art Museum, Seattle
2020 - Yellow No. 5 - Bellevue Arts Museum
2019 - Face First - Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
2018 - Cell Count - Visual AIDS, La Mama Galleria, New York
2018 - All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party - AIPAD Photography Show, New York
2018 - Two Person Exhibition, Place Names - The Art Gym, Lake Oswego
2018 - Neddy Artists Award Exhibition - Studio E Gallery, Seattle
2017 - COLORED - Breaker Gallery/Carpenters Union Building, Tacoma
2017 - Black Spatial Imaginary - Paragon Arts Center, Portland
2017 - Olympic Sculpture Park - Seattle Art Museum
2017 - Echo Echo - The Alice, Seattle
2016 - Out of Sight - King Street Station, Seattle
2016 - Northwest Art Now - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma