Jordan Casteel: Artist talk In conversation with Tarini Malik
Join us for an in-conversation between artist Jordan Casteel and Tarini Malik, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts, coinciding with Casteel’s presentation of new works at the gallery during London Gallery Weekend. The pair will discuss Casteel’s uniquely empathetic approach to storytelling in her magnetic, larger-than-life compositions, as she collects impressions of her communities and the vibrant displays of humanity she encounters there.
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Jordan Casteel lives and works in New York. Having first enrolled as a sociology and anthropology major, she received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College in 2011 and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2014. From 2016 to 2021, she taught as an associate professor of painting at Rutgers University–Newark – the series of portraits she made of her students there were hung in the first room of her acclaimed solo museum show Within Reach at New Museum, New York (2020). In 2024, Casteel was the subject of a solo exhibition spanning the past decade of her practice at the Hill Art Foundation, New York. She has also presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Denver Art Museum (2019) and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (2019–20). In 2019, New York’s High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of Casteel’s painting The Baayfalls. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021), the John Koch Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (both 2024) and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (as of 2023).
Tarini Malik is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts. She was the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024 edition of Venice Biennale working with artist John Akomfrah. Previously, she was a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery where she was responsible for the planning of artistic programmes, and at the Hayward Gallery where she organised a series of landmark group exhibitions, as well as the first solo presentations in the UK of several international artists whose practices deal with themes of post-colonialism and identity politics. From 2013-2017, Malik was Head of Exhibitions for artist Isaac Julien and Research Curator with Mark Nash on several major touring international exhibitions. In 2015, she was Research Curator for the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, entitled “All The Worlds Futures”. Malik has also held curatorial posts at Fiorucci Art Trust, Frieze Projects and Serpentine Galleries. She has published her writing in various magazines and journals and lectured widely on cultural studies and curating.
