Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) 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). In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, 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. Other recent museum solo exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, presented at both the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of The Baayfalls, a 2017 painting depicting two Harlem street vendors, connecting public spaces of different neighborhoods across New York City. Other public art projects include Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY (2021) and Public Art Fund, New York, NY (2020).

In recent years, Casteel has participated in group and permanent collection exhibitions at institutional venues such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); St. Louis Art Museum, MO (2023); New Orleans Museum of Art, LA (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2021-2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2022); The Modern, Fort Worth, TX (2022); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2022); Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2022); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2021); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2021); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2021); Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2020); MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). Most recently, Casteel presented a solo exhibition entitled In bloom at Casey Kaplan, New York. Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021).