Introducing – Jordan Casteel

The debut monograph on the American artist known for her larger-than-life paintings that highlight the humanity of her subjects - friends, family, and strangers - with sections conceived and designed by Casteel herself.

At once tender and powerful, Jordan Casteel’s larger-than-life but intensely intimate portrait paintings include friends, family members, and classmates, as well as diverse subjects whom she meets and photographs on the streets of her New York neighbourhood, thus effectively transforming strangers into close friends and collaborators.

Her paintings highlight the humanity of her subjects while affirming ideas of social justice. From the New York City subway and the streets of Harlem to the woodlands of Upstate New York, Casteel has established a collaborative practice where individuals she has encountered over the course of her daily life are represented in their element, generating an experience that is at once intimate and collective.

Our new book, Jordan Casteel, the first ever monograph on the artist, features sections especially conceived and designed by Casteel herself. It is the only comprehensive publication on her work and its publication is timed to coincide with her solo exhibition at Casey Kaplan , New York, in November this year (2025).

Casteel, who just joined Thaddeus Ropac Gallery (London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul) is one of the most critically and commercially successful artists working today. The New York Times said of her work: “All of her art feels observational at its core, an act of noticing who or what often doesn’t get seen.”

In an interview in the book Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Casteel told Mat Smith: “In times like these, we must remember that being connected to and through our humanity is paramount. Art helps to remind us to slow down and engage with the world around us."

"Art is also a storyteller of history through time. It’s important to record our history for future generations through art so that we’re able to look back at a moment and observe themes or patterns in the attitudes of the past, and how they may continue to take shape or exist in our present.”

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