Lives and works in New York
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Education
- 2019 Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, MFA in Film//Video
- 2016 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, BFA in Fine Art with Honors
- 2016 Eugene Lang, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, NY BA in Visual Art, Culture and Media with Honors, 2010-2016
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Solo exhibitions
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2022
SOOEY, Red Tracy, Copenhagen, Denmark
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PUNCHLINE, Participant Inc, New York, NY
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PUNCHLINE, Home Gallery in collaboration with Participant Inc, New York, NY
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PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER Renaissance TV, tv.renaissancesociety.org
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Selected group exhibitions
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2021
Illiberal Arts September, Haus der Welt, Berlin, Germany, curated by Kerstin Stakemeier and Anselm Franke
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This End The Sun with Maryam Hoseini and Rindon Johnson, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Margot Norton
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PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure), Acid Rain, Chapel Hill, NC, February 1 – March 31, curated by Jerstin Crosby
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2020
No Bag, Presented by Participant Inc, participantafterdark.art
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Company (BASF), Red Tracy, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 8 – January 8, 2021, curated by Line Ebert
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Hard Opening, Housing, New York, NY, curated by KJ Freeman
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Cinema Quarantine, cinemaquarantine.org, curated by Coco Young
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Might Delete Later, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
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When Truth Kills Truth Focus Group with Phoebe Osborne, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
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In Practice Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, curated by Kyle Dancewicz
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STEPPENWOLF, 182 Avenue C, New York, NY
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2019
Red Eye Focus Group organized in collaboration with Phoebe Osborne, Hercules Art, New York, NY
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Say Ever Moves Bard MFA Thesis Show, Red Hook, NY, curated by Marisa Espe
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Studio 54 Film Program: Screening, Films Selected by Rindon Johnson Julia Stoschek Collection Dusseldorf, Germany
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Cindy Crawford Birthday Bash: Short Film & Video Survey 182 Avenue C, New York City, NY, organized by MilesPflanz
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2018
Lardesss: Bard Second Year Show Bard Fisher Studio Arts, Annandale on Hudson, NY
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A Cultivated Life, two-person show with Rindon Johnson, King’s Leap Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Coco Fitterman
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2017
Aloha From Hell, Video Art Screening, PUBLIC ARTS, New York, NY, curated by Brooke Wise
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Humor as a Coping Mechanism, PUBLIC ARTS, New York, NY, curated by Brooke Wise
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2016
American Splendor, Head Too Heavy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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Bard MFA First Year Show, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
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The Future Now, Sheila Johnson Center, New York, NY, curated by Andria Hickey
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Parsons Fine Arts BFA Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY
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Trauma and Traume Screening, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Yes, Chef dance art video screening, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Sara Kinlaw
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2015
dis-em-body, 25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, curated by Jasmin Risk
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Pressure Zone dance art video screening, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Gina Chiappetta
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Awards
- 2022 Renaissance Society Project Completion Support
- 2021 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
- Abrons Arts Center AIRSPACE residency 2021-22
- FCA Covid Grant
- 2020 Media Hour Residency, Vermont, August 2020
- 2019 “The Guest” Residency Hercules Art, New York, NY
- 2016 Bard MFA Fellowship 2016-19
- 2010 The New School University Dean’s BA and BFA Scholarships, Dean's List 2010-2016
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Press
- Jordan Strafer | Self-Sentencing, Flaunt Magazine
- Jordan Strafer Shares Her Top Ten, Artforum International
- Jordan Strafer – PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER by Barlo Perry, PARIS LA, paris-la.com
- Jordan Strafer: Mad Libbing for Truth by Jeppe Ugelvig, Spike Magazine
- A Cruel Joke: Jordan Strafer Interviewed by Simon Wu, Bomb Magazine
- Jordan Strafer, ‘PUNCHLINE’ by Maxwell Paparella, Screen Slate
- Featured artist by Guest Curator Isis Awad, Foundwork, foundwork.art
- David Joselit on “Illiberal Arts” Best Shows of 2021, Artforum International
- ANOTHER LAWYER, Image Contribution: Spike Magazine #69
- Wie viel Freiheit bringt die Kunst wirklich – und für wen?, Der Tagesspiegel
- SOS SH**T DIARY, Rare Violins edited by Sara Maggenheimer
- Illiberal Arts, Edited by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier, HKW Berlin
- Everyone Is Bad: Jordan Strafer Interviewed by Shehab (Isis) Awad for BLUE Magazine
- Video Artist Jordan Strafer on the Agony and Ecstasy of Making Creative Work Emily Gosling for Elephant Magazine
- Entrails: The Guts of Jordan Strafer’s Video Art Aesthetics Darla Migan for Participant Inc
- Thing 015 FORM IV, formiv.com, edited by Isabel Mallet
- Issue 41:Love Runway Journal Australia in conversation with Thomas Ragnar
- Buttholes 4 Cheap Zine in collaboration with Rindon Johnson and Inpatient Press
- Say Ever Moves Catalog edited by Marisa Espe
- A Cultivated Life Rindon Johnson, Jordan Strafer, Coco Fitterman, Inpatient Press
- Trauma and Traume Vassar Review
- A Day edited by Mira Schor
