Born in 1990 in Tacoma, USA
Lives and works in New Haven, USA
Christopher Paul Jordan is a painter and public artist from Tacoma, Washington. The artist laces salvaged materials—window screens and debris netting—with acrylic paint, simulating conditions of relocation to raise questions about human relationships. Through parallel practices in performance, installation, and sculpture, his investigations are often staged or permanently embedded in public space. Jordan’s first museum exhibition, In The Interim - Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, buries predictions of the end of the world by African American participants on the grounds of the Frye Art Museum until the year 2123. His 20ft bronze, aluminum, and steel sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody (2021) is the centerpiece for The AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. Jordan is a Leslie Lohman museum fellow. His recent residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Museum of Glass.
