Jordan Casteel, solo show Field of view at Hill Art Foundation

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Jordan Casteel steps into a concentrated institutional spotlight with the solo exhibition Field of view at Hill Art Foundation in New York. As the Foundation outlines in its exhibition announcement, the show runs from September 13 to November 23, 2026 and is curated by Lauren Haynes, with key works from the Hill Collection and major museum loans anchored in the presentation. Hill Art Foundation exhibition page

The solo show in New York

Field of view brings together Jordan Casteel’s figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes created over roughly the past decade, staged in Hill Art Foundation’s Chelsea space overlooking 10th Avenue and the High Line. The Foundation stresses that four monumental portraits from the Hill Collection form a backbone of the show, including works promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Hill Art Foundation exhibition page

Curator Lauren Haynes, known for her focus on contemporary art by artists of African descent, frames the exhibition as a meditation on how Casteel’s painting traces the layered sites she inhabits, from the New York City subway and Harlem streets to upstate woodlands. The show is accompanied by a dedicated publication featuring Haynes’s essay, underscoring the institutional weight attached to this presentation. Hill Art Foundation curatorial text

Recent recognition and awards

The Hill Art Foundation foregrounds in its biography that Jordan Casteel received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2021, a key award that has significantly elevated her international profile in recent years. The MacArthur citation recognizes her for painting people and environments with bold color and attentive gesture, transforming everyday encounters into sustained, reciprocal forms of looking. Hill Art Foundation artist biography

Beyond the MacArthur Fellowship, Casteel’s trajectory includes major institutional solo exhibitions such as Within Reach at the New Museum in New York in 2020, and the traveling show Returning the Gaze, which moved from Denver Art Museum to Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in 2019. These projects form the backdrop against which Field of view now positions a focused selection of works in conversation with a private collection and its promised gifts to leading museums. Hill Art Foundation artist biography

The work core in Field of view

In Field of view, Jordan Casteel extends a painting language that centers people and spaces often overlooked in traditional portraiture and landscape genres, using saturated palettes and broad, confident brushwork. Works such as Harlem Public (2021), Damani and Shola (2022) and Medinilla, Wanda and Annelise (2019) translate everyday proximity into compositions that hold eye contact and bodily presence over large canvases. Hill Art Foundation checklist

The checklist reveals a parallel strand of more intimate formats, including small-scale floral paintings such as Garden (Sunflowers) (2023) and compact canvases like Bleeding Heart (2024), which echo themes of care and transition in quieter registers. Together, the large portraits and focused still lifes map how Casteel calibrates scale, color and gesture to sustain the sense of mutual recognition referenced in the exhibition title. Hill Art Foundation checklist

Where the artist stands now

Against this backdrop, Jordan Casteel’s current institutional focus is the solo exhibition Field of view at Hill Art Foundation in New York, scheduled to run from September 13 to November 23, 2026.

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