Jordan Casteel - upcoming solo show Field of view at Hill Art Foundation
Published on 08/22/2026 at 12:09 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Jordan Casteel enters a concentrated institutional frame with the solo exhibition Field of view at Hill Art Foundation in New York. As the Foundation states, the show is scheduled to run from September 13 to November 23, 2026, curated by Lauren Haynes. Hill Art Foundation exhibition page
The exhibition Field of view
Field of view gathers Jordan Casteel’s figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes from roughly the last decade, staged in the Foundation’s galleries overlooking 10th Avenue and the High Line in New York. Hill Art Foundation emphasizes original scholarship by curator Lauren Haynes in the accompanying publication. Hill Art Foundation exhibition page
The checklist includes large-scale portraits such as Damani and Shola (2022), Harlem Public (2021) and The Carolinas (2021), alongside more intimate garden paintings like Garden (Sunflowers) (2023) and smaller canvases such as Bleeding Heart (2024). Works are drawn from private collections, the Hill Collection and promised gifts to major museums.
Work series and institutional context
Casteel’s presence at Hill Art Foundation builds on a sequence of solo exhibitions including Within Reach at New Museum in New York in 2020 and the traveling show Returning the Gaze that moved from Denver Art Museum to Cantor Arts Center in 2019. The Foundation’s biography highlights these earlier museum projects in placing Field of view. Hill Art Foundation artist biography
In parallel to the New York solo show, Casteel’s work appears in thematic group exhibitions such as Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture in Princeton, where her practice is paired with historical painter Laura Wheeler Waring to frame intergenerational approaches to Black portraiture. Arts Council of Princeton exhibition information
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The work core in portraits and gardens
Jordan Casteel works primarily in painting, building large-format canvases that balance direct portrait encounters with layered urban and domestic settings, often drawn from Harlem streets, subway interiors and the woodlands of upstate New York. Hill Art Foundation describes her brushwork as gestural and color-rich.
Key series such as Nights in Harlem, The Baayfalls, Within Reach and recent garden-based works like Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers extend this focus into different scales, from monumental public murals to intimate floral panels. These series anchor her position in contemporary figurative painting.
Current state of the work
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.
Jordan Casteel at a glance
- Artist: Jordan Casteel
- Medium / Genre: Painting (figurative)
- Born: 1989, Denver, United States
- Place(s) of practice: Studio in New York City
- Active since: Early 2010s, with MFA completed in 2014
- Key work groups: Nights in Harlem, The Baayfalls, Within Reach, Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers
- Current/last exhibition: Field of view, Hill Art Foundation, New York, scheduled from September 13 to November 23, 2026
- Major collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)
- Awards: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021)
- Next date: September 13, 2026 - opening of Field of view at Hill Art Foundation, New York
Frequently asked questions about Jordan Casteel
When does Jordan Casteel’s solo exhibition Field of view open at Hill Art Foundation?
Hill Art Foundation announces that Field of view will be on view in New York from September 13 to November 23, 2026, marking a focused institutional presentation of Casteel’s work over the last decade.
How does Field of view relate to Jordan Casteel’s earlier museum shows?
The Hill Art Foundation biography situates Field of view after solo and traveling exhibitions such as Within Reach at New Museum in 2020 and Returning the Gaze, which moved from Denver Art Museum to Cantor Arts Center in 2019, underscoring a growing institutional trajectory.
In which public collections can works by Jordan Casteel be found?
According to Hill Art Foundation’s overview, Casteel’s paintings are held in major collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others.
What themes structure Jordan Casteel’s recent garden-based paintings?
Series such as Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers and smaller canvases like Garden (Sunflowers) or Bleeding Heart translate resilience, care and personal environments into floral motifs, extending her portrait practice into landscape-oriented formats.
How is Jordan Casteel positioned in intergenerational dialogues on Black portraiture?
The exhibition Echoes in Our Bones in Princeton pairs Casteel with Laura Wheeler Waring, highlighting how her contemporary depictions of everyday Black lives build on and expand historical frameworks of representation.
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