JORDAN ANN CRAIG

Jordan Ann Craig.
Photo: © Devlin Gandy.

Jordan Ann Craig, an artist from the Northern Cheyenne, creates paintings, prints and textile works, which are an exploration of existence, time and space, woven from cultural memory and epiphany. In 2018, Craig exhibited works as part of October Gallery’s group show, Portal II. This was followed by her successful solo exhibition, entitled Your Wildest Dreams, which presented a newly completed series of reimaged hard-edge paintings based on Cheyenne cultural design and autobiographical observation.

Craig’s process is meticulous and meditative, often obsessive in mark and repetition. She draws inspiration from Indigenous textiles, beadwork, pottery and landscapes. Her work shares personal stories through abstraction, colour and rhythm. She engages past, present and future to depict Indigenous design through a contemporary lens. Craig creates new narratives within her work while celebrating her ancestors and Indigenous land. Her abstract paintings and prints expands the definition of Native American art, and how culture is transmitted.

The artist explains: “My work keeps me up at night and gets me out of bed in the morning. I've forgotten how to sleep. I tell stories about my childhood, family, trauma, healing and the appealing mundane. Working in series, I explore subjects like the feeling of forgetting how to sleep, my relationships with my sisters, and the translation of language and dreams. The dots and shapes are my words; the stories are in their rhythm.”

Craig earned her BFA from Dartmouth College studying Studio Art and Psychology. She has participated in numerous artist residency programmes and exhibitions nationally and internationally. Craig’s first residence was in 2018 at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2019 she was the recipient of the notable Roswell Artist-in-Residence fellowship and more recently has participated in residencies including Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming (2020); Anderson Ranch t in Snowmass Village, Colorado (2022) and Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2023). Craig is Creative Director and Cofounder of Shy Natives, an ethically made apparel line designed by Native American women. As of 2022, Craig sits on the Hood Museum of Art Board of Advisors and is also newly appointed Commissioner of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB).

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Career Highlights

Center of Attention, 2020.

Red Orange Dyed Quills, 2019.

Something To Do With Being Held, 2019.

Selected Works

Beaded Grid, 2019.
Edition of 7

Don’t Kill Spiders; Cream, 2018.
Edition of 14

Don’t Kill Spiders; Golden, 2018.
Edition of 6

Buckskin Print; Lazy Stitch Rows, 2019.
Edition of 11

Criss Cross; Olive Over Blue, 2019.
Edition of 8

Diamond Dreams, 2019.
Edition of 8

New Home; large, 2018.
Edition of 6

New Home; small, 2018.
Edition of 12

Orange-Red Dyed Quills; Print, 2019.
Edition of 9

She Wore Stripes Print; Sky Blue, 2019.
Edition of 11

Teeth; print, 2018.
Edition of 6

Mama’s Favorite Pot, 2019.

JORDAN ANN CRAIG

Born in 1992, San Jose, California. Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Selected solo exhibitions
2023		sharp tounge, soft skin, Hales Gallery, NY, USA
2021		Your Wildsest Dreams, October Gallery, London, UK
2020		Your Favorite Color is Yellow, Roswell Museum and Art, NM, USA
2019		Bead Paintings, Loom Gallery, Gallup, NM, USA
2018		Pot Paintings, School For Advanced Research Dubin Studio, Santa Fe, NM, USA New Printworks, The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland
2017		Marmo e Punti, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia Galleria, Venice, Italy
2016		When I Close My Eyes, Nearburg Gallery, Hanover, NH, USA
2015		We Built Homes Inside Homes and Homes in Trees, Barrows Rotunda, Hanover, NH, USA

Selected group exhibitions
2023		Transvangarde: Pushing Boundaries, October Gallery, London, UK Patterns of Knowing, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA Hales Project Room, Hales Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Art Dubai Art Fair, with October Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2022		Rituals of Devotion, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA Reclaiming Identity, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI, USA Tangible/Intangible, K Art, Buffalo, NY, USA Self-Determined: A Contemporary Art Survey, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA Art Basel Miami, with Hales Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2021		Phantom Haptics, Friend of a Friend Gallery, Denver, CO, USA @Creation, Native American Arts Festival, Idyllwild Arts, California, USA Frieze New York, virtual with October Gallery, London, UK
2020		Protecting the Cultural Community, virtual with Poeh Cultural Art Center, Pojoaque, NM, USA We have teeth too, Berkeley Arts Center, CA, USA Emergence 2020, Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach, virtual with October Gallery, London, UK
2019		Portal II, October Gallery, London, UK Pattern, Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK Some Kind of Texture, Pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA IM: EDGE, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM, USA Sovereign Santa Fe, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, NM, USA The Young Americans, Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol, UK
2018		Antique American Indian Art Show, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Summer AiR, De Bouwput Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sex, Guns & Motif, De Bouwput Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands DNA; Visual Experience, Gold Crush Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2017		Art Yellow Book VOL 3, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gimpo Si, South Korea
2016		NO DAPL Standing Rock Benefit Exhibition, Rogue Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA WoCa’s Artists’ Book Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth,TX, USA UNBOUND VOL. VI Juried Artists’ Book Exhibition, Artistree Gallery, South Pomfret, VT, USA Pattern Paintings, Perspectives On Design, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hanover, NH, USA
2015		Seven Stars Arts Festival, Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, Vermont, USA Studio Art Senior Exhibition, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Thinking Through Actuality, The Book Arts Exhibition, Baker Library, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA From Life, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Awards
2021		Art Kala Honored Artist, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2019		Artist in Business Fellowship and Grant, First Peoples Fund, Rapid City, SD, USA
2018		Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe,NM, USA
2017		Resident Artists’ Coordinator Fellow, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy H. Allen Brooks Traveling Fellowship, Italy, Amsterdam, Ireland and London
2015		High Honors for Studio Art Thesis in painting and printmaking, Dartmouth College Perspectives on Design Award and Exhibition, Hanover, NH, USA The Dartmouth Book Arts Prize winner in hand binding, Hanover, NM, USA Citation of Excellence in Senior Seminar, Dartmouth College Class of 1961 Office of Residential Life Purchase Award , Dartmouth College Stacey Coverdale Award for highest GPA amongst graduating Native students Class of 1960 Curatorial Fellowship, Black Family Visual Arts Center
2014		Neukom Digital Arts and Innovation Scholar, Dartmouth College Presidential Scholar in Studio Art Department, Dartmouth College
2012		Citation of Excellence in Painting I and Painting II, Dartmouth College
2011		Citation of Excellence in Painting I, Dartmouth College Citation of Excellence in Collage, Bridging the Gap, Dartmouth College

Collections

A LAB Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Roswell, NM, USA
Cork Printmakers Collection, Cork, Ireland
Forge Collection, Taghkanic, NY, USA
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Kala Art Institute Collection, Berkeley, CA, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Overland Park, KS
School for Advanced Research Collection, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM, USA

JORDAN ANN CRAIG

Career Highlights

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