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Award-winning artist, writer, curator, and innovator, Anique Jordan, looks to answer the question of possibility in everything she creates. Working for over a decade at the crossroad of community economic development and art, Jordan’s practice stems from and returns to the communities that inform it. As an artist, Jordan’s work plays with the foundations of traditional Trinidadian carnival and the theory of hauntology challenging historical narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. She works across temporalities bringing historical data towards a contemporary analysis. This work creates space to reinterpret the archives offering a new and speculative vision of the future. Principally interested in Canadian histories which speak to Black Canada, women, working class communities and explores the relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples, Jordan’s work ultimately questions the authority of the Canadian state.
Jordan has lectured on her artistic and community engaged curatorial practice as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in numerous institutions across the Americas including University of the West Indies, MIT, University of Toronto and UCLA. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, participating in residencies around the world and exhibiting in galleries such as Art Gallery of Guelph, Doris McCarthy Gallery, the Wedge Collection, Art Gallery of Windsor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of York University, Gallery 44, and Y+ Contemporary. She is represented in public and private collections nationally, including the Wedge Collection, Toronto Dominion Bank, and the University of Toronto.
In 2017 Jordan was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist of the year award, she recently completed a 2017-2018 artist residency at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago) and is the 2018-19 Osgoode Hall Law School Artist-in-Residence.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Former Mother, CONTACT Photography Festival, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, ON
(forthcoming)
2015 Possessed, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 lets talk about sex, bb., Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON (forthcoming)
Salon 44, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2018 Back & all, The Bentway and Friends of Pan Am, Toronto, ON
Kingsbrae Sculpture Garden Biennale, St. Andrews, NB
2017 That’s So Gay – Uprising, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
Crip Interior (MIXER), Tangled Arts Gallery, Toronto, ON
150 Acts: Art, Activism and Impact, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Migrating the Margins, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON
Arts Against Post-Racialism, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Arts Against Post-Racialism, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, ON
Arts Against Post-Racialism, OCADU, Toronto, ON
Arts Against Post-Racialism, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
In the Shadows of Paradise, Y+ contemporary, Toronto, ON
2016 New-Found-Lands: Exploring historical and contemporary connections between Newfoundland
and the Caribbean diaspora, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. Johns, NL
Idea of the North, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Salon 44, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
Proof 23, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
Position as Desired, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
Tumult, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
2015 Scratch and Mix, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON