Jordan Kantor

Rooted in painting, American artist Jordan Kantor works with painting, photography, drawing, and printmaking and uses a wide-ranging aesthetic vocabulary that is unified by conceptual logic, rather than a singular aesthetic approach. For Kantor, it is not unusual for figurative paintings that merge contemporary photographic and art-historical sources, geometric and gestural abstractions, and collages that incorporate mechanically produced and handmade gestures, to occupy the same exhibition. Kantor uses these disparate traditions and techniques to address questions central to discourses in painting, revisiting several touchstone debates of modernist painting within a twenty-first century context.

Kantor's artwork has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,  Churner and Churner in New York, The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Ratio 3 in San Francisco, The Seattle Art Museum, Art 40 Basel Statements, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Johnen Galerie in Berlin, Thomas Dane Gallery in London, and Artists Space in New York. In 2010, Kantor became the inaugural recipient of ArtNow International’s Pioneer Art Award, which includes a residency at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, France.