SHELLEY JORDON
Iris Project Resident: October, 2021
Shelley Jordon is a Portland, Oregon-based painter and moving-image artist who explores interior and exterior worlds and connections between past and present experiences. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she uses traditional drawing and painting media applied to two-dimensional artwork, animation and installation to express the complex nature of memory; physical and emotional, collective and personal.
Selected solo exhibitions include; The Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, the Whitebox Gallery Portland, OR and the Frye Museum, in Seattle, WA. Her work has been exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, The Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles and at international venues in Italy, Spain, Israel, Great Britain, Australia and Germany. Her projects have been supported by the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Center for the Humanities, OSU, a Jerusalem International Fellowship Award, two Oregon Arts Commission Individual Fellowship Awards, a Fulbright-Hayes Group Travel Research Grant and artist residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo, Djerassi, The Studios of Key West and Playa. Jordon holds an MFA from Brooklyn College of the City of New York, a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in NYC, and she is a Professor of Art at Oregon State University.
This residency program is possible thanks to The Ford Family Foundation's support and partnerships with Yucca Valley Material Lab and Venice Arts.