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Jordan Strafer (b. Miami, FL, 1990) is an American artist and filmmaker.[1]

Practice

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Using video, film, installation, handmade props, and drawing[2], Jordan Strafer reveals the mechanisms of power and societal dysfunction.[3]

Life and Career

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Strafer was born in Miami, Florida, USA. She holds a BA in Media Studies from The New School’s Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts (New York, USA), a BFA in Visual Art from Parsons School of Design (New York, USA),[4] and an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (New York, USA).[5]

Strafer has participated in several group exhibitions, including:

Caroline’s Home, Maison Populaire, Montreuil (2024)[6]

Illiberal Arts, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen (2023)[7]

Illiberal Arts, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (2021)[8]

This End the Sun, The New Museum, New York (2021)[9]

In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York (2020)[10]


Solo exhibitions of her work include:

DECADENCE, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2024)[11]

Hammer Projects: Jordan Strafer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024)[12]

No Spank, Hot Wheels, London (2024)[13]

Jordan Strafer: Trilogy, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2023)[14]

LOOPHOLE, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Arts Foundation, Stockholm (2023)[15]

LOOPHOLE, Secession, Vienna (2023)[16]

MERCY NO NO, Heidi, Berlin (2023)[17]

PUNCHLINE, Participant Inc, New York (2022)[18]

Film Festivals

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Strafer’s film have featured in film festivals internationally. These include:

New York Film Festival (2024), No Spank[19]

International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024), LOOPHOLE[20]

New York Film Festival (2023), LOOPHOLE[21]

New York Film Festival (2022), PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER[22]

Filmography

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DECADENCE, writer and director (2024)[23]

No Spank, writer and director (2024)

LOOPHOLE, writer and director (2023)[24]

MERCY NO NO, writer and director (2023)[25]

PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER, writer and director (2022)[26]

SOS, writer and director (2021)[27]

PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure), writer and director (2019)[28]

Judy Smolak: Lifestyle, Ideas, Family, Biography & Net-Worth, writer and director (2020)[29]

References

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  1. ^ https://www.frieze.com/article/jordan-strafer-sos
  2. ^ https://elephant.art/video-artist-jordan-strafer-on-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-making-creative-work-18012021/
  3. ^ https://flash---art.com/article/jordan-strafer/
  4. ^ https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/jordan-strafer/
  5. ^ https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=16063
  6. ^ https://www.zerodeux.fr/reviews/carolines-home-a-la-maison-pop/
  7. ^ https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/illiberal-lives-at-ludwig-forum-aachen-29060
  8. ^ https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/illiberal-arts-at-haus-der-kulturen-der-welt-hkw-berlin/
  9. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/400703/2021-summer-exhibitions/
  10. ^ https://flash---art.com/article/in-practice-total-disbelief-sculpturecenter-new-york/
  11. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/603009/jordan-straferdecadence/
  12. ^ https://ocula.com/institutions/hammer-museum-los-angeles/exhibitions/hammer-projects-jordan-strafer/
  13. ^ https://www.postartclarity.net/2024/03/hot-wheels-jordan-strafer.html
  14. ^ https://glasstire.com/2023/10/15/review-jordan-strafers-psychodrama-at-the-contemporary-arts-museum-houston/
  15. ^ https://www.c-print.se/post/loophole
  16. ^ https://secession.at/ausstellung_jordan_strafer_en
  17. ^ https://www.frieze.com/ko/event/jordan-strafer-mercy-no-no?language=en
  18. ^ https://www.flaunt.com/blog/jordan-strafer-first-time-offenders
  19. ^ https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/daily/62nd-new-york-film-festival-currents-announced/
  20. ^ https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/loophole
  21. ^ https://www.filmlinc.org/films/currents-program-3-inside-out/loophole/
  22. ^ https://mubi.com/en/gr/films/peak-heaven-love-forever
  23. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/616045/jordan-strafer-s-decadence
  24. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/616045/jordan-strafer-s-decadence
  25. ^ https://www.heidigallery.com/p/jordan-strafer-mercy-no-no/
  26. ^ https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/jordan-strafer/
  27. ^ https://www.frieze.com/article/jordan-strafer-sos
  28. ^ https://www.sculpture-center.org/materials/12850/jordan-strafer-pep-process-entanglement-procedure-channel-1-of-2
  29. ^ https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2022/01/21/jordan-strafer-interviewed/