Casey Kaplan
November 17, 2025, 7:00pm
McNally Jackson Seaport
Jordan Casteel and Legacy Russell in conversation
Reservations are recommended. To RSVP, please visit McNally Jackson’s website.
Jordan Casteel received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA for Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York. Other recent museum solo exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, presented at both the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In 2019, High Line Art commissioned a 1,400-square-foot mural of The Baayfalls, a 2017 painting depicting two Harlem street vendors, connecting public spaces of different neighborhoods across New York City. Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021). Casteel is represented by Casey Kaplan (New York) and Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Milan, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul).
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of downtown avant-garde arts institution The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2022-23 Pompeii Commitment Digital Fellow, a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow, a 2024-25 Lunder Institute for American Art Fellow, and a 2025-2026 Obama Leader awardee. Her first book is the critically acclaimed Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Books, 2020). Her second book BLACK MEME (Verso Books, 2024) was shortlisted for the 2024 The National Book Critics Circle Award. Russell’s first chapbook of poems is GAY POMPEII (GenderFail, 2025).