Casey Kaplan
Jordan Casteel Elected to Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced today that it has elected five new members: Gerrard Bushell, Jordan Casteel, Yan Huo, Pablo Legorreta, and Steve Stoute. The election took place at the December 11, 2023 meeting of the Board and was announced by Candace K. Beinecke and Hamilton (“Tony”) E. James, Co-Chairs of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Bushell, Ms. Casteel, and Mr. Stoute will serve as Borough Trustees; Mr. Huo and Mr. Legorreta will serve as Elective Trustees.
“We are pleased to welcome five dynamic individuals to our Board,” said Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Beinecke and James. “Each of these trustees bring distinct skills and perspectives, and we are thrilled to work with them in their new capacity at The Met.”
Jordan Casteel is a New York-based artist. She received her BA from Agnes Scott College in Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2014). In addition to The Met, Ms. Casteel’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Ms. Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021).
For more information about the new elections to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Board of Trustees, please visit metmuseum.org.