Artist CV
Personal Details
Born: 1987, London, England
Lives and works in: Melbourne, Australia
Education
2012–2014 MFA, Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2007–2011 BFA, Fine Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
2009 Certificate in Contemporary Art Theory, Portland Art Institute, Portland, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Tracing Echoes, Arcadia Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2022 The Shape of Silence, Lumen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020 Between the Lines, Northstar Art Space, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 New Forms, Veritas Art Fair, London, UK
2023 Surface Tensions, Atelier 9, Berlin, Germany
2021 Material Memory, Horizon Collective, San Francisco, USA
Awards and Prizes
2024 Finalist, Global Emerging Artist Prize, London, UK
2022 Recipient, Melbourne Arts Development Grant, Australia
2020 Winner, North American Contemporary Painting Award, USA
Residencies
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Fjordhaven Arts Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland
2021 Residency Program, The Lighthouse Studios, Wellington, New Zealand
Permanent Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Melbourne, Australia
City of Reykjavík Art Collection, Iceland
The Stanton Corporate Collection, New York, USA
Bibliography
2024 Morgan Lee, “Jordan Avery Explores the Poetics of Absence”, ArtReview Asia, Issue 18.
2023 Review of The Shape of Silence, Sydney Cultural Times, Sydney, Australia.
2021 Catalogue essay by Dr. Fiona Caldwell, Material Memory, Horizon Collective, San Francisco, USA.
