Jordan Clayton

Jordan Clayton is an award-winning artist who specializes in painting and drawing. His work has been exhibited internationally from the very start of his practice and now belongs in several private collections.

The current objective of his work is to monumentalize the unseen and unnoticed by exploring the processes and growth of organisms, objects, and ephemera whose existences may or may not exist to the naked eye. He is interested in restructuring narratives that intersect between art, science, fiction, and queerness in a melange that forecasts a reality only a few degrees separated from the present. His painted “worlds” employ techniques rooted in abstract and surrealist painting tropes, creating imagery that feels familiar, yet still boarders on the fantastical.

University of Ottawa

Selected Solo:

2017 That Which Was, Also Isn't. Georgina Arts Centre, Georgina ON.
2017 Selected Works. Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON.
2015 A Dialogue with Taxonomy. Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa ON.

Selected Group:
2018 Saturate. Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto ON
2018 Foundations/Futures. Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa ON
2017 555. Galerie Youn, Montreal QC
2017 New Work. Galerie Youn, Montreal QC
2016 A very Youn(g) Christmas, Montreal QC
2016 WT!DYP, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON.
2016 Baycrest: The Brain Project, Toronto ON.
2016 Twitter Art Exhibit, Trygive Lie Gallery New York NY
2015 WT!DYP, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON.

-Full CV on website