isaacbobjordan@gmail.com

@isaacbjordan

About:

Isaac Jordan is a Manchester based artist working primarily with small scale painting. He works in series and in one sitting. A video of a group of friends dancing or stills from sci-fi films are used as starting points to explore different arrangements.

Recent shows include; Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery (2022); Jasper Howard, Isaac Jordan: Paintings, PS Mirabel, Manchester (2022); Pushing Up Daisies, Soft Spot, Manchester (2021) and BEEP Painting Prize, Swansea (2020).

He received a Spike Island Graduate Fellowship (2020/21) and was recently awarded a Haworth Trust New Graduate Award (2022) at Paradise Works and the Emerging Artist Prize at the Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open (2022).

Education:

2017 – 2020 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of the West of England, Bristol

2016 – 2017 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art

Exhibitions:

2023 - Air Open, Air Gallery, Altrincham

2022 - Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery

2022 - Salad Booth, The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester

2022 - Corridor Gallery, with Jasper Howard, The Whitaker, Rossendale

2022 - Jasper Howard, Isaac Jordan: Paintings, Drawings & Collaborative Prints, Valley Artist Studios, Rossendale

2022 - Awol Studios x Comme Ca Art, Awol Studios, Manchester

2022 - Jasper Howard, Isaac Jordan: Paintings, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2021 - SLAP-BANG, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Castlefield Gallery NAS Warrington

2021 - Without Borders, Elysium gallery (touring), Swansea

2021 - Graduate Fellows Exhibition, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol

2021 - Pushing Up Daisies, Soft Spot, Manchester

2020 - Kunst im Traum, Teil I, HilbertRaum, Berlin

2020 - BEEP Painting Prize, Swansea

2020 - That Chopping Sound, SPACE gallery, Bristol

2020 - The Manchester Open Exhibition, HOME, Manchester

2019 - Air Traffic, The Talleyrand, Manchester

2019 - Public Hearing, The Station, Bristol

2019 - Why Smash Atoms, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2019 - Whoever Was Using This Bed, The Flat, The Old Post Office, Bristol

2019 - Micro, AIR Gallery, Altrincham

2019 - A Small, Good Thing, Latch, Bristol

2019 - Fake Covers For Fake Music, HilbertRaum, Berlin

2018 - Herb Juke, The Talleyrand, Manchester

Residencies/Awards:

2022/23 - Haworth Trust New Graduate Award 2022, Paradise Works, Manchester

2022 - Emerging Artist Prize, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open

2020/21 - Spike Island Graduate Fellowship, Bristol