Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson (born October 9, 1980 in New York City) is an American artist living and working in New York City and Los Angeles. His work is known for social commentary and entertainment, using film, sculpture, installation and performance.

Wolfson graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2003 receiving his BFA in Sculpture.

Wolfson was awarded the Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation in 2009.

Wolfson's 2014 work, Female Figure is an animatronic sculpture of a woman dressed in a negligee, thigh high vinyl boots and a green half witch mask, covered in dirt marks and scuffs. The figure dances seductively, speaking in a male voice. Using facial recognition technology, she locks eyes with viewers through a mirror. The work addresses the violence of objectification.

Work by Wolfson is held in public collections worldwide, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

As of 2016 he is represented by David Zwirner Gallery and Sadie Coles HQ.

Wolfson's immersive 3d VR work "Real Violence' is being exhibited as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial and immediately became the focus of media attention due to the graphic intensity of the acts portrayed therein.

In 2014, a selection of Wolfson’s video work was exhibited as part of the 6th Glasgow International. In 2013, Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo/le Poseur marked the most comprehensive survey of his work to date, organized by the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent.

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