Jordan Reznick

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Jordan Reznick (he/they) is a transgender artist and photo historian. They received their PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz, an MA in Visual and Critical Studies and MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts, and BFA in Photography from New York University. Their images “voice the everyday intimate side of broader social histories to help us see race, gender, life, and land in a new light” often in conversation with academic research concerning Native North American, settler colonial, and transgender histories of photography. 

Reznick has exhibited nationally and internationally at Aperture Gallery, New York, Freiraum für Fotografie, Berlin, and elsewhere with scholarly publications such as “Indigenous Space: Hodinöhsö:ni’ Sky World and the Territories of American Art” (American Art, 2023) and "Through the Guillotine Mirror: Claude Cahun’s Theory of Trans against the Void" (Art Journal, 2022). They are currently Assistant Professor of Art History with a concentration in American Studies at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and have held previous appointments at the California College of the Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute, and as a visiting professor in Art History at Bennington College in the Spring of 2022.

Sources:

• Artist's website 
• Grinnell College profile

Images: left, x, Ithaca, New York, 2018, right, Bertha, Buffalo, New York, 2018, both from their series, Gallery of Illustrious Queers.