Jordan McGirk
Lives in St. Louis, Missouri
Education
2011 Master’s in Fine Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Selected Exhibitions
(*solo exhibitions)
2019 Winter Group Show, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Royale: Fundraiser/Art Auction, Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition, Art St. Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Blue, Webster Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Summer Group Show, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 The Social Policing of Gender and Criminalization of Queerness, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, guest curated by Lorenzo Triburgo
2018 We Will Not Leave Wanting, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri*
2018 Body Work, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
2018 Cleary Human III, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
2018 Body: Exhibition, LIT Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2016 SCC Invitational Exhibition, FAB Gallery, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
2016 Back to Our Foundations, The Elephant Room, Chicago, Illinois
2015 Wicked Kings Do Wicked Things, The Millitzer Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri*
2015 Portrait and the Primordial, AVC Gallery, Lancaster, California, curated by Christine Mugnolo
2014 Homunculi, The Millitzer Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2013 Call Collect, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington D.C.
2011 Knockout, Prak-Sis Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2010 The Fox and the Hedgehog, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2010 First Year MFA Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Publications and Online Exhibitions
2019 McGirk, Jordan, Art St. Louis XXXV, The Exhibition, Fall 2019. https://hecmedia.org/posts/art-st-louis-xxxv-the-exhibition
2018 McGrath, Daniel. Shalin Ye: Reflections and Clearly Human III, All The Art: The Visual Quarterly of St. Louis, Fall 2018. https://issuu.com/alltheartstl/docs/fall2018/1?ff
2018 Robertson, Bryan. Youthful Convulsions and the Confines of Patriarchy, May 18, 2018.
2018 Small Works 2018 Applicant Exhibit, https://trestlegallery.submittable.com/gallery
2013 Eichwald, Katelyn. Blood Brothers: A Conversation with Jordan McGirk, The Face Painters, December 13, 2013. http://www.thefacepainters.org/Blood-Brothers-A-Conversation-with-Jordan-McGirk
2011 MFA Thesis Graduate Catalogue, Washington University in St. Louis, written by Aditi Machado
Residencies & Awards
2019 July 2019 Resident, Paul Artspace, Florissant, MO
2011 Eleanor Dupree and Titus Van Haitsma Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis
2009 Outstanding Senior in Painting Award, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
2007 Talented Student-Art and Design Scholarship, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Volunteerism, Artist Talks, & Community Involvement
Artist Talk: Remix and Jordan McGirk, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Committee Member/Curator, The Parish Gallery, Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Louis, MO
Participant, Open Studios STL 2018, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Guest Speaker/Educator, The Millitzer Gallery and Studios, St. Louis for Webster University and Washington University in St. Louis