Photograph by Blair J. Meadows, 2024
Artist Statement
Jordon Ritchie (b. 1998, Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas) is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on painting and printmaking. Raised in Hamilton, Long Island, Ritchie’s practice explores gender, identity, and queerness through representations of the body and the landscape. Often centering on self-portraiture, his work negotiates ideas of tenderness and otherness by positioning the body with local flora and fauna through a mixed-media approach. Ritchie also has an emerging curatorial practice that centers contemporary Caribbean art.
About
Jordon Ritchie is an interdisciplinary artist from The Bahamas. Ritchie received his Associate of Fine Art from the University of The Bahamas in 2021. He has participated in various exhibitions in New Providence and the prestigious Fuze Art Fair. His work is also in notable collections like the Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Collection, the Dawn Davies Collection, and the D’Aguilar Art Foundation. Ritchie received the E. Clement Bethel Award in Outstanding Art Community in Long Island in 2024. Ritchie currently works as the Curatorial and Design Coordinator at The Current: Baha Mar Gallery and Art Center.