Who
Jordan Holms
Art Instructor, Art School LLC
Jordan Holms
Art Instructor, Art School LLC

Jordan Holms is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and curator who lives and works in Vancouver. Holms' art practice examines how space is organized, materialized, and made to mean. Her research interests include critical geography, second-wave feminist art, domestic crafts, labor politics, and reality television. Holms has exhibited internationally in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada and her work is held in multiple private collections. Her paintings have been featured at BAMPFA, St. Joseph's Arts Society, and in Adidas's San Francisco Market Street storefront. Holms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Critical and Cultural Practices from Emily Carr University in 2015 and a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019. Her Master's thesis "After Necessity: Codifications of Labor, Space, and Difference in Mierle Laderman Ukeles's Maintenance Art" was received with distinction. Holms is represented by Marrow Gallery in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset district.

 

See her work at https://www.jordanholms.com.

What is your favorite museum?

The Musée D'Orsay in Paris.

What’s the weirdest job you ever had?

I once worked simultaneously at a butcher shop and a veterinary clinic.

What's your favorite word?

 

Sensucht - from German: "the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what” or “a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one’s home.”