Jordan Rountree (b.1990, Paris, France) began his visual art training at the Ateliers du Carrousel programme in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. After studying life drawing and traditional artmaking techniques, his initiation into performance matured from working under the artist practices of Jasmin Blasco and Cyprien Gaillard; he later performed in Terence Koh’s “Adansonias” (2008) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

Rountree has since performed in national theaters and avant-garde spaces in Europe, including the Théâtre de la Bastille, the Pompidou Center in Paris, as well as the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. He has also directed workshops at the Espace Van Gogh in Arles.

Personal, emotional, and autobiographical, Rountree’s work primarily takes the form of text, audiovisual recordings, woodcuts, and performance. Using Surrealist literary techniques to excavate raw material from his life and memory, his largest work is the ongoing performance art series CHTHONIC ARCHIVE, which he describes as a “novelist’s striptease” over time. His hybrid performance style is formally influenced by the traditions of 14th century Japanese Noh and early 20th century American radio drama. 

Jordan Rountree is based in Los Angeles and Berlin and represented by Baert Gallery.