Natural Disasters as Hairstyles

acrylic on canvas

24 x 18 inches

Courtesy of The Artist

Jordan Bruner is an artist and filmmaker working across painting, animation, and ceramics. Her work centers on women, animals, and imagined places, mixing joy, tension, and humor. She uses color and composition to create worlds that feel inviting at first glance but reveal something more uneasy beneath the surface. Past projects include work with clients such as The New York Times, Google, Eve Ensler, The Atlantic, and Warby Parker. Jordan has previously taught classes at VisArts.

Jordan's work has been exhibited at institutions including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she currently has a solo painting exhibition at Amuse (February-August 2026). She has also exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, where she participated in the museum's biennial exhibition (2025) and will have an animation installation in the group exhibition Seamless (April-August 2026). In 2023, she had her first solo painting exhibition at Pairo's Gallery in Richmond, VA. Her animation work has also been shown at CADAF Miami. She is a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting (2026-2027).

Her animation work has been screened internationally at festivals including Pictoplasma and LA Film Festival. In 2013, she received the Art Directors Club Young Guns Award for her directing and animation work.

Jordan has contributed to public art through commissions with MTA Arts & Design. She has lectured at conferences including Pictoplasma and Playgrounds, and has mentored MFA thesis students at the School of Visual Arts. She is also the co-founder and curator of the Richmond Animation Festival.

Jordan received her BFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lived in New York City from 2007 to 2019 before returning to Richmond, where she is currently based.