JORDAN ZAYAS KELLY is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, textiles, and prose, exploring the intersections of identity, material history, and archival memory. She employs historically charged materials—sugar, denim, raw cotton, and steel—as shorthand for the architectures and infrastructures that redact and bury narratives of labor. Through quotidian gestures, her work draws attention to histories rendered invisible by institutional record, reframing extraction as a site of aesthetic intervention.
She earned her B.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies and Visual Art from Columbia University, New York (2022) and recently completed her M.A. in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (2025). She is a recent recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award by the Royal Society of Sculptors. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions internationally in Los Angeles, London, and New York, including London Fashion Week, as well as in publications such as Vogue, Office Magazine, and Flash Art. Grounded in investigating power structures within archives, Kelly works to reframe the personal and honor traditions often rendered ahistorical, attuning audiences to the everyday gestures through which resistance and memory endure.