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= Jordan Strafer = Jordan Strafer(born 1990) is an artist working primarily in video, based in Brooklyn, New York.. She received her BFA from The New School in 2016 and her MFA from Bard College in 2019.

Biography
Strafer was born in Miami, and has a close connection to her grandmother. PEAK LOVE HEAVEN FOREVER is based on the story of taking her father on an air ambulance from London to Miami while attending graduate school at Bard College.

Early life and education
She received her BFA from The New School in 2016 and her MFA from Bard College in 2019.

Public artworks and response
In 2015 Weist's public artwork Reach went viral. The artwork consists of a single word ("parbunkells"), that had never been used on the Internet, installed on a billboard in Forest Hills, Queens. The public response to the project was wide-ranging and there was an extensive amount of social media activity related to the billboard. Entrepreneurial attempts to capitalize on the project included the creation of T-shirts and other merchandise on Redbubble and the sale of a domain using the word parbunkells which was listed on eBay for $20,000. In a work called After, About, With Weist spent two years, from 2013–2015, manipulating the search results for the artist Haim Steinbach as a way to explore how meaning about artists' work is codified online. Weist was selected for a public artwork commission initiated by the Department of Cultural Affairs in New York City in 2019. As part of that project, she embedded with the NYC Department of Records and Information Services and created artworks that were classified as government records. In 2022 Weist's second billboard-based project premiered in Times Square. In this work, Weist advertised a short film she made called Governing Body and chose to use a promotional design for the film that Motion Picture Association of America disapproved for public use. The National Coalition Against Censorship issued a statement of support for Weist's Times Square billboard, calling on the Motion Picture Association to update its standards.

Exhibitions
Strafer’s work has been included in group exhibitions at SculptureCenter, New York (2020); Red Tracy, Copenhagen, (2020–21); The New Museum, New York (2021); Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (2021); and Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2023). Strafer’s video, PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER (2022), was presented as part of the Currents section of the 60th New York Film Festival in 2022. Solo presentations of her work include PUNCHLINE at Participant Inc, New York in 2022, LOOPHOLE at Secession, Vienna, and MERCY NO NO at Heidi, Berlin in 2023.

Recognition
In 2015, Weist was given a national advertising award from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America for her public artwork Reach. She received the Net-based Audience Prize from Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel, Switzerland) in 2016.

Books
Weist is the author of the novel Sexy Librarian.

Notable works in public collections

 * Definitions (2020), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * Demonstration (2020), Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * From the Future (2020), Art Institute of Chicago
 * Giuliani (2020), Brooklyn Museum
 * International (2020), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
 * Rubrics (2020), MIT List Visual Arts Center