BIO

Jordan Rathus is an Artist, Filmmaker, and Educator based in New York City. She received her BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts: New Genres from Columbia University.

Rathus is associated with Upfor Gallery in Portland, OR. Screenings, Installations, and Performances of Rathus’s hybrid media work have been held at New York venues such as The Jewish Museum; Walter Reade Theater; The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Fisher Landau Center for Art; Invisible Dog Art Center; Safe Gallery; The Knockdown Center; DUMBO Film Festival; Woodstock Film Festival; Moving Image New York; LeRoy Neiman Gallery; and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. Beyond New York, Rathus’s work has traveled to international destinations such as Stavanger, Norway; Malmo, Sweden; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Tel Aviv, Israel; and domestically to Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Arlington, VA; New Haven, CT; Louisville, KY; and Portland, OR.

Rathus directed Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischoff’s music video MOTHER, a 2017 arrangement of the Pink Floyd original. Rathus was the Editor and Sound Designer for Michael Smith’s film and live performance piece, Excuse Me!? I’’m Looking for the Fountain of Youth’, and was the Associate Producer for Randy Blair’s podcast starring Ann Dowd: Mrs. Lowenstein.

Some notable contributions from Rathus’s Production Management Career include providing her logistics expertise for two of Matthew Barney’s films: ‘River of Fundament’ and ‘Redoubt;’ William Kentridge’s performance ‘I am not me, the horse is not mine;’ Matthew Ritchie’s film ‘Monstrance;’ and Dominique Gonzalez Foerster and Ari Benjamin-Meyers’ ‘K.62.” Her television credits includes shows for Bravo; PBS Kids; Nick Jr.; Cartoon Network; TLC; and E!.

Rathus harnesses her unique set of experiences in Film, Television, Performance, and The Visual Arts, to offer Production Consulting services to visual artists who make films, through her company, There Now Please.

Rathus has taught Filmmaking, Photography, and Visual Art at Rutgers University and The College of New Jersey; and she has been a Visiting Artist and Critic at the School of Visual Arts; Columbia University; Parsons The New School for Design; LaGuardia Community College; and Kunstskolen I Rogaland in Norway. Rathus teaches Filmmaking and Film History at Horace Mann School in New York and created the Horace Mann Summer Film Institute.

Rathus was a co-director of the artist-run Torrance Shipman Gallery from 2013-2017. She has participated in Panel Discussions at Columbia University and the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, OR, and she was an Artist in Residence at Ox-Bow school of Art in Saugatuck, MI and Catwalk Institute in Catskill, New York. Rathus has contributed to various publications such as Arcade Project and Interventions Journal; and her work has been featured in Art Ltd.; NY Arts Mag; Visual Art Source; Art Papers; Artslant; and Over the Moon.

Rathus’s Travelogue Series, which includes her bodies of work That’s Why I’m Here and FERNWEH: FARSICKNESS, features Rathus playing the on-camera role of a comedic character, created by Rathus: a hybrid tourist-documentarian who roams the globe, searching for alternative ways of life and existential fulfillment wherever she can find it.

Stemming from her deep appreciation of travel and her interest in creating immersive experiences for audiences across diverse genres and contexts, Rathus recently launched an arts-aligned travel advisory service: There Now Please: A Travel and Culture Space. Her company collaborates with artists, art historians, librarians, curators, and other niche specialists to provide uniquely-curated travel journeys for her fellow wanderers. There Now Please also orchestrates travel logistics for fellow artists’ and filmmakers’ studios.

Rathus lives with her husband, who is also a Filmmaker, and her two children, in Bronx, New York, and Westport, Connecticut.