Anique Jordan's family immigrated from Trinidad. She was born and grew up in
Scarborough. She received a B.A. in International Development at
York University, Toronto (2011) and a Masters of Environmental Studies at York University (2015), a Latin America and Caribbean Studies Graduate Diploma, again from York University (2015) and a Business and the Environment Graduate Diploma from the
Schulich School of Business, Toronto (2015) as well as an Entrepreneurship Certificate, at the Schulich Centre for Executive Education, Toronto (2015). In 2012, she was gifted a family archive from a cousin which told of her family's Caribbean roots. She used it as the basis for her Masters thesis at York (2015) titled
Possessed: A Genealogy of Black Women, Hauntology and Art as Survival and is writing a book with that title.
Possessed was based on the family history of a particular group of Black loyalists, who became freed people of colour, in the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago. It is an autobiographical account that reflects a larger historical context. All that she knew were the stories she found on television in the form of a joke or as being enslaved as in the violent program
Roots. In 2015, Jordan was invited to be one of 10 black artists accompanying a
Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the
Art Gallery of Ontario. The work she created was of her mother and elder aunts wearing uniforms for the
war of 1812. Her work was praised as offering an alternate view to Harris's version. In 2017, she was included in a panel discussion accompanying the opening of
Position as Required, a show at the
Art Gallery of Windsor and in a show titled
The Arts Against Post-Racialism: Strengthening Resistance Against Contemporary Canadian Blackface, spearheaded at McGill University, Montreal, for which she created
Scream Café, a performance in which audience members were invited to participate and witness an act of audible or silent screaming. In 2020, she curated an exhibition called
Three-Thirty for the Contact Photography Festival in Toronto about cultural landmarks in Scarborough’s
Malvern neighbourhood and ideas of power, land and agencies that define it. She titled the exhibition
Three-Thirty to play off the after-school programs on which many kids in Scarborough rely. In the summer of 2020, inspired by a social media post following the
murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers, she created
We Have Done Enough, a installation for the Nia Centre for the Arts that challenged the viewer to consider the significant work that Black people have put into explaining and fighting against racism. She is a member of the collective Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) which she founded, a network and resource sharing platform of Black women artists and arts workers across Canada, begun in 2016. A 2015 photo work by Jordan,
Sixth Company Battalion – The Aunties (1/3) is in the collection of the
Art Gallery of Guelph. ''Mas' at 94 Chestnut'' is in the collection of the
Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2024, Anique Jordan presented a solo exhibition of new work at Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, titled
Underbelly. The solo exhibition closed with a conversation between Jordan and Fred Moten, moderated by Dr. Evelyn Amponsah. ==Private life==