Jordan Carter

Jordan Carter is a curator at Dia Art Foundation in New York. A former associate curator in the Art Institute’s department of Modern and Contemporary Art, he joined the museum in 2017 and curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Mounira Al Solh: I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous (2018) with Hendrik Folkerts; Ellen Gallagher: Are We Obsidian? (2018–19); Benjamin Patterson: When Elephants Fight, It Is the Frogs That Suffer—A Sonic Graffiti (2019); Richard Hunt: Scholar’s Rock or Stone of Hope or Love of Bronze (2020) with Ann Goldstein; Ray Johnson ℅ (2021) with Caitlin Haskell; and stanley brouwn (2021) with Ann Goldstein.

Prior to his time at the museum, Jordan was a curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center. He has also served as Fluxus Collection Intern at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; a curatorial intern at the Studio Museum in Harlem; and a research intern at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. 

He earned his master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.