Jordan Carter

Jordan Carter joined Dia Art Foundation as curator and co–department head in 2021. Since then, he has curated exhibitions of work by stanley brouwn, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Maren Hassinger, and Mary Heilmann, among others, for Dia Beacon, and commissioned a new moving-image installation by Tony Cokes for Dia Bridgehampton.

Forthcoming projects include presentations of Lucas Samaras’s and Keith Sonnier’s work, a multipart commission by Cameron Rowland, and Renée Green’s first major solo museum exhibition in New York featuring new and historical works, all opening at Dia Beacon in 2024–25. Carter oversees the preservation of and programming around Dia’s permanent installations, including Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), both in Utah, as well as the stewardship of Cameron Rowland’s Depreciation (2018).

He previously served as associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Carter has also held curatorial and research positions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He received a BA from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where he focused on Fluxus and global Conceptual art.