Jordan Martins (b. 1979) is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, musician, and educator. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007 . He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago, and a lecturer in the Sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including painting, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Goldfinch, The Mission, Evanston Art Center, LVL3, The Franklin, The Museu de Arte da Bahia, Zeitgeist, and Experimental Sound Studio. He was recently featured in volume 155 of New American paintings. Martins is co-director of the Perto da Lá <> Close to There, a multidisciplinary project with international artists in Salvador, Brazil and Chicago funded by the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund.
photo: Stephen Garrett