Jordan Carter is to take up his role as curator at Dia Art Foundation. Having previously held the position of Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he curated and cocurated shows including Mounira Al Solh: I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous (2018); Ellen Gallagher: Are We Obsidian? (2018); Benjamin Patterson: When Elephants Fight, It Is the Frogs That Suffer – A Sonic Graffiti (2019); and Richard Hunt: Scholar’s Rock or Stone of Hope or Love of Bronze (2020–21), Carter will now bring his expertise in Fluxus and global Conceptual art of the 1960s and ’70s to the New York institution in December 2021.
In a statement about his appointment, Carter has said: ‘I am thrilled to join Dia Art Foundation and to collaborate on a programme that honours the institution’s history while advancing its role as a vibrant and essential hub of radical hospitality – hosting artists, publics, and risk in ways that let the outside in… I look forward to contributing to Dia’s mission of championing and expanding the histories and legacies of Minimal and Conceptual art of the 1960s and ’70s, and engaging living artists in sustained and meaningful ways that extend these stakes and dialogues into the twenty-first century.’
