Dr Jordan Amirkhani
Dr Jordan Amirkhani
Writer, Curator, Educator, Critic
 
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Dr. Jordan Amirkhani's research, writing, and curatorial practice reflect her commitment to intersectional feminist critique and the contextualization of issues of gender, class, and race within the development of European and American art from the nineteenth century to the present. 

Amirkhani currently serves as Curator + Head of Program Research and Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a regular contributor to Artforum, Art in America, Daily Serving, and Burnaway.

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Installation shot of the exhibition the Atlanta Biennial 2021: Of Care and Destruction at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. On view from February 16, 2020-August 1, 2020. Photo: Kasey Medlin

Installation shot of the 2019 exhibition ‘Identity Measures’ at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Alex Marks.

Installation shot of the 2019 exhibition ‘Identity Measures’ at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Alex Marks.

Installation shot of artist Le’Andra leSeur’s ‘There Are Other Shades of Blue’ (2021), presented at the 2021 Atlanta Biennial ‘Of Care and Destruction’ at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Kasey Medlin.

Installation shot of artist Le’Andra leSeur’s ‘There Are Other Shades of Blue’ (2021), presented at the 2021 Atlanta Biennial ‘Of Care and Destruction’ at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Kasey Medlin.

Installation shot of artist Cora Lautze’s work in the 2019 exhibition ‘Identity Measures’ at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Alex Marks.

Installation shot of artist Cora Lautze’s work in the 2019 exhibition ‘Identity Measures’ at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Alex Marks.

Installation shots of the 2021 Atlanta Biennial ‘Of Care and Destruction,’ at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. Photo Credit: Kasey Medlin.

Installation shot of the Atlanta Biennial 2021: Of Care and Destruction at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani. On view from February 16, 2020-August 1, 2020. Photo: Kasey Medlin.

 
 

RECENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Installation image of Tina Girouard’s contribution “Moving In-Moving Out” for the exhibition Rooms at MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY, 1976. Image courtesy of the Estate of Tina Girouard and Artist Rights Society (ARS).

Opening of Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, California. Photo: Elon Schoenhotz.

Installation shot of Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Elon Schoenholtz

TINA GIROUARD: SIGN-IN

An exhibition organized by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Curated by Andrea Andersson and Jordan Amirkhani with Jade Flint. On view at at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art from March 16-July 7, 2024 and then at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances in New York City in Fall 2024.

HELEN CAMMOCK: I WILL KEEP MY SOUL

An exhibition originated by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, the Amistad Research Center, and the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Curated by Andrea Andersson and Jordan Amirkhani with Jade Flint. On view at Art + Practice in Los Angeles from February 11-August 8, 2023 and at the U.N.O. St. Claude Gallery in New Orleans from October 14-December 17, 2023.

TROY MONTES MICHIE: ROCK OF EYE

An exhibition originated by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought for the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, California. Curated by Andrea Andersson and Jordan Amirkhani with Taylor Renee Aldridge. On view at CAAM in LA from February 16-September 4, 2022 and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston from September 23, 2022-January 29, 2023.

YTO BARRADA: WAYS TO BAFFLE THE WIND

An exhibition originated by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought for MASS-MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Curated by Andrea Andersson and Jordan Amirkhani. On view from November 19, 2021-May 29, 2023.

 
 

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PhD in the History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, United Kingdom, 2015

MA in the History of Art, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, 2010

BA in the History of Art and Dance Performance, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 2007

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