Community Talks with Jordan Martins
@ Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 12PM - 1PM
Community Talks (previously Community Lunch) is an ongoing tradition at Mana Contemporary, where artists convene to catch up, meet colleagues, and exchange ideas. Mana Contemporary in collaboration with Monira Foundation invites curators, writers, directors, and gallerists for this program. This event is free and open to the public. This week, Programming Director S.Y. Lim introduces Jordan Martins to have a conversation about his practice at the Comfort Station at Mana Contemporary Chicago.
Jordan Martins is a Chicago-based visual artist, curator, educator and musician. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Loyola University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago. Martins’s visual work is based on 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 an artist in residency at Latitude in 2022, a WARP resident at The Weaving Mill in 2017, and a resident in the Chicago Artists Coalition’s HATCH program in 2013. 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.
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