Jordan Amirkhani

Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is Curator of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought—a non-profit institute for research, publishing, and exhibitions of contemporary art based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to taking on this role, Amirkhani was a Professorial Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at American University in Washington, DC from 2018-2021. Amirkhani has published scholarship on the Dada painter and polemicist Francis Picabia, the British conceptual art collective Art & Language, Crow artist Wendy Red Star, and the Nashville-based photographer Vesna Pavlović. Recent curatorial projects include Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye for the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, co-curated with Andrea Andersson and Taylor Renee Aldridge; Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind at MASS MoCA co-curated with Andrea Andersson; and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction for the Atlanta Contemporary. She is currently at work on a posthumous retrospective of the visual and performance artist Tina Girouard set to open in Spring 2024. Amirkhani’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Baltimore Arts, Boston Art Review, X-Tra, and Burnaway.org. Her emphasis on contextualizing contemporary art and artists working in the American South garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation “Short-Form” Writing Grant in 2017 and three nominations for The Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017, 2018, and 2019.