Ross Stanton Jordan is a curator interested in the confluence of politics, history, and visual culture. He is the curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago’s dynamic monument to democracy. At the museum and independently, Jordan has produced dozens of exhibitions and over one hundred public programs that connect the social justice issues of the past to the present-day demands for social equity via collaborations with artists, scholars, and community-based organizations. Significant curated projects include Gómez-Peña’s Casa Museo: A Living Museum and Archive (2021), featuring MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña in residency at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum; and Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in 2024, and Loyola University Art Museum in 2025.
Jordan has held curatorial fellowships at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Independent Curators International, and the American Association of Museums. In 2022, Newcity Magazine named him one of the top 50 Chicago arts administrators working to make a more equitable and sustainable arts world. In 2024, The Chicago Tribune named Ross, along with his colleagues at Hull-House, Chicagoans of the Year in Museums. Jordan holds a studio arts degree from Connecticut College and dual master's degrees in art history and arts administration and policy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
