Jordan Martins (b. 1979) is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, and musician. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and has been based in Chicago since 2008. He was the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago, from 2015 until 2025 and part of the organization since its grass roots founding in 2011. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including painting, photography and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Goldfinch, The Mission, Evanston Art Center, LVL3, The Franklin, The Museu de Arte da Bahia, Zeitgeist, and Experimental Sound Studio. He was 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.
photo: Scott Teresi