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Art Forums Talk | Jordan Strom

Colette Urban, Gambler, 1986 (detail), Courtesy of Surrey Art Gallery, photo: SITE

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Jordan Strom is a curator and writer working on the unceded ancestral territories of the Coast Salish people. He has been curating exhibitions, writing and publishing on contemporary art for over 25 years. In addition to his work as Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Surrey Art Gallery since 2009, he has curated exhibitions at Kamloops Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Presentation House (Polygon) Gallery, Dadabase and Republic Gallery. In 2004, he was the founding editor of Fillip Magazine of Contemporary Art; he worked there as co-editor for close to a decade. As a PhD student in Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Jordan is working on a thesis project related to Canadian Art and Vancouver’s world’s fair.