Jordan Derron Brown (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture and performance. His practice explores the relationship between the body, identity, and place through the objects that form, surround, and communicate one’s presence. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Statement

As a queer Black artist, I am interested in the multilayered, multitextured nature of identity as informed by one’s environment, community, and language. My practice explores the ways bodies create, challenge, and inhabit space. I primarily work in sculpture and performance as modes of inquiry. I combine and recombine found objects into hypothetical, abstract studies that perform the body as a multiple, fluid space.

My work explores a concept of “embodied collage”, in which material and memory recombine in the physical, psychic, and conceptual space of the body. I primarily work with found, used, and donated materials to reconstruct this space in 2D, 3D and time-based forms. Improvisation is a method I use to embrace non-definition and multiple perspectives, and remain in a constant, non-linear state of becoming. Together, my artworks build a community that values fluidity, liberation, and transformation.

Ultimately, I ask: how do we experience selves that do not yet fully exist? Or, to tip it another way, how can we actively create who we are?

CV (Updated March 2026)

To inquire about available artworks, send a message to info@jordanderronbrown.com.