Jordan Stein is a curator and writer based in San Francisco. He is the author of Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts (Pre-Echo Press, 2024) and Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces (Soberscove Press, 2021). In 2017, he founded Cushion Works, an exhibition space in the Mission District that aims to link past and present through the varied presentation of critical—and often overlooked—artworks, histories, and ideas. He has independently organized exhibitions at venues such as the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Artists Space, and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, where he formerly served as Curator of Special Projects. He was a Curator at KADIST, San Francisco from 2016–2022.