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Image Credit: Joshua Slowe, March 2025 at the James E. Hooper House in Baltimore, MD.
Biography
Jasmine Gabrielle Washington (b. 1996, Baltimore, MD) is an artist, curator, writer, and archival researcher living and working between Baltimore, New York, and Virginia.
Drawing from her background in forensic science and abnormal psychology, Washington approaches research as a practice of sustained observation, critical and ethical inquiry, and close attention to evidence, human behavior, relationships, and context. Her practice is composed of case studies drawn from lived and inherited field sites, concerned with the circulation of care: where care comes from, how it moves, who has access to it, and who determines the terms of that access.
Washington creates environments that slow perception and resist reduction, inviting sustained attention to the complexity, humanity, and autonomy of human life.
She is the founder of The U/Y/V Project, a philanthropic infrastructure cultivating the conditions in which culture, care, and public life can flourish—guided by the belief that humankind benefits from humankind.
A devoted writer, Washington's texts operate through reflection and critical inquiry, attending to the emotional, social, historical, and philosophical conditions that shape lived experience. She is the creator and writer of A Black Girl Growing Orchids, a space to live with and reflect upon film.
Washington serves as Guest Gallery Curator of Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she has been reappointed through 2027. She is a 2026 Darryl Chappell Foundation Mentee under John Simmons, a recipient of the 2026 Fred Lazarus Award for Social Change, a France-Merrick Fellow, and an MFA candidate in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studies under Bill Gaskins.
Artist Statement
My work and my experiences are inalienably mine.
I make work, I write, I research. And I’m not in a rush.
I operate as a cogitator.
I don't make work because I have immediate ideas. I follow questions until they ask something of me. My practice is an ongoing response to conditions that can no longer remain unnamed.
Working across photography, film, installation, writing, sound, archives, and curatorial practice, I am concerned with how care circulates: where it comes from, who has access to it, and how memory, perception, and language shape our understanding of ourselves and one another.
We are conditioned to try to survive.
Not to survive, but to try to.
Not to live, but to try to survive.
Conditioned to navigate systems that were never designed with all of us in mind.
As a Black, Lesbian, and neurodivergent woman born and living in the United States, I understand visibility as unevenly distributed and autonomy as something many of us are taught is conditional.
I am not interested in making myself more legible for consumption. I am interested in altering the conditions that make translation feel necessary in the first place.
My practice offers me the opportunity to experience my own life.
To operate within an autonomy I was taught to believe I do not have.
But I do, and always will.
Critical Responses
“You’re like the love teller. Everything people see is through fear right now. And that’s done intentionally to control us. Your work unravels the fabric of fear. What a gift.”
– Julian Deville
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