JAZMINE HAYES
interdisciplinary artist. musician. poet. arts educator.
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my practice is…
a metamorphosis. it is responsive to space and environment in honoring the body, the spiritual and the ritual. i am in constant exploration of how these 3 elements rupture through the indigeneity of historical & present cultural traditions of the African diaspora. this consists of connecting the overlapping histories of Black american southern, Afro-Caribbean and west African cultures.
i am an artist working and adjusting through various mediums: drawing, performance, sound, printmaking, textile, video, and writing— all informed from personal experience, travel and research. currently, i am exploring and researching pattern as coded communication and preservation of African histories throughout the diaspora. i am interested in the way our craft technologies inform our digital technologies.
Jazmine Hayes is an interdisciplinary visual artist, musician and poet—born, raised and based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice explores histories of the African diaspora and the ways they are preserved and reproduced through cultural traditions. Through this exploration, Hayes works across an array of mediums such as installation, painting, drawing, performance, video, sound, textile and writing. She is a 2023 U.S. Fulbright researcher, in which she traveled to Senegal, West Africa to explore weaving traditions and pattern as coded communication, protection and a preserver of Black American, Caribbean & West African histories. She received an MFA from CUNY Hunter College and a BFA from CUNY Queens College. Hayes is a past EFA Robert Blackburn print fellow and has been featured in Art Forum, Interview Magazine, Artnet, and several other publications for her practice. For over 14 years, she has worked with community-based youth organizations across New York City as an educator and muralist with non-profits such as Groundswell Mural, Artistic Noise, and Made in Brownsville. She believes in the accessibility of art resources for the development of Black and Brown youth.