Jasmine Reid is an artist who creates across multiple media. Working most recently on canvas, her often improvisational style collages together tissue paper, ink, gold leaf, paint, and found materials to create deeply textured works. Her art often plays with themes of memory, reclamation, emplacement, and displacement. As with this show, the twin acts of remembering and forgetting frequently appear in her work.

Reid is also a photographer who is frequently inspired by her travels through southern Africa, western Europe, and the western United States. In her photography, she is often drawn to repeating shapes (buildings, trees, chairs, fence posts) whose regularity stands in sharp contrast to the more organic forms of her painting. In spite of many efforts to do so, Reid resists labeling herself only as a painter or only as a photographer. Instead, she lets these two creative perspectives share space.

Reid is an anthropologist by training. Her PhD work (2016-2022) brought her into close contact with southern African artists, museum curators, historians, and public educators who encouraged her to think deeply about how narratives form. While she has stepped away from academia, she still pays close attention to the stories we tell – and the experiences, people, and historical elements that get silenced in the process. 

Reid currently resides in San Jose, CA, but often spends time in Johannesburg, New England, and Montana. All three landscapes deeply influence her work. When she is not painting, you can find her improving e-commerce experiences as a B2C UX Researcher, practicing her faith, and traveling with her husband.

Find out more here: https://www.jasminereidart.com/