Jasmine Gregory b. 1987

Jasmine Gregory (b. 1987, Washington D.C.) is an artist whose work explores the systems that define value and legitimacy—and what happens when those systems break. Working in painting and installation, she uses language, abstraction, and unconventional display strategies to interrogate the social and aesthetic contracts that structure wealth, property, and taste. Gregory’s early work focused on re-painting luxury advertising imagery to critique how value, desire, and status are manufactured through images. These paintings exposed the seductive fantasies of inheritance, legacy, and stability that consumer culture sells us. Over time, she shifted from depicting these fantasies to interrogating the underlying structures that make them possible—social contracts, legal agreements, and systems of property. The DIVORCE series emerges from this progression, using the language of rupture to examine what happens when those carefully constructed systems break apart.

Her DIVORCE paintings treat rupture as both subject and method. Each work features the word DIVORCE in typography reminiscent of luxury branding, layered over gestural, textured grounds that refuse polished, market-ready finish. The result is a striking tension between the clean authority of the word and the emotional, destabilized ground beneath it. By adopting the visual language of prestige while exposing its contradictions, these works critique the fantasies of stability and permanence that underpin wealth and status.

Gregory’s installations push this further. Displayed in precarious “house of cards” formations, the paintings reject the authority of the single, collectible object, literalizing the fragility and interdependence of value systems. The work resists the seamless aesthetics expected of painting as luxury commodity, instead foregrounding material complexity and vulnerability. At its core, Gregory’s practice asks viewers—and collectors—to confront the structures that assign value in both art and life. It’s a timely inquiry at a moment when wealth inequity, property relations, and inherited privilege are being critically re-examined. Her paintings are not only visually compelling objects but sharp investigations into the mechanisms that produce meaning and worth. Gregory has exhibited internationally, including at MoMA PS1, CAPC Bordeaux, Kings Leap, Sophie Tappeiner, Karma International, Martina Simeti and Istituto Svizzero. She lives and works in Zurich.