Jasmine Gregory b. 1987

Jasmine Gregory (b. 1987, Washington DC, USA) currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. In her practice Gregory works satirically with absurd and abstracted notions of love and commodity, creating space for otherness within figuration. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, the artist explores the tensions of artistic production within a narrative system on the dominant values, symbols of hierarchy, and power that permeate the social space. 

Jasmine Gregory’s artistic practice serves as a satirical exploration of aesthetic discourses, art production, commodification, intergenerational wealth, and inheritance. 

Vulnerability and humiliation play out in the fantasy of choosing what story to tell, as a contestant, as an artist. Emotions are strategized, the lens filtered, reality falls into disarray. The act of masking one’s reality echoes in the act of figuration. Both fabricate and therefore manipulate a reality for the subject. 

Her paintings and sculptures are rich in historical references, inspired by a critical and, at times, sarcastic reflection on painting as a contemporary artistic medium. 

Her painterly ability and style switch between academicism and amateurism, highly stylized and playful, dark and comedic to create unconventional relationships within the composition that challenge and critique the traditional discourse of painting.