Jazmine Hayes is an interdisciplinary artist born in Brooklyn, New York. She received an MFA from CUNY Hunter College and a BFA from CUNY Queens College. Her practice explores histories of the African diaspora and the ways they are preserved through cultural traditions. Through research-based explorations, Hayes works across various mediums such as installation, drawing, performance, video, sound, textile and writing. She is interested in the
resilience of tactile crafts, the role women play in gathering around them and passing them down over generations, as well as Black femme-ritual practices centered on care. Hayes has been featured in Art Forum, Interview Magazine, Artnet, and many other publications. For over 10 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, Made in
Brownsville, LES Girls Club and so on. Hayes is recent awardee of a Fulbright award for the year of 2022-2023 to travel abroad to Senegal.