Jasmine Gabrielle Washington (b. 1996, Baltimore, MD) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, writer, and filmmaker whose work investigates Black visibility and the politics of perception. Working across portraiture, film, printmaking, and experimental storytelling, she examines how Black people are seen, unseen, and misread within structures shaped by race, memory, and power.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Washington’s practice is informed by her African American, Cherokee, Jamaican, and European lineages. Her work sits at the intersection of identity, memory, and belonging, drawing from both personal history and collective experience. Through image and language, she creates spaces for self-definition and communal reflection, often transforming exhibitions into living archives grounded in care, clarity, and the power of collective memory.

Washington is the Founder of The First of Many, a cultural storytelling platform and living archive honoring the people behind the practice. Her writing, particularly through her Substack A Black Girl Growing Orchids, extends this work through acts of excavation—using vulnerability, critique, and ritual to explore memory and meaning.

She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Fellow.

Washington’s current research examines the paradoxical visibility of Black people—hyper-visible yet unseen—and explores how art can function as both archive and act of resistance.