Baker Artist Portfolios

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 systems shaped by race, memory, and power.

Rooted in her African American, Cherokee, Jamaican, and European lineages, Washington’s practice centers identity, belonging, and the charged relationship between image and interpretation. Her exhibitions frequently unfold as living archives—spaces grounded in clarity, care, and collective memory—inviting viewers to confront distortion while imagining new forms of self-recognition.

She is the Founder of The First of Many, a cultural storytelling platform and living archive honoring the people behind the practice, and serves as Guest Gallery Curator at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Her writing, including her Substack A Black Girl Growing Orchids, functions as excavation—using vulnerability, critique, and ritual to unearth memory and meaning.

Washington is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Fellow. Her research explores the paradoxical visibility of Black people—hyper-visible yet unseen—and the liberatory possibilities of self-definition beyond imposed perception.