Baker Artist Portfolios

Jasmine Gabrielle Washington (b. 1996, Baltimore, MD) is an artist, curator, writer, and archival researcher living and working between Baltimore, New York, and Virginia.

Drawing from her background in forensic science and abnormal psychology, Washington approaches research as a practice of sustained observation, critical and ethical inquiry, and close attention to evidence, human behavior, relationships, and context. Her practice is composed of case studies drawn from lived and inherited field sites, concerned with the circulation of care: where care comes from, how it moves, who has access to it, and who determines the terms of that access. 

Washington creates environments that slow perception and resist reduction, inviting sustained attention to the complexity, humanity, and autonomy of human life.

She is the founder of The Use Your Voice Project, a philanthropic infrastructure cultivating the conditions in which culture, care, and public life can flourish—guided by the belief that humankind benefits from humankind.

A devoted writer, Washington's texts operate through reflection and critical inquiry, attending to the emotional, social, historical, and philosophical conditions that shape lived experience.

Washington serves as Guest Gallery Curator of Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she has been reappointed through 2027. She is a 2026 Darryl Chappell Foundation Mentee under John Simmons,  a recipient of the 2026 Fred Lazarus Award for Social Change, a France-Merrick Fellow, and an MFA candidate in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studies under Bill Gaskins.