JASMINE HEARN

Jasmine Hearn, native to occupied lands now known as Houston, TX, is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer. They are one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), and a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of DPA (2023), a Creative Capital Award (2022), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants (2022, 2017). They have been awarded residencies through SummerStages at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.

Jasmine has creatively collaborated with artists, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Lovie Olivia, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass, and Li Harris; with companies including, STAYCEE PEARL dance project, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Dance Alloy Theater, producing solo and collective choreography for performances at the Metropolitan Museum, BAM, New York Live Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Center, the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Ford Foundation, Danspace Project, BAAD!, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Carnegie Museum of Art.