DVAA Member since 2024

Jazmyn Crosby

2025 DVAA RESIDENT

WEBsite: jazmyncrosby.com

INSTAGRAM: @jazmynmay

About:

Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates transmission and the environment. Born and raised in New Mexico, Jazmyn lives in Philadelphia where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She got her BFA from the University of New Mexico. Jazmyn is an educator, an event facilitator, and musician. She is a founding member of Graft Gallery/Collective and is a current member at Practice Gallery. She is currently an adjunct instructor at the Tyler School of art and Architecture, The University of Delaware, Moore College of Art and Design and teaches courses at Fleisher Art Memorial. Jazmyn has exhibited her work extensively through group and solo exhibitions in many cities including; Albuquerque, Montreal, Long Beach, Philadelphia, Prague, and New York. Exhibition venues include the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Santa Fe Center for the Contemporary Arts, 516 Arts, Icebox Project Space, Amos Eno Gallery and The Cherry Street Pier. Awards and residencies include; Artist and residency through Conversations in Contemporary Art sponsored by Concordia University, Artist in residence at Pink Noise Projects, and grants obtained through the Fulcrum Fund and Somos ABQ. Recently she was InLiquid’s 40th Parallel North Preservation Brigade Artist Ambassador in collaboration with Rabbit Recycling.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transmission practices, discarded objects, and climate resiliency. A daily walking ritual anchors my projects in physical space, fostering site-specific and non-linear thinking. I draw inspiration from biological forms and the fluid interplay between nature, technology, and the built environment.My work contemplates the intricate interconnections and the mutable boundaries of dependence and survival amid environmental catastrophes and overlapping time scales of geologic time and human understandings of time. Communication serves as both a central theme and a methodological approach in my practice; involving tools like radios, cell phones, QR codes, and roadways. I am invested in the critical engagement with materials such as salt, charcoal, and plastic wires. My work embraces a playful approach, finding delight in the unexpected and fostering opportunities for collaboration, pranks, interspecies conversations, and the use of fugitive materials.