Jasmine Veronica
Born in 1999, in West Palm Beach, FL
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA 2021
Syracuse University, MFA 2024
Artist Statement
Jasmine Veronica is a Jamaican-American artist whose photographs investigate the history of representation involving the Black, female body. From the depictions in ancient artworks to the history of the slave trade and auctions, Sara Baartman (Hottentot Venus), and even within the history of gynecology, Black women have forcefully had every inch of their body displayed for the world to see. While also keeping her own personal experiences in mind, Jasmine Veronica uses the camera on herself to immerse herself in the extensive history. From being fully nude to becoming caricatures of the Mammy, and slowly revealing herself as if in a slave auction; Jasmine Veronica’s practice seeks to acknowledge this history as current and to recognize the subjects as an ongoing act of repression. Currently, she is focused on the history of Black women’s health, motherhood, the loss of one’s self in the act of being a mother, and the act of care.
Curriculum Vitae
Group Exhibitions
2022 Light Work 2022 MFA Photography Survey
2021 SAIC Spring Senior Undergraduate Exhibition
SAIC Photo Students on Review Virtual Exhibition
2020 The Artist Movement-Black Lives Matter Virtual Exhibition
2020 There Will Be No Refunds Virtual Exhibition
Lectures and Artist Talks
2021 Artist Talk for Nathan Miller’s UIC class
2020 Student Discussion with Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Nyugen E. Smith
Awards, Honors and Residencies
2021 Aperture and Google Creator Labs Photo Fund
2020 Parents Council Internship Scholarship
2019 Ellen Lanyon Scholarship
2017 SAIC Recognition Merit Scholarship
Books, Catalogues and Publications
2022 Blkhappy.com “'Guide to a Healthy Body' Interview with Jasmine Veronica"
2021 Aperture.org “Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund”
Vmagazine.com “Creator Labs Photo Fund Announced Its Twenty Finalists”
Vogue.com “Aperture and Google Have Announced the Winners of Their New Photography Fund”
Vogue.it “Family, body and identity in the winning photos of Aperture + Google Creator Labs Photo Fund”
2021 SAIC Magazine “Meet the Graduating Class” feature
2018 SAIC Photography Department Catalog Yr. 17-18