About

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan is a Jamaican-born, Trinidad-based sculptor and installation artist whose practice spans large-scale, multimedia works exploring history, identity, and transformation. Trained in jewellery and textile design, she earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York, where she received the Tiffany Honor Award for Excellence. Her early work in wearable forms has expanded into immersive sculptural and installation-based environments, reflecting a longstanding engagement with material and narrative.

Her work is distinguished by the integration of traditional and indigenous materials with found and natural elements, including palm fronds, calabashes, feathers, and shells. These materials, drawn from her environment, serve as carriers of cultural memory and are central to her exploration of Caribbean colonial histories and their legacies. Thomas-Girvan has described this approach as a form of “inverse archaeology,” through which she reassembles fragments of the past into new visual and spatial narratives.

Over the course of her career, Thomas-Girvan has received numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Foundation Arts Award (1996), the National Gallery of Jamaica Aaron Matalon Award (2012, 2017), and the Silver Musgrave Medal (2014). Her work has been exhibited widely across the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe, and includes public commissions.