Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Born: Jamaica (1961)
Lives and works: Trinidad and Tobago
Education: BFA (1984) Parsons School of Design – Jewellery and Textile Design
Installation shot, Bathed in Sacred Fire, Kunstinstituut Melly, Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Driftwork, Southern Guild, USA
2023 O Quilombismo, HKW, Berlin, Germany
2022 Kingston Biennial, Jamaica
2022 Harder They Come 50, Jamaica
2022 The World Re-imagined, Sculpture Trail, UK
2022 91–98 jfk-lax border with Alvaro Barrington, Blum and Poe, USA
2019 Affinities with Chris Ofili, David Zwirner, London, UK
2018 Beyond Fashion, National Gallery of Jamaica
2017 Jamaica National Biennial, Jamaica
2016 Jewelbox, Spectrum, Y Art Gallery, Trinidad
2015 Biennial Del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes, Venezuela
2015 Field Notes, MOCADA Museum, New York, USA
2015 Explorations, Seven Women Artists, National Gallery, Jamaica
2014 Biennial Exhibition, National Gallery, Jamaica
2013 Jewelbox, Y Art Gallery, Trinidad
2012 Biennial Exhibition, National Gallery, Jamaica
2010 Biennial Exhibition, National Gallery, Jamaica
2009 Adornment, In2Art, Trinidad
2008 Journies, 128 Gallerie, Jamaica
2007 Bat and Ball, 101 Art Gallery, Trinidad
2006 Landscapes of 'SHE', 128 Gallerie, Jamaica
2005 Flux and Fire, Five Jewellers and Their Art, National Museum, Trinidad
2003 Resident: Works on Paper, CCA7, Trinidad
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Fugitive Pathways, NLS, Jamaica
2023 Window on Memory, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, USA
2021 Bathed in Sacred Fire, Kunstinstituut Melly, Netherlands
2017 Sonar con las manos desde el corazón del Caribe, Galería Latinoamericana, Havana, Cuba
2016 Dreaming Backwards, Y Art Gallery, Trinidad
2012 Resonance, HiQo Gallery, Jamaica
2011 Gardening in the Tropics, Y Art Gallery, Trinidad
2009 Enduring Bounty, Y Art Gallery, Trinidad
2008 Gems in Our Midst, Soft Box Studios, Trinidad
2003 Seeds of Change, CCA7, Trinidad
2001 Elemental Spirits, CCA7, Trinidad
1989 Unique Objects, Mutual Life Gallery, Jamaica
1987 Silver and Gold, Mutual Life Gallery, Jamaica
Awards
2017 Aaron Matalon Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to the National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica
2014 Silver Musgrave Medal for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Art, Institute of Jamaica
2012 Aaron Matalon Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to the National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica
1996 Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship in Arts and Crafts
1994 Commission by the Governor General of Jamaica for H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
1984 Tiffany Scholarship for Excellence, Tiffany & Company in association with Parsons School of Design