Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied lands of the Akokisa, Atapke,
Deadose, and Karankawa peoples (Houston, TX), is an interdisciplinary
artist, teacher, doula, dancer, performer, and organizer. Named one of
Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), Jasmine is 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 Athena
Kokoronis of DPA (2023), a Creative Capital Award for their performance
and archive project Memory Fleet (2022) and also awarded two NY Dance
and Performance Bessie Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017*
with the cast of skeleton architecture). Jasmine has been an artist in
residence as part of the LiveFeed residency program at New York Live
Arts (2023-2026), Summer Stages Dance at The Institute of Contemporary
Art/Boston (2024), and at the African American Historical Research Center
– a joint initiative supported by the Center of Engaged Research and
Collaborative Learning at Rice University (2025). Their body of
performance work has been presented at the Mattatoio x Spazio Griot,
Ford Foundation, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Danspace Project, and the
Hobby Center for Performing Arts. They have collaborated with Bill T.
Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Okwui
Okpokwasili, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass,
Bebe Miller, Jonathan Gonzáles, and with dance companies, Urban Bush
Women and David Dorfman Dance presenting choreographic work at the
Metropolitan Museum, BAM, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Museum,
Getty Center, Venice Biennale, and Carnegie Museum of Art.