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Jasmine Narkita Wiley is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who uses indigo, cotton, hairstyling tools, and vintage Ebony magazines to create mixed media installations, participatory art, and works on paper. Interested in abstraction, obscurity, and blur, she probes beinghood, the gaze, and dark sousveillance. Through the language of her research, materials, and media she blends the political with the spiritual to address historical wounds, to reflect possibilities of repair. 

Wiley is widely recognized for Black in Denver (2018-2020), a photography and interview series exploring place, Blackness, and multiplicity. Her exhibitions include presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Her writing has appeared in College Art Association's Art Journal Open, Surface Design Journal, and Rewind Review Respond. She has received numerous awards including the Ted Purves Social Practice Award from the California College of the Arts, a Cadogan Scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation, and a HEAR US Award from the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research.

Wiley earned her MA in Arts Politics from the Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2022. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brooklyn, New York.

email | hello@jasminenarkitawiley.com
instagram | @jasminenarkitawiley
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image credit | nicholas bruno

CURRENT PROJECT

MAPPING INTERIORS with support from California College of the Arts, Center for Art & Public Life | August 2025 - present