Jasmine Narkita Wiley is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose practice explores the intersections of temporality, lineage, and repair using textiles and craft-based practices. Her exhibitions include presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.

Wiley's practice has been recognized through prestigious awards including the Murphy Award and the Cadogan Scholarships (2025), the Ted Purves Social Practice Award (2025), the Center for Art & Public Life Impact Awards (2025), and the HEAR US Awards from the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, NYU (2022).

Wiley earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Relations in 2010 and her MA in Arts Politics from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2022. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts, and is expected to graduate May 2026.

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CURRENT PROJECT

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

FORTHCOMING

RITUAL & RESISTANCE | Tnt ART Lab | San Francisco, CA | October 2025 (group)

MURPHY CADOGAN ART AWARDS EXHIBITION | SOMArts | San Francisco, CA | November 2025 (group)

EDUCATION

Candidate, MFA Fine Arts, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | San Francisco, CA (expected completion, May 2026)

Department of Art & Public Policy, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | MA Arts Politics | May 2022

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, BELMONT UNIVERSITY | Nashville, TN | BS Public Relations | December 2010

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

HEARTSTRINGS curated by Taylor Danielle Davis | MASS Gallery | Austin, TX | March 2025

ANCESTORS IN PROGRESS curated and organized by Hekima Hapa and Black Girls Sew | Textile Arts Center | Brooklyn, NY | February 2024

CROSSING BORDERS curated and organized by Angela Astle & Anne Myers with Athena Project in collaboration with Melissa Furness & Anna Kaye with PINKPROGRESSION | 40 West Gallery | Denver, CO | October 2023

BECOMING: OUR STORY curated by Alexandra Stark and Zafeiria Michalakeas | Triangle Loft 4s | New York, NY | March 2023

A WOMAN’S WOMAN’S WOMAN’S WORLD curated by Usen Esiet and Marie-Ange Zibi | Hausen Gallery | Brooklyn, NY | March 2023

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD curated by Tya Alisa Anthony | Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Boulder, CO | February 2021

REFLECTING VOICES curated by Samantha Johnston | Colorado Photographic Arts Center I Denver, CO | February 2021

ALL COLLEGE HONORS: GRAD FINE ARTS | California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | May 2025

2025 IMPACT AWARDS: EXCEPTIONAL INNOVATOR | California College of the Arts, Center for Art & Public Life | San Francisco, CA | April 2025

2025 TED PURVES SOCIAL PRACTICE AWARD | California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | April 2025

MERIT SCHOLARSHIP | California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | August 2024

WORK IN PROGRESS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | Textile Arts Center | Brooklyn, NY | June 2024

HEAR US 2022 FELLOW | New York University, The Tisch Initiative for Creative Research | New York, NY | January 2022

THE OPPOSITIONAL GAZE OF THE WAYWARD WOMAN | July 2024 | Art Journal Open

PLACE, MATERIALITY, & PERFORMING BLACK INTERIORITY | May 2024 | Surface Design Journal

TEACHING, LECTURES, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

INSTRUCTOR, INDIGO DYE WORKSHOP | California College of the Arts | Summer 2025

PRESENTER | Theories of Identity, Difference, & Power Symposium, California College of the Arts | May 2025
Paper: Beyond Essentialism: Stuart Hall’s Theory of Representation Through the Lens of Black Visual Culture

TEACHING ASSISTANT | California College of the Arts | (course: Spirituality as Resistance [S. Bhaumik], Spring 2025)

INDIGO DYEING DEMO & LECTURE | Textiles Department, California College of the Arts | (course: Intro to Textiles [J. Faught], Spring 2025)

INDIGO DYE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR | California College of the Arts | Fall 2024

KEYNOTE LECTURE | Abolition 2024 Summer Institute, New York Metro American Studies Association | June 2024

TEACHING & RESEARCH ASSISTANT | Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU | (courses: Collaborative Poetics and Methods & Criticism 2 [K. Engel], Spring 2023)

full CV available upon request