Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied lands now known as Houston, TX, is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer. Jasmine gives gratitude to Spirit, their mother and aunties, and all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, remembering body.

Jasmine, recently named as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), is also a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023), a Creative Capital Award (2022), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants (2022, 2017). They have been awarded residencies through Sweat Variant, Queens, NY, SummerStages at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.

Jasmine has creatively collaborated with Dream the Combine, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Lovie Olivia, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass, Will Rawls, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Li Harris; with companies including, Staycee Pearl dance project, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Dance Alloy Theater, producing solo and collective choreography for performances at the Metropolitan Museum, BAM, New York Live Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Center, the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Ford Foundation, Danspace Project, BAAD!, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Carnegie Museum of Art.