Jasmin Risk is an interdisciplinary artist whose work uses discarded textiles to examine healing and repair. They champion fragmentation, allowing for imperfections, and stake out territory in less definable, in-between spaces to embody their queer, non-binary, autistic identities. Their art practice incorporates textiles, performance, writing, video, book-making, and materials-based research. Within textiles, they use knitting, needle felting, wet felting, and paper-making, alongside destructive mark making techniques implementing cheese graters, blades, and ripping by hand. By embedding fragments in textiles, paper, books and installation, Risk reconsiders what constitutes “wholeness.”
Jasmin Risk is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Their work has been exhibited and performed at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (NY), The Zetland Basement (UK), Recession Art (Brooklyn), Dixon Place (NY), Dye House 451 (UK), The Glasshouse (NY), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), among others. Risk’s work is featured in numerous publications, including Girls Get Busy Zine and Luma Quarterly. In 2013, Risk co-founded HAG Collective, a post-post feminist curatorial performance and poetics project with Clara Lipfert. Their performance Parasite is documented in Emergency Index Volume 3 (Ugly Duckling Presse) as well as The Play In The System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance, Anna Watkins Fisher, (Duke University Press, 2020), among others. Risk earned their BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons in 2016, and their MFA in Textiles at Parsons in 2023. Risk is a recipient of the 2022 MFA Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) scholarship.
