Jasmine Ross

Jasmine Ross is an Oakland-based lens-based and multimedia artist whose practice explores identity politics, intergenerational memory, fictive kinship, and Black social life. Working primarily through fine-art documentary photography, Ross uses medium- and large-format analog cameras to create images shaped by slowness, attention, and care. Her work is grounded in honoring community-builders and making visible the emotional and social worlds that sustain Black life.  Ross earned a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Art from Yale University. Her interdisciplinary background informs a practice that moves between documentary observation and conceptual framing, with particular attention to how everyday spaces hold histories of intimacy, labor, beauty, and belonging. Through portraiture and community-centered image making, she considers the social meanings embedded in local environments and the people who shape them.  Her debut institutional solo exhibition, Beauty Plus, opened at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco on March 18, 2026, as the first exhibition in MoAD’s 2026–2027 Emerging Artist Program. The exhibition centers the final days of a 31-year-old Black-owned beauty supply store in New Haven, Connecticut, documenting its closure while reflecting on Black beauty culture, communal care, small business ownership, and survival. Ross lives and works in the Bay Area and currently serves as Gallery Associate at SF Camerawork.