Jasmine Nyende

Jasmine Nyende is a textile and performance artist from Los Angeles. She is the lead vocalist for the black queer punk band FUPU!, and her art practice spans collaborative weaving, performative poetry, hand-knitted clothing, and sculpture. Her work explores how the handspun aesthetic transforms culture beyond the gaze of mass production. Her research as an artist is deepened by the opportunity to shift perceptions on what craft is and the need to preserve legacies of textile and healing traditions within our communities. DIY forms of each one teach one become a key source to her liberation praxis and a form of generating kinship for collective wellbeing. Over the past eight years, she has taught, performed, and presented at galleries and museums internationally with the mission of activating a new (yet ancient) imagination of Black femme creative freedom. Her performance and textile work has been shown at Oregon Contemporary, In Lieu Gallery, Sade Gallery, MOCA, the Hammer Museum, Company Gallery, and Pieter Performance Space.