Jasmine Nilani Joseph Sri Lankan, b. 1990
Born in Jaffna in 1990, Jasmine Nilani Joseph completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the University of Jaffna in 2015.
Joseph had her first solo exhibition at the Art Circle, University of Jaffna, in 2019; and as an artist-in-residence, she had an open-studio exhibition at Pepper House, Kochi, organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation in 2020.
She has exhibited her work at various dynamic venues, including Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2023); University of Exeter, UK (2023); the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2022); the Manifesto for Artists in a Strong State, Germany (2020); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (2019–2020); Colomboscope Arts Festival, Sri Lanka (2019); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018); the Human Rights Arts Festival, Colombo (2017); and Young Subcontinent, Serendipity Arts Festival (2017).
Joseph’s works have been published in Phaidon’s Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing, and she was also the winner of the DBF Asia Art Future Award by the Asia Society Game Changer Awards India in 2022. Her work is also included in several private collections.
The artist lives and works in Sri Lanka.
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Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024
Bikaner House, New Delhi 31 August - 4 September 2024Gathered for a democratic and diverse audience, our curation includes works across mediums,with a focus on painting and photography,ushering in reflection and discourse on topical narratives growing out of contemporary...Read more -
Architectures of Momentum | Rameshwar Broota
FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street, London 31 May - 15 June 2024Architectures of Momentum features a suite of recent paintings by Rameshwar Broota,who in his revelatory period of abstraction is drawn to exploring an inner journey of the human condition,centring his...Read more -
People, Places, Things
D-40 & D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 May - 15 June 2024Belonging to someone, somewhere or something is an experiential arrangement. These social relations form the crux of the human behavioral sciences, which seek to study why human beings engage in...Read more -
Jasmine Nilani Joseph | The Sixth Diary
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 20 April - 18 May 2023When Jasmine Nilani Joseph was a young girl living in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the three-decade-long civil war, her parents and siblings were forced out of their home and into...Read more -
Jasmine Nilani Joseph: Who Decides the Distance?
The Viewing Room, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 February - 2 March 2023Winner of the Asia Society Game Changer Awards India in 2022, Jasmine Nilani Joseph is an emerging artist from Sri Lanka, whose practice includes drawing, hybrid sculptures and animation videos....Read more
