Jasmine HIRST
BIO
Artist, Photographer, Film Maker
Jasmine Hirst is a filmmaker and photographic artist living and working in New York. Her films are collected by the NY Filmmakers Co-op of the New Cinema Group, and have screened at the California Museum of Contemporary Art, London’s Horse Hospital Gallery and the Sydney Underground Film Festival to great acclaim.
Jasmine’s photographic art is represented by Illuminated Metropolis Gallery in New York and the Mori Gallery in Sydney and has been exhibited internationally, including at the Casa Del Pane in Milan, Sprengel Museum in Hanover, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Jasmine has ongoing collaborations with Penny Arcade, ex-Andy Warhol Superstar, and Lydia Lunch.
Born in Brisbane in1963. Jasmine Hirst currently lives and works in New York City.
Jasmine has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1981. Her work is polyvalent in approach, including artist-run collectives, long-running collaborations, photography, design and filmmaking. The recurring theme of her practice is her submersion into the darkest recesses of humanity’s most ferocious wounds: abuse, broken hearts, suicide and murder. Her work attempts to make sense of the senselessness and brutality of this world.
During the 1980’s while working as an artist, Jasmine exhibited at Syme Dodson Gallery, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Performance Space, and Arthaus Gallery in Sydney.
In 1983 Jasmine worked in the Women’s Co-ordination Unit of the Premier’s Department funded art collective for young women, which produced a video about unemployment and with other young women. After this project ended, Technical Girls Collective was formed by some of the participants in 1984. Jasmine and Margie Medlin were the recipients of a film development grant from the Women’s Film Fund of the Australian Film Commission in 1984 as part of an initiative introduced by the Government to include more women in the film industry.
Jasmine’s film and photographic work has been presented at Museum Of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Casa Del Pane in Milano, Horse Hospital in London and Gene Frankel Theatre and Illuminated Metropolis Gallery in New York. Jasmine’s work was the subject of a lecture presented by MM Serra, the Director of The New York Filmmaker’s Coop, at Columbia University, New York, for staff about American experimental filmmakers. Her film work is collected and distributed by The New York Filmmakers Coop of The New American Cinema Group.
Jasmine has worked as art therapist with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Assault, in Wollongong, culminating in an exhibition of their work at Wollongong City Art Gallery. She has also worked as private art therapist for Wards of the State, NSW Department of Community Services, Sydney.
Jasmine volunteers her photographic and filmmaking skills for underground New York artists and musicians, including Chris Rael from Church of Betty, Maleroom, George Scherer and Jennifer Blowdryer. Jasmine has collaborated with Penny Arcade, an Andy Warhol Superstar, for twenty years on many film and photographic projects.
Currently Jasmine is collaborating with Lydia Lunch on various projects including, her visual renditions of Lydia’s spoken word and music performances, and a project Lydia Lunch has undertaken with Umar Bin Hassen, (from The Lost Poets and the Grandfather of Rap) She is also finishing a documentary about Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron won the Academy award for portraying Aileen in Monster), who she filmed on death row in Florida
Art Practice Keywords:
Photography, Film/video
Artist Role Keywords:
Artist
Collaboration/ Collaborator names Keywords:
Technical Girl’s Collective, Linda Dement, Penny Arcade, Lydia Lunch
Collections
New York Filmmakers Co-op, The New American Cinema Group, New York
Madonna, New York
Stephen Mori, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Il Torchio Gallery, Milano, Italy
Penny Arcade, New York
Lydia Lunch, New York
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Various private collections
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Education
1985-89
Diploma of Art, National Art School, Sydney
1993-94
Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions/Screenings
2015
‘Last Time We Met’ with Lydia Lunch, Sound + Vision Live: Galtta Media Showcase, The Lincoln Center, New York
‘Last Time We Met’ with Lydia Lunch, Dreams, The Eagle, New York
Endure, Church of Betty, New York
2014
Black Blood:
A Night of Jasmine Hirst’s Photographic Art and Films, New York Filmmakers Coop
It’s Been A Hell Of A Life:
A Night of Films by Jasmine Hirst, Le Petit Versailles, New York
2013
It’s Been A Hell Of A Life:
The Films and Photographs of Jasmine Hirst, Gene Frankel Theater, New York
Wild is the Wind, Gene Frankel Theater/The Punk Museum, LA/NY
Jumping Jack Flash, Gene Frankel Theater/The Punk Museum, LA/NY
2012
Pretty Vacant, The Punk Museum, LA/NY
Featured video on NME
2011
Underground Superstars, Closing Exhibition, Gene Frankel Theater, NY
Underground Superstars , Illuminated Metropolis Gallery, NY
2010
Underground Chick Flicks, Horse Hospital Gallery, London
2005
Devastating Moments: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Broken Love Affairs, Blood Splatter and an Execution, (with Linda Dement), Mori Gallery, Sydney
2004
You Can Execute Her But You Can’t Kill Her, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2003
A Different Peep Show, Bullet Space Gallery, New York
2000
Girls, Girls, Girls: A Peep Show, Wollongong City Gallery
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2012
Patti Smith Photograph, NY Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s Benefit and Art Auction, Participant Inc, NY
2011
Trailers, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Reality Bites, Sydney
You Can Execute Her But You Can’t Kill Her, Viscera Film Festival, Los Angeles
Chick Docs: I Hate You, (also curated by Jasmine Hirst/Katherine Bauer), Union Docs, Brooklyn
Visual Installation, Patricia Field Fashion Show, Santos, NY
Visual Installation, Rapture/Rupture, Artist’s and Model’s Ball, Buffalo, NY
Visual Installation, Anthology Film Archives Benefit, also appearing: Marina Abramović and JonasMekas, City Winery, NY
Visual Installation, Loving Out Loud, Santos, NY
Village Halloween Costume Ball, Theatre for the New City, Video and Performance with GiorgioHandman, New York
Dropout, Don Hills, NY
Loving Out Loud, Santos, NY
2010
Trailers
Counter Cinema: Counter Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Visual Installation, Peaches Closing Party Of Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Hills, NY
Visual Installation, The Thin Veil, Santos, New York
Visual Installation, Dropout, Don Hills, NY
You Are Not My Lover, Patrick Miller, Mexico City
Visual Installation, New York Filmmakers Co-op Benefit, Santos, also appearing: Laurie Anderson
Visual Installation For Hooray for Goodbye, Santos, NY
2009
Trailers, NY Filmmakers Co-op, Millenium, New York
Longing Lasts Longer (Video Installation for Penny Arcade), Monsourturim, Frankfurt
Impulsarcade (Video Installation for Penny Arcade), DEPA, Puebla, Mexico
2008
I Love Cigarettes, Video Installation, Don Hill’s, NY
Trailers, Gene Frankel Theatre, NY
I Love Cigarettes, Video Installation, Pianos, NY
2007
Sono passato a trovarti ma non c’eri, Il Torchio-Constantini Arte Contemporea, Milano, Italy
Curve Pericolose, Casa Del Pane, Milano, Italy
2003
A Different Peep Show, Bullet Space Gallery, New York
Beyond Anita, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewer’s Bequest
2002
Displaced Desires, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
2000
Revealing Images, Wollongong City Gallery
1999
Babe, A. Roland Hump Gallery, Sydney
1998
She’s No Serial Killer, Artspace, Sydney
1996
Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Out of the Frame, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1995
I Really Want To Kill You But I Can’t Remember Why, Artspace, Sydney
1994
So Many Men, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; COFA, Sydney
1986-91
With Inertia, SBS Television; Contemporary Arts Society, Buffalo, USA; Yale University, USA; Berlin Film Festival; Communications Course, University of Technology, Sydney; Spoleto Film and Video Festival, Melbourne; Toowoomba Film Festival; Brisbane Film Festival; Frames Festival, Adelaide; Film Fatale, Melbourne; Melbourne Film Festival
Grants and Awards
2002
New Work Development, VACB, Australia Council
1997
Script Development, NSW Film and Television Office
Film Production Development, Australia Film Commission
1996
International Exhibition Assistance, Goethe Institut, Sydney
International Promotion for Artists and Crafts People, Australia Council
1992
The Pat Corrigan Artist Grant managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Australia Council
1987
Awarded Best Film for “With Inertia”, Toowoomba Film Festival, QLD
1986
Film Production Grant, Australian Film Commission