jasmine amir / mixed media artist

BIO

jasmine amir (b. 2000) is a pakistani, chicago-based mixed media visual artist. she received her BFA at the university of illinois in chicago in 2022. her work addresses themes regarding trauma, recovery, sexuality, girlhood, and femininity whilst growing up in the 2000s. she explores these themes using a variety of mediums familiar to her, mainly forming them into mixed-media paintings. her artwork has been shown in art galleries across chicagoland, her most recent being at purple window gallery (2025).

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ARTIST STATEMENT

my artworks are intentionally confessional: they consist of my personal history growing up in the y2k age; an emulation of the psychological tension of a vulnerable child growing up in a hyperfeminine, provocative, and idealized world within an unsupervised Internet context. i translate these themes through paintings, photography, and sculpture. i explore the conflict between reality and construct; trauma and recovery, healing and suffering, pain and joy, and all that is in-between. memory, reminiscence, and recreation is important in both my process and nurturing of my inner child.

as a survivor of sexual and physical violence, the trauma i have experienced resulted in the complicated relationship with my body, and even more-so with my mind. i utilize art as my pathway to heal, as its elements transform pain into something more intimate and cathartic. i allow the most conflicted of my thoughts to manifest in my work, a deep-seated confrontation with my past, a reclamation of my personal narrative. my art process involves garnering a trauma-informed understanding of my own experience, intertwining both nostalgia and survival. my work serves as an illustration of my coping mechanisms, most specifically age regression, as a means of self-soothing… a return to a time before violence shaped my relationship with my body and mind. i adore inserting my own personal comfort characters, alongside using materials such as paint, embroidery, beads, stickers, and found objects from my childhood to adorn my pieces.

through my practice, i seek not only to better understand myself, but to invite others in a space of shared reflection where personal history and collective memory intersect. transformation does not end with me, my work exists as an offering — there may not be answers, but i will find ways to live with it all… something tender, sacred, and true.