Jazmina Figueroa

Jazmina Figueroa (b. 1989 in Maryland, USA) is an American-Nicaraguan writer and artist based in Berlin and Turin. Her work appears in print, sound recordings, reading performances, staccato-esquewritten works, and other artistic and essayistic productions. She has completed residencies at Gessnerallee (2023) and ZKM (2021), as well as a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2021–22). In 2024, Are You For Real/ifa commissioned her newest work, A Tumulted Space. Recent works include a release titled Arrangements In Place (2022), published by TLTRPreß, and Call Signs (2021), commissioned by Beyond Matter/ZKM. Throughout 2024–2025, Jazmina’s work has been presented at Cripta747 (Turin), Fondazione Giuliani (Rome), SNIPPET Festival (Basel), Rakete Festival (Tanzquartier Wien), and Creamcake (Berlin). Her work has been shown group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, and Blindside Gallery, Melbourne.

Jazmina’s writing on artistic and theoretical subjects has been featured in publications such as Texte Zur Kunst, Flash Art, Artforum, Nero Editions, March Journal, and others. In 2020, Figueroa was shortlisted for the Montez Press Writers Grant, which commissioned her essay, “Infinite Whole.” Her published essays and short stories include “The Sound of Breathing” in Solitude Journal 5: A Sound was Heard!; “The Double Helix and Indigeneity” for the 0.1% exhibition publication (Navel, 2019); and “Methods of Representation”in the anthology Authenticity?: Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age (Valiz, 2017).

She is a co-director of the project space collective Lateral Roma and is a contributing editor for 90antiope. Her curatorial practice includes projects such as As We Leave The Window Open for the Liste Art Fair and tbc. at Hopscotch, Berlin.