Jasmin Sian
wildlife I love: Skippy and Pop in a field of thyme, oregano, clover, chickweed and violets, 2023
Graphite, gouache, sennelier ink and cut-outs on pastry bag paper
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
26.7 x 26.7 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
4 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches
11.9 x 10.8 cm
Jasmin Sian
dovecote: Matsu and Hinoki at home foraging with broccolini, thyme, peonies and small gardenia bush, 2025
Gouache, lacquer ink, graphite and cut-outs on doughnut bag paper
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
26.7 x 26.7 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
5 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches
14.3 x 13.3 cm
Jasmin Sian
dovecote: a tree-pee in Bugoy's favorite spot with Mrs. Manok, mom's garden, Philippines, 2025
Gouache, lacquer ink, graphite and cut-outs on deli-bag paper
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
26.7 x 26.7 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
3 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches
9 x 14.4 cm
Jasmin Sian
Hudson River pine in bubble gum Dum-Dums / Hudson River pine in bubble gum Dum-Dums, 2020/2023
Graphite and cut-outs on lollipop wrappers
Diptych
Framed Dimensions, each:
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches
26.7 x 26.7 x 3.5 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
Left Panel
3 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches
7.9 x 6 cm
Right Panel
3 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches
7.9 x 6.3 cm
Jasmin Sian
wildlife I love, Covid edition: Umi and Pop with Adirondack chipmunks, 2020
Graphite, gouache and cut-outs on white deli bag paper
Framed Dimensions:
11 1/2 x 12 x 1 1/2 inches
29.2 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
8 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches
22.2 x 23.2 cm
Jasmin Sian
Hudson River alpine grass with ghost deer, 2019-23
Graphite, gouache, sennelier ink and cut-outs on deli bag paper
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
26.7 x 26.7 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
12.1 x 8.9 cm
Jasmin Sian
The Wonderworld of Fennel and Jasmin, 2015
Ink, graphite and cut-outs on deli bag paper; mixed media on leftover gold leaf book
Coat of arms: 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (11.4 x 13.3 cm)
Book: 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (9.5 x 9.5 cm)
Jasmin Sian
if i had a little zoo, 2013
Ink, graphite and cut-outs on deli bag paper
Diptych
5 1/4 x 3 5/8 inches each
13.3 x 9.2 cm each
Jasmin Sian
in-life, 2014
Graphite and cut-outs on encyclopedia book page (Texas)
Framed Dimensions:
11 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
27.9 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
4 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches
11.1 x 10.5 cm
“Jasmin focuses intensely on a limited number of tools but employs fantastic invention and tremendous finesse each time she sets out to make something.”
- Mark Pascale, curator at The Art Institute of Chicago, in conversation with Hilarie M. Sheets, Elle Decor
Jasmin Sian (b. 1969) lives and works in New York, NY. Sian received a Certificat des etudes de la langue Francaise in 1989 from the Universite Catholique d’Anger in Anger, France; she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991 from the University of Houston in Houston, TX; and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from Parsons School of Design in New York, NY.
Sian is the recipient of the 1998 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant; the 1997 Larrogue Artist Colony; and the 1989 Alliance Francaise Scholarship.
Sian has had solo exhibitions at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, and Cameron and Weiland, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions include the 2026 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, NY, 2013; East Ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2011; Alimatuan: The Emerging Artist as American Filipino, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 2011; Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, 2011; artintime, Sumi, New York, NY, 2011; The Joan Mitchell Foundation 1997-1999 MFA Grant Recipient Group Exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY, 2005; Jasmin, E31 Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2005; Jasmin Sian and Matthew Sontheimer, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2004; Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle, Exhibits USA, Kansas City, MO, 2003; Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2000; (In)tangible, Margaret Thatcher Gallery, New York, NY, 2000; inter-views 1999, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, 1999; needle art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1999; and Warmer Still, Videoland, New York, NY, 1999.
Selected public collections include The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA.
Jasmin Sian will be included in "Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro" at Museum of Arts and Design New York, 22 March - 9 September 2018.
In June of 2015, Miriam Schapiro, the pioneering feminist artist and founding member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, passed away at the age of ninety-one. Surprisingly, given her status as the elder stateswoman of the feminist art movement, the tremendous impact of her oeuvre on contemporary art has yet to be fully acknowledged or critically assessed. This exhibition seeks to redress this gap in the history of American art through an exploration of Schapiro’s signature femmages, the term she coined to describe her distinctive hybrid of painting and collage inspired by women’s domestic arts and crafts and the feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft.
"Small and delicate, Jasmin Sian’s lace-like paper artworks resemble doilies darkened over time, yet the wall text reveals that they are made of found materials. Specifically, she uses trash like fast-food bags and the wrapper from a biscuit, painting over them with minute, dense details. These plants and animals, painted in small scale, demand a closer look. (In the Biennial, the curators paired Sian’s work with monumental, mixed-media paintings by Teresa Baker that capture the way each plays with scale.)
Surrounding these intricate scenes are the lace-like borders that Sian has painstakingly cut with an X-Acto knife. Turning trash into meticulously crafted objects, Sian’s works serve as intimate odes to the natural world. The artist has been creating similar works for decades, earning a Joan Mitchell grant in 1998. In recent years, her work has gained commercial traction with successful art fair presentations, including a solo booth with Anthony Meier Gallery at the Art Dealers Association of America’s 2023 Art Show. "
"Family can stretch across time and space,... and it stretches across species in the formally unalike but comparably exquisite work of two artists, Jasmin Sian and Emilie Louise Gossiaux, both of whom have created tributes to cherished nonhuman companions, a parrot named Fennel in the case of Sian’s elaborately detailed drawn landscapes, cut from discarded deli-paper, and a guide dog name London in the ceramic structures and ballpoint pen-and-ink drawings of Gossiaux."
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