1986 Born in Los Angeles.

Works and lives in Los Angeles.

JASIMEN PHILLIPS is an Afrofuturist figurative painter exploring identity, emotion, and cultural memory through robotic portraiture. Her work documents the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.

EDUCATION

2015    M.S. Environmental Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
2009    B.A. German, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Aquarium, The Mantel Gallery, Long Beach, CA (forthcoming)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Space Cowboy, Ravens Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2026 Birthrite, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2026 L.A. Open, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2025 Intersection: Art & AI, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA

2024 Mas Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2019 Multiple Feeds, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Shifting Narratives, Bridge Gallery at City Hall, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Oh Hey, Ed Ruscha, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA

2018 I Am / Yo Soy, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA

INSTALLATIONS/SITE-SPECIFIC WORK

2026 Apps of Empowerment, Women’s Resource Center,

California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA

AWARDS & GRANTS

2027 Reparations Renaissance, Angeles Gate Cultural Center – Proposal Selected

2025 City of Los Angeles – Certificate of Recognition

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

LECTURES & TALKS

2026 Women’s Conference. Apps of Empowerment.

California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA

2025 Loyola  Marymount University, LAUSD ArtsMatter Symposium The Art of Intelligence: Cultivating Creativity in the Age of Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025- Present

Certificated Visual Arts Educator, LAUSD

PRESS

2026 Threads Art Exchange. “Q+A Interview with Jasimen Phillips”

2026 Pasadena Now. “At Altadena’s Fire-Recovery Hub, Art Fills the Space Between Loss and Tradition”

2026 The Mommy Artist Podcast Afrofuturist Painter Jasimen Phillips.

2025 SCV News. “Phillips Examines Evolving Relationship with Technology in Exhibit”

2024 Fluenzr. “African American Women Painters: Jasimen Phillips”

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA

Artist United San Pedro San Pedro, CA 

African American Women Artists Collective (AAWA)