Jaz Graf's recent body of work juxtaposes synthetic and raw materials, the virtual gaze with organic imprints, and satellite imagery with dust. It sets in motion, a contemporary discourse around intergenerational memory and cultural preservation. Graf exhibits locally and internationally, most recently featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ and published in the peer-reviewed journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Her work has appeared in Whitehot Magazine, AM New York News, The Jersey Journal, World Literature Today and on NJ PBS Television Network.
Graf is the recipient of a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, two Newark Creative Catalyst Grants, and a Civil Society Institute Fellowship, VT among others. She has recently served on the Exhibitions Committee of the North American Hand Papermakers. She is former Vice President of Manhattan Graphics Center, a fine art print shop in New York City, and Board Member of ProArts Hudson County. Jaz holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.
Artsy : https://www.artsy.net/artist/jaz-graf
Email : info(at)jazgraf.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jazgraf/
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-graf-76714385/
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NY - Dieu Donné Spring Benefit
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY - Tacit Knowledge: Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View
Foundation Fellowship Program, Curated by Eliana Blechman
2024
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ - Radical Reimagining, Curated by Adrienne Wheeler and Henone Girma
Museum of Jersey City History - Ward Mount: A Mother of Many Daughters, Curated by Lucy Rovetto
Montclair Art Museum, NJ - Art Uncorked
Guttenberg Arts Center, NJ - Space in Time
Morgan Conservatory, OH - Liminal Spaces: Art and the Environment
Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY - Dieu Donné Spring Benefit
Morton Fine Art, D.C. - Art on Paper
Gallery B, MD - Creating in Abstraction
Seager Gray Gallery, CA - The Object in Art
2023
Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY - Root Elevation, Curated by Eliana Blechman (Solo show)
Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - The Ghost Left a Bag of Uncooked Rice For Me, Curated by Jessica Judith Beckwith (Solo show)
MOMA PS1, Queens, NY - Love Positive Women
Art on Paper & BOOKSMART, Art Fair, NY
Madison Community Arts Center, NJ - Portraits of Book Artists
Newark Public Library, NJ - Poetic Pigments
2022
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY - Wood & Paper
The Visual Arts Gallery & Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU - The Embankment on My Mind
Newark Arts, NJ - Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival
2021
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ - ReVision and Respond
Gallery Aferro, NJ - Newark Arts Festival
2020
Museo del Arsenal en la Puntilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico (canceled due to Covid-19)
Paul Robeson Galleries, Express Newark, NJ - Why We Do What We Do
2019
Gallery Aferro, NJ - Newark Arts Festival #NAF2019
Alexander Library, Rutgers University - What Books Do Better
Flat Tail Gallery, Minot, ND - Residuum (Solo show)
K.K. Merker Gallery, UI Center for the Book, Iowa City - Warm Tones for Cold Nights
Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, IA - At My Feet For Ages (Solo show)
2018
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA - The Art of the Book
Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA - Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art (in conjunction with the American Printing History Association and Friends of Dard Hunter Conference)
AAHD Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN - #thisisart
St. Joseph County Library, South Bend, IN - Place
2017
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN - The Art of Valor
Rutgers University, Engelhard Hall, Newark NJ - Articulations, Curated by Adrienne Wheeler (Solo show)
University of Notre Dame, Main Building, IN - Solarium
Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference, Atlanta, GA - Terminus - Print Exchange Portfolio
Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, South Bend, IN - Place
NJCU Visual Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ - On a Different Page, Curated by Eileen Ferara
2016
AAHD Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN - New Faces
University of Louisville, KY - MAPC Biennial Conference - Hydraulics Print Exchange Portfolio
City Hall Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City, NJ - Acts of Translation, Curated by Greg Brickey (Solo show)
Rutgers University Mabel Smith Douglass Library, New Brunswick, NJ - TFAP@10, The Feminist Art Project @ 10 Years
Newark Arts, NJ - 15th Annual Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival
Tower Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY - Awake @ 4am Portfolio
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - Awake @ 4am Portfolio
2015
Hostetter Gallery, The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ - a clearing (Solo show and lecture series)
Lackawanna Center, NJ - Jersey City Artists Studio Tour (JCAST) Flagship Gallery
The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ - In Other Words (Solo Installation)
Projects / Awards / Residencies
2024 The Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, NJ
2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award, NJ
2024 Penland School of Craft Scholarship, NC
2024 Guttenberg Arts STAR Program, NJ
2023-24 John Anson Kittredge Fund Artist Grant
2023 Art on Paper & BOOKSMART, Art Fair @Pier 36, New York City, NY
2023 Index Art Center Residency Program, Newark, NJ
2022-23 West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY
2022-21 Salzberg Residency in Book Arts, Jaffe Center at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, FL
2022, 21, 20, 19 Fulbright Research Fellowship - Semi-Finalist / Alternate Candidate
2021 Residency Award - Women's Studio Workshop, NY
2021 Royal Thai Embassy 1st Prize Speaking Presentation - CATI / SEASSI, Washington, DC
2021 + 2020 Newark Creative Catalyst Fellowship, NJ
2019-2020 Artist In Residence, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2019 (SGCI) Southern Graphics Council International Graduate Fellowship Award
2019 University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History Grant, IA
2018 SEASSI FLAS Fellowship, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - Award funded by UCLA
2018 Liu Institute Language Arts Grant, University of Notre Dame, IN - Independent Study in NYC
2018 Silkscreen Instructor of Record (1 year) - Undergraduate Students @ the University of Notre Dame, IN
2017 SLA Grant, University of Notre Dame - Awarded Grant to Study in Chiang Mai, Thailand
2017 Professional Development Grant - Awarded by GSU Notre Dame for a presentation @ SGCI-Atlanta
2017 Diversity Glass Mural, Assistant to Juan Sanchez, Duncan Student Center, University of Notre Dame, IN
2016 Civil Society Institute Fellowship - Awarded by Vermont Studio Center
2016 Watershed Sculpture Project with Colab Arts & Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ - Image Editor / Collaborator
2015 Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon, NY - Following Rivers - Curator of Photography by No Water No Life
2015 Plainsboro Preserve, NJ Audubon, Cranberry, NJ - Across Watersheds - Curator of Photography
2014 Sam Rit Artist Residency, Thailand
Presentations
2025 SUNY New Paltz Art Lecture Series
2024 "A Cosmology of Inclusions" - Dieu Donné, NY (Live Webinar with Q&A)
2024 "Thai Papermaking in Contemporary Practice" - Wat Songdhammakalyani, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
2023 "Stratum, Impressions, Geometries" - Penland School of Craft, NC
2023 Open House with Jaz Graf @Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY
2022 "Lace Like Water, Palms Upon Silk" - William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Gallery in conjunction with A Durable Thread: The Silk Road from China to America / Across Time and Space: The Silk Road and the Silk City International Symposium
2022 "Hybrid Formations In Paper, Print & Book" - (SMFA) The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, MA
2021 "Manifestations of a Luk Khrueng: Contemporary Evolutions of Thai Papermaking Heritage" - College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, NY (Virtual Presentation with Live Q&A)
2021 "The Art and (Im)Possibilities of Belonging" - NJ Center for the Arts @ NJCU
2020 "Mapping Personal Histories/Navigating Political Tides" - SCG Int’l Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (canceled due to Covid-19)
2019 "Thai Papermaking Heritage and Its Continuity" - Council on Thai Studies Conference, Madison, WI
2019 "Ancestral Embodiment in the Artist Book" - NJ Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers University, NJ
2018 "Portfolio Development" - University of Notre Dame, IN
2017 Portfolio Presentation - Southern Graphics International Print Conference, Atlanta, GA
2016 "Articulations" - Lecture and Slide Presentation - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2016 The Feminist Art Project, Artist Talk - Douglass Library, Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ
Publications / Press
2025 Shout Out SoCal Magazine - TBD
2024 #Blkgrlswurld ZINE, "10 Years of Black Joy," Vol. 10, https://www.blkgrlswurld.com/dashop/p/pre-order-blkgrlswurld-10th-anniversary-zine
2023 Whitehot Magazine, Art on Paper 2023 Art Fair Takes off in New York, September 2023 "The Best in the Art World," by Jan Garden Castro, 9/11/23 https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/takes-off-in-new-york/5964
2023 This is Our Season, Limited Edition Book Collaboration - in progress
2022 Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Peer-reviewed journal), Eco Focus, Volume 7: Issue 1-2, Dec 2022
2021 Prompt Press - "Studies in Brotherly Love," A limited edition of 60 handmade books designed + bound by Jaz Graf. A collaborative ekphrastic artist book which includes the works of four poets (disability activists Lateef McLeod and DJ Savarese, as well as Jorrell Watkins and Claretta Holsey) responding to the art of Malcolm Corley. https://promptpress.org/publications/prompt-books#!/Studies-in-Brotherly-Love/p/370683296/category=39349202
2021 Shout Out SoCal Magazine, "Meet Jaz Graf | Paper / Print / Book Artist" https://shoutoutsocal.com/meet-jaz-graf-paper-print-book-artist/
2021 JCBA Artist of the Week, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FL https://vimeo.com/496878475
2020 In the Studio with Artist Jaz Graf, Paul Robeson Galleries, NJ https://paulrobesongalleries.expressnewark.org/2020/05/26/in-the-studio-with-artist-jaz-graf/
2020 Books on Books Collection, Curated by Robert Bolick https://books-on-books.com/2020/07/10/books-on-books-collection-jaz-graf/
2018 World Literature Today, Collaboration w/ Patricia Hartland, September Issue https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/september/auscultate-monchoachi
2018 The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery Catalogue, CA https://issuu.com/seagergray/docs/___theartofthebook_2018_catalog
2017 The Juggler - Winter 2017, Volume 84, literature, art & design magazine of Notre Dame
2014 JCTV, Video Interview: http://youtu.be/3NAJ86s29OI
2013 Great Ode, Online Arts and Activist Magazine
2013 Jersey City Independent, Artist Interview featuring images of artwork, http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2013/04/a-lasting-impression-artist-jaz-graf-deconstructs-materials-to-build-new-ideas/
2010 Jersey Journal Daily Newspaper, Artist & Curator interview featuring exhibition photograph http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/09/new_downtown_jersey_city_oil_p.html
2009 Label 228 – A Street Art Project, Published by Soft Skull Press, artwork featured on 3 pages of book (ISBN# 978-1593762490)
Academic Appointments + Teaching + Workshops
2025 SUNY New Paltz - Visiting Artist Studio Visits (graduate and undergrad students)
2024 Women's Studio Workshop, NY - What the F?!?!? Fiber, Fabrics, Fusing, Facades, 1 week intensive
2023 Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY - Papermaking Workshop, weekend intensive
2023 Penland School of Craft, NC - Handmade Paper: stratum, impression, geometries, 2 week intensive
2022 SUNY Purchase College, NY - Extended Media, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - Color Theory, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - Drawing I, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - 2-Dimensional Design & Color, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2020-2021 Caldwell University, NJ - 2-Dimensional Design, (Hybrid, Remote + In-Person) Undergraduate, 3 credits
2019 Felician University, NJ - Form, Space and Time (Art Foundations), Pre-College Credit Initiative for West Side High School, Newark, NJ
2017-2018 The University of Notre Dame, IN - Silkscreen I, Instructor of Record, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2016-2017 The University of Notre Dame, IN - Book Arts & Letterpress, Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2016 Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC - Copperplate Photogravure, Teaching Assistant, Continuing Education
2016 The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ - Instructor for Sculptural Papermaking Workshop
