Jasper Marsalis 

Jasper Marsalis (b. 1995, Los Angeles, CA, US) lives and works in London, UK. He graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union, NY, in 2017. Working across painting, sculpture, music and text, Marsalis elaborates a parallel between the space of painting and performing on stage, both of which entail the experience of being consumed by audiences. Glaring spotlights are depicted throughout his work, obscuring their intended objects and acting as obstacles to vision. The tension of impermeability is mirrored in his sculptures, whose surface fractures seem to chisel at opacity. By hindering perception, Marsalis interrogates the ocular centrism of visual art and the associated roles of spectacle and access.

His recent solo exhibitions include Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US (2025); Emalin, London, UK (2024), Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2023); Emalin, London, UK (2022); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, US (2020); Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2020); and Svetlana, New York, US (2018). Recent group exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2025); Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, London, UK (2025); the Zurich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zurich, CH (2023); Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, Monaco, MC (2023); Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, DE (2022); Gladstone Gallery, New York, US (2022); Emalin, London, UK (2021); Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, US (2020); cfcp, New York, US (2019); and The Cooper Union, New York, US (2017).

As a musician, Marsalis performs under the moniker Slauson Malone 1. Recent performances have taken place at the Barbican, London, UK (2025); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2025); Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE (2024); Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, FR (2024); Volksbuhne, Berlin, DE (2024); Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, US (2024); C2C, Turin, IT (2023); Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, NL (2023); ICA, London, UK (2022); Barbican, London, UK (2022); Abron Arts Center, New York, NY, US (2022); Cafe OTO, London, UK (2022); PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA, US (2021); and The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US (2019).

He has produced the albums EXCELSIOR, released by Warp Records (2023); for Star (Crater Speak) (2022); Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) (2020); and A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 (Crater Speak) (2019) as well as the book Crater Speak (2020).