JADE GRIFFIN,

Griffin (b.1999) is a self-taught contemporary artist based in South Florida whose work transforms pop-culture language, cartoon aesthetics, and American iconography into sharp, emotionally charged commentary. Drawing from modern day culture, the visual nostalgia of childhood media, personal experienes emotions and her everday life and thoughts. She abstracts familiar imagery into surreal, satirical worlds that reflect both her inner landscape and the contradictions of contemporary society.

 

Merging abstraction with narrative figuration, Griffin creates characters and environments that are humorous, chaotic, and deliberately unsettling. Her exaggerated figures act as avatars of self-reflection—mirroring personal memory, cultural tension, and the ways identity can be shaped, packaged, or performed. Through acrylics, colored pencils, pastels, and graphite, she builds layered, textured compositions that draw viewers in with playfulness before revealing deeper truths about capitalism, culture, and the emotional complexity of everyday life.

 

Griffin’s work has been exhibited in notable spaces including the Pop-Up Art Museum 50 Exhibition curated and juried by Marcus Jansen at the Alliance for the Arts (2025), “The Beginning of the End” Solo Exhibition Mini Series with The Fabulous Arts Foundation (2025), and Soul Basel Miami, in collaboration with Art Bazil The Gallery for Reframing the Canon: Black Contemporary Artists Shaping the Western Narrative (2025).

 

Through her practice, Griffin invites viewers into a world where satire, identity, and self-expression collide—challenging how we see culture, consume imagery, and understand ourselves within it.