C.T. Jasper is a Polish-born artist and educator whose work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. His projects span film, experimental documentary, video art, installation, sculpture, sound, and printed matter.
Splitting his time between Philadelphia, New York, and Gdynia, Poland, he examines the cultural and psychological architectures of contemporary life through an anthropological lens shaped by his Eastern European background and its peripheral vantage points. Rooted in experimental documentary and film, his practice treats the moving image as a site of witness and reciprocity, bringing peripheral lives and contested histories into focus with clarity and deliberate vulnerability.
Jasper’s work has been presented in the United States and around the world - at the Hirshhorn Museum, Sculpture Center, Performa, The High Line, The Bronx Museum, The Drawing Center, documenta Institut, Centre Pompidou, Zachęta—National Gallery of Art, and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, among other institutions.
His exhibitions have been reviewed by publications such as Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, The New York Times, Artnews, Szum, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Art in America, Flash Art, Mousse, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Frieze, among others.
Since 2013, he has collaborated extensively with interdisciplinary artist Joanna Malinowska. Together they represented Poland at the 56th Venice Biennale with Halka/Haiti 18°48'05"N 72°23'01"W and have realized major projects including Relations Disrelations, Bureau of Masks Inventory, The Emperor’s Canary, Jurassic Garden, Who Is Afraid of Natasha?, and A Morning in 1953 (Messiaen Reversed, Birds Released). Their current work includes the experimental documentary Being Cheyenne / Być Czejenką, accompanied by the forthcoming two-volume book Displaced Histories, and the film We Are All Ukrainians Now. Jasper is also completing a feature-length documentary on the artist Ilya Kabakov.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of awards from the Jerome Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Kościuszko Foundation, the Polish Film Institute, and the Ministry of Culture of Poland, among others.
As an educator, Jasper cultivates a studio environment where filmmaking, sculpture, and new media function as tools for cultural analysis and world-building, emphasizing conceptual rigor and the transformative potential of artistic practice.