Jammie Holmes is a self-taught artist from Thibodaux, Louisiana, whose paintings draw deeply from personal memory to illuminate broader narratives of Black life in the Southern part of America. His work captures everyday moments, such as birthdays, mourning rituals, domestic interiors, shared meals etc. It renders them with both tenderness and formal precision. Holmes’s practice is rooted in storytelling, but it is also an act of witnessing: of asking who gets seen, who gets remembered, and how.

Jammie Holmes' work has also been included in landmark group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Dallas Museum of Art, and Rubell Museum, among others. Holmes’ paintings are held in prestigious public collections worldwide, including the Hammer Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Perez Art Museum Miami, New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and international institutions such as the X Museum in Beijing, Pond Society in Shanghai, and the Nassima Landau Foundation in Tel Aviv.