Jassie Rios is an interdisciplinary artist who uses chance operations to understand the dynamics of the non-places produced by circulation, consumption and communication. Jassie Rios uses drawing as a strategy that includes acts of experimental notations, traces, description, marks and recordings of what happens when nothing seems to be happening in the everyday.  She is most interested in the threshold between perception and description and the ways in which they question and inform each other.

Born, bred and buttered along the dusty borderlands of Laredo, Texas, she likes to keep small bits and fragments from the great terrestrial tides in her pockets (crumbs, flyers, odds and ends, woolly bits, fluff, debris, rocks, receipts) and make something out of that. Rios received her BFA in painting from Texas State University and her MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives and works in the District of Columbia.

She has exhibited her works throughout Texas, Louisiana, and Maryland.