About

Rain Jacobson is a visual artist, researcher, and social worker based in Philadelphia, PA. Her photographic works oscillate between abstraction and representation, delicately balancing the ethereal with the literal. This tension provokes a nuanced exploration into materiality, sensation, and temporality, where the viewer’s phenomenological experience is privileged. Intrigued by the relationship “between what one sees, and what one would like to see”, Rain embraces the complexities of consciousness, which often escapes categorization (Cahen-Maurel, 2018). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first solo show was at Final Frontier in Seoul, South Korea in February 2024. She has presented her research at UPenn’s SAFELab (2024), The New School (2023), Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), Photoville NYC (2018), and Aperture Foundation (2017), among others. She holds an MSW and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University.