Riana “Rain” Jacobson is a visual artist, researcher, educator, and social worker in Philadelphia, PA.
Education
MFA, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, 2024
MSW, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, 2024
BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, 2018
Exhibition History
2024
- Red Sky at Night, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
- Theories of Relativity, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
- What’s A Public For?, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Rain Jacobson, Final Frontier, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
2023
- over, under, through, Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, in collaboration with Saya Woolfalk, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2020
- a new nothing conversation with Joey Solomon
- Volume 2: Connection, Soft Lightning, juried by Rashod Taylor
2019
- New Works from DPI Alumni, NYU Tisch
- cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights, NYU Tisch, For Freedoms, and Photoville
Speaking Engagements
2024
- SAFELab, UPenn Annenberg School
2023
- The New School, “Designing Work and Workers”
- Institute of Contemporary Art, “Objects of Ritual”
2020
- Ingrid Ollquist Death Doula, “Grief & Loss Through Family Photographs”
2018
- Photoville NYC, “Photoville Talks: Teen Photographers Speak Out”
- Aperture Foundation, “On Feminism”
- Pratt Institute, “Gordon Parks Dialogues”
Teaching
- Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, Undergraduate Fine Arts, Digital Photography
- Graduate Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Workshop Designer and Facilitator, Penn Memory Center & Penn Medicine
- Lead Teaching Artist, Las Fotos Project, Los Angeles, CA
- Lead Instructor, School of Creative & Performing Arts at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
- Lead Instructor, Josephine Herrick Project, New York, NY
- Teaching Artist, Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York, NY
- Teaching Assistant & Mentor, New York University, New York, NY
Full CV available upon request.