Rachel Jump (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1991) received her BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, which includes Candela Gallery in Richmond, VA, Unseen Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Filter Photo in Chicago, IL, amongst others. Her prints were a part of the Midwest Photography Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago from 2017-2021 and are in the permanent collection at the RISD Museum, in addition to private collections.

Rachel’s work has also been featured in various print and online publications, including Docu Magazine, DIE ZEIT, i-D, Der Greif, The Photo Review, and Museé Magazine. In 2018, FotoRoom named her as one of “Ten Female Photographers You Should Know”. In 2020, Rachel was recognized as one of the “Top 30 Under 30 Women Photographers" by ARTPIL. She was selected as a Visionary Project Award Finalist for the Film Photo Award in 2025.

In 2024, photographs from her latest series, Everyone is Icarus, were in a two-person exhibition, COUNTER/PART, at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning. Everyone is Icarus will be the subject of a solo exhibition at SRO Photo Gallery in Lubbock, Texas in late 2025. Rachel is currently an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts.

Rachel currently resides in New Mexico with Daniel W. Coburn and their five dogs.

You may contact her at:

rachelxjump[at]gmail.com