Rachel Jump (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1991) is an artist whose work explores the fluid nature of the autobiography. Drawing from memory, performance, and metaphor, she creates black-and-white images that examine notions of family and identity.

She received her BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Her work has been exhibited internationally and was featured in the Midwest Photography Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography from 2017–2021. Her prints are held in the permanent collection of the RISD Museum as well as in private collections.

Her photographs have appeared in print and online publications including Booooooom, SHOTS Magazine, DIE ZEIT, Der Greif, Museé Magazine, and The Photo Review. In 2020, she was named one of ARTPIL's "Top 30 Under 30 Women Photographers."

In 2025, Rachel was recognized as a winner in the Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards and was a finalist for the Lucie Foundation Scholarship, the Film Photo Award, and the Booooooom Photo Awards. She received a YoungArts Microgrant and was selected as a winner of the Humber Portrait Prize in 2026.

Work from her series Everyone is Icarus was featured in COUNTER/PART, a two-person exhibition at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning in 2024. The series was later presented in solo exhibitions at SRO Photo Gallery in 2025 and Nob Hill Little Bear in 2026. She is currently pursuing an MFA 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