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Blake Jacobsen

Academic Area
Photography & Expanded Media

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Biography

Blake Jacobsen (b. 1993, Florida) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Athens, GA. Combining photography, video, and performance, Jacobsen’s practice explores the intersection of his queer identity and conservative upbringing while reconciling ideological differences within family, community, and self. Jacobsen’s work has been exhibited in galleries such as Gattopardo, The Fulcrum, and ltd los angeles, and has been collected by the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA. Jacobsen has been featured in Aperture, Hyperallergic, GAYLETTER, OUT, Physique Pictorial, and PAPER Magazine while his writing has been featured in Electric Dirt, a journal amplifying queer voices from Appalachia and the South. He received his BFA from CalArts in 2017 and MFA from UCLA in 2022. In 2017, Jacobsen co-founded PSLA, an artist-run space in South Los Angeles. He previously held multiple positions at CalArts, including Library Image Services Manager, Institute Archives Assistant, and Special Faculty in the Photography & Media program, and recently became a Lecturer at the University of Georgia.

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