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California Institute of the Arts

Blake Jacobsen

Pronouns: Division of Library and Information Resources

Image Services Manager

Special Faculty, Photography and Media

Blake Jacobsen Headshot
Email address: bjacobsen@calarts.edu
Phone number: 661-291-3050
Office address:
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
Degrees:
  • MFA
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • BFA
    California Institute of the Arts

Blake Jacobsen (b. 1993, Florida) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. 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, PSLA, 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. He currently holds multiple positions at CalArts, including Library Image Services Manager, Institute Archives Assistant, and Special Faculty in the Photography & Media program.