About the artist:

Rachel Brennecke is the artist, photographer, and performer known as Bon Jane. Bon Jane received her BFA from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2007. Raised by several generations of artists, Bon began immersing herself in fashion and art in New York and Europe from the age of fourteen. An awkward child turned model, beauty standards and the camera’s attention have always fascinated her. She works with young women and ideals of beauty paired with tragedy, aspirational stardom, female longing, rituals and cults.

Her first photo book Americana Girl was released at Printed Matter's PS1 Art Book Fair in September 2016. Americana Girl was selected for ‘Favorite Titles from the NY Art Book Fair’ by American Photo, an interview with i-D magazine, and work from AG was printed in AI/AP's 2017 hardcover juried annual book, American Photography 33. Her photographs have been published as the monograph Worn In New York by Emily Spivak, and she appears in Marina Abramovic’s book The Artist is Present and Mark Seliger’s LISTEN.

She has mentored under artists Peter Beard, Marina Abramovic, and Gilles Bensimon; performed at The Museum of Modern Art for Marina Abramovic, Deitch Projects for Vanessa Beecroft, and Performa 09 in Mother Earth Sister Moon.

Bon donates her work to causes she believes in, raising funding for social justice nonprofits, and volunteers her spare hours working with
and raising funding for animals and the environment. She loves horses.