About

B. 2000

Austrian American Artist

Please contact at

jane@mechner.com

Instagram: @janemechner

CV

EDUCATION

2024-25 Royal College of Art MA Painting

2022 BFA Art University of Reading, Reading UK

2020 UMPRUM Painting Studio, Prague, Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITION

2024 Slightly Underdressed, Atelier Analog, Vienna, Austria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Past Meets Present, 15 Bateman St, London UK

2025 DOMINION, Safehouse 1 & 2, London UK

2024 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London UK

2024 REJECTS, Art Friend, London UK

2024 FEM ART, duo show with Jyoti Zeilinger, LOKAL Architecture, Vienna, Austria

2022 Common Room Degree Show, University of Reading, Reading UK

2022 Artists for Ukraine Fundraiser, Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Reading UK

2022 Bloomin Hell Spring Show, University of Reading, Reading UK

2021 Group Show Exhibition, Broad Street Mall, Reading, UK

2021 Klauzura, Online Exhibition, UMPRUM Prague, CR

2020 Externalise!, The Rising Sun, Reading, UK 

2017 Minty Boi Collective Show, Lyric Hyperion Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Minty Boi Collective Show, MCAU Gallery Los Angeles, CA

2016 Minty Boi Collective Show, Basic Flowers, Los Angeles, CA

PRINT PUBLICATION

2025 Private View 001, by Matilde Sofia Monti and Yuri H Wang, London, UK

2023 Die Lokal Bühne Issue 1 & 2, Collaboration with Katta S. Apetauer, Vienna, Austria

2023 From Here For Now, Graphic Novel, Montpellier, France

2022 Common Room, UOR Typography Department, University of Reading Degree Show Publication

2019 Different By Design Zine, UOR Film Studios

2019 Swampcone Magazine, Issue 6 “Closed”

2018 The G Word, Issue 1

2016 Girls Club Magazine“The Quarter Life Crisis Issue”

2015 Sad Girl Magazine, Issue 1

2015 Heartbreak Nation Zine, Issue 6

ONLINE PUBLICATION

2025 Meet Jane Mechner - BoldJourney

2022 RSA Graduates - Jane Mechner

2022 Does Burnt Sugar Taste Sweet? - Artists For Ukraine

2016 Dazed  - “Is this what your quarter life crisis looks like?”

2016 Ripening Zine #1 - Coming of Age

2016 Serendipity - Issue Two

RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS

2024 8 Week workshop at Florence Academy of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2023 5 Day workshop with Andy Nabong at Vienna Atelier of Traditional Art VATA, Vienna, Austria.

2022-2023 L’Atelier Fraise, Montpellier France. 8 month residency creating a graphic novel From Here For Now

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

2024-25 Illustration work for Sphärman, Biosphäre News

2020 Illustrations for In Search of the Music Man by Charity Whan

2020 Illustrations for Patrick Ladislav Maurice, Senatorial Policies Proposition ‘Réconcilions Nous!’

2018 Shirt Merchandise Design for Wolftyla