Honey Jaeger

Hannah “Honey” Jaeger builds collages the way some people tell secrets… slowly, deliberately, with just enough left unsaid to pull you closer. Born in California in 1993, she earned her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2020. She now works from her Los Angeles studio, surrounded by towers of thrifted print media, vintage magazines, and art and architecture books. Every fragment she cuts free is alchemized into a new narrative.
Raised in a conservative religious household, she experienced the weight of shame and “purity” placed on her female identity. After losing her mother at eleven, art became her language… the only way to process grief when words fell short. Today, her collages explore lived experience while dismantling cultural myths and oppressive systems, always delivered with a sly wink… a visual sucker punch wrapped in lace.
At ArtCenter, her world expanded beyond the classroom… into raves, drag shows, performance art, and BDSM clubs. The rhythm, spectacle, and refusal to apologize stitched themselves into her work and never left. Around the same time, reading Silvia Federici’s Witch-Hunting, Past and Present, and the Fear of the Power of Women gave her language for what she’d always known: that the fear of powerful w...

BFA, ArtCenter College of Art and Design