Jacobs lives and works in London. Born in 1984 in West Virginia, USA, Jacobs was raised in Adams County, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Art History at Gettysburg College and Syracuse University in Florence, Italy and received her Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2010.

In 2012 Jacobs is exhibiting at Nord Art 2012 in Büdelsdorf, Germany. During 2011 she was a resident and grant recipient at the Denkmalschmiede Höfgen Artists Residency in Germany. In 2010 she was a London International Creative Competition shortlist winner, a Manifest Creative Research Gallery International Painting Competition shortlist winner, and participated in an artist residency at Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia. She has curated Body Parts at the Hoffberger Gallery and Animal Attraction at the Whole Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.