Jane Red (b. 1998, Chelyabinsk, Russia) is a contemporary artist based in Seoul, South Korea. her practice explores identity, belief, desire, collective behaviour, and the systems through which contemporary people construct meaning and value. her ongoing project, Contemporary Icons, develops a visual language of recurring symbols and archetypal figures to reflect on contemporary mythology.

Jane began working with visual communication at twelve, joining a local newspaper as a junior correspondent and later working across photography, graphic design, and editorial layout. at eighteen, she moved to the Czech Republic, where she studied the history of Christian art and visual communications, developing an early interest in visual culture, symbolism, and the relationship between image and meaning.
she began painting during the COVID-19 pandemic while living in Turkey, initially working with abstraction and exploring colour, form, and perception. after returning to Russia, her interests in visual culture, sacred imagery, and contemporary image-making gradually converged in the recurring figure of a human with a heart instead of a head. this became the central iconographic sign of Contemporary Icons is an ongoing exploration of how people continue to create systems of belief, ritual, identity, and value as the objects around them change.
alongside her artistic practice, Jane has worked in art direction and visual communication and has curated exhibition projects. her background across different visual disciplines continues to inform her approach to composition and the construction of visual language.
in July 2026, Jane relocated to Seoul, where she continues to develop Contemporary Icons through painting, drawing, and experimental image-making. her works are made by hand, preserving visible traces of the process — brushwork, irregular edges, imperfect lines, and shifts in pressure. these marks are an essential part of her practice, recording the time, attention, judgement, and human presence invested in each work.