Jana Albrecht was born in Gross- Gerau in 1970. From 1991 master's degree in theater studies, art history and cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 1993 she decided to train as a theater painter at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and graduated as a certified theater painter(DBK) in 1996. Since then she has worked freelance for many years for the Hessisches Staatstheater and a variety of other theaters and film/television productions. Since 2017 focus on working on her own works. Since then she exhibits regularly, in solo format for the first time in 2021 at Arte Wiesbaden. Jana Albrecht lives and works in Wiesbaden.