Jeremy Olson
B.1976 Based in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Introduction
Jeremy Olson’s practice began with a considered exploration of geometric structure and fragmentation within portraiture. While retaining this interest in geometric structures through the presence of fictive architectural features, Olson’s practice has now morphed into an ultra-contemporary exploration of the grotesque. Olson presents companies of characters who appear to us as both alien and familiar. These figures dwell in remote, itinerant and uncertain circumstances, which are enhanced by strange and often deteriorating environments.
Education
2009 MFA, NYU Steinhardt, New York, USA
2000 BFA, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Leisure Longer, Mindy Solomon, EXPO Chicago, IL
2023
zoognosis, Asia Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
this time of monsters, Unit, London, UK
transient waters, apocryphal shore, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA
WT Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021
the likes of others, Unit, London, UK
2020
To scale: friends and neighbours, curated by Vanessa Albury, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
2018
Proxies, surrogates or decoys, curated by Jac Lahav, 42 Social Club, Connecticut, USA
2013
It looked like you but it wasn’t, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2023
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Unit, Shanghai, China
An Adventure of Being, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, USA
2022
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Playground of Geometry, Centre of International Contemporary Art Vancouver (CICA), Vancouver, Canada
2021
Rites of Passage, Unit, London, UK
Imagining Reality II, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2020
IRL, Unit, London, UK
Drawn Together (online), Unit, London, UK
2019
The Unspeakable: a Dark Show, curated by Peter Clough, RE:art show, New York, USA
A Late Time to be Living, curated by Rachel Garber, ColeField Projects, New York, USA
Coral Projects:Underwater Land Art Lab, curated by Vanessa Albury and Tamara Weg, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
2018
From the Cradle to the Boat, curated by Tommy Hartung, C24 Gallery, New York, USA
The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, USA
Single Channel, curated by Karl Adelaide and Max Razdow, nurtureART @ Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
2017
Let’s Make a Deal, curated by Lynn Maliszewski, CCS Bard Hessell Museum, New York, USA
Fictive Universe, curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
It Was a Pleasure to Burn, curated by The Sun That Never Sets, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
2016
The Sound Behind You II, curated by The Sun That Never Sets with Karsten Krejcarek, CR10, Linlithgo, New York, USA
Single Channel, nurtureART, curated by Marco Antonini, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
I See Myself in Your Eyes, Spring Break Art Show, curated by The Sun That Never Sets with Lynn Maliszewski, New York, USA
2015
#Bemis Painters, 1982-2015, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA
Apples Turn to Water, Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow, Spring Break Art Show, New York, USA
Pick One, curated by Regina Rex, New York, USA
2013
Lossy, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA
Show #14: Trust in Me, curated by Keri Oldham and Jacob Rhodes, Field Projects, New York, USA
2012
Bushwick Blackout, curated by Rachel Fainter, The Shirey, New York, USA
Locus of Control, curated by Marc Freeman, Bettina Hamilton & Shainley McBurney, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011
Epic, curated by Max Razdow, The Monty, Antwerp, Belgium
Condition X, curated by Keren Moscovitch, SVA West Side Gallery, New York, USA
Painting with Pictures, curated by David Gibson, ArtJail, New York, USA
2010
Divide & Conquer, curated by Bob Szantyr, The Spirol Gallery, Danielson, USA
One and Three-Quarters of an Inch, curated by Peter Clough, St Cecilia Convent, New York, USA
KEAF International Experimental Film Festival, curated by Jung Hee Choi, Seoul Art Space_SEOGYO, Seoul, South Korea
I See Myself in You, curated by Wayne Northcross, Bronx Art Space, New York, USA
2009
NYU Steinhardt MFA Thesis Exhibition, 80WSE, New York, USA
2008
New Work, NYU Rosenburg Gallery, New York, USA
Two-Way Miracle, curated by Sue de Beer, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007
Takasago I, Takasago, New York, USA
Twilight Time, curated by David Gibson, Realform Project Space, New York, USA
2006
Common Denominator, Supreme Trading, New York, USA
Residencies / Awards
2021
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting
2017
Praksis Oslo Residency, Oslo, Norway
2014
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
2013
Bemis Center Residency, Omaha, NE, USA
2012
Ox-Bow Fall Residency, Saugatuck, MI, USA
2006
SVA Summer Residency, New York, USA
Selected Press
2022
October ‘Jeremy Olson “This Time of Monsters” @ Unit London’, Juxtapoz
2021
January ‘Review: The Likes of Others by Jeremy Olson’, Quantum Review
2020
December ‘The Likes of Others: A conversation with Jeremy Olson’ Juxtapoz Magazine
‘Jeremy Olson: the likes of other’, GalleriesNow
‘The likes of others’, Artland
‘The Likes of Others: A Conversation With Jeremy Olson’, Art For Your Cause
March ‘Jeremy Olson @ Spring Break art’, Wall Street International Magazine
2019
July ‘Whole New Realm’, Essential Homme Vol. 48
February ‘Jeremy Olson Builds Seductively Peculiar Worlds’, Art of Choice
2018
January ‘Geometric and Food Metamorphosis by Jeremy Olson’, Toner Magazine
2017
February ‘Jeremy Olson’, FLAUNT
2013
July ‘Jeremy Olson’s Geometric Paintings’, Juxtapoz Magazine
2012
October ‘The Epic Form in Video’, The Maximilian
2010
October ‘Peter Clough’s One and Three Quarters of an Inch’, Whitehot Magazine
Collections
The Bunker (Rudin DeWoody Collection), West Palm Beach, USA
X Museum, Beijing, China
Recharge Foundation, New York, USA
Xiao Foundation, Hong Kong
WT Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Bangkok, Thailand