Jeanine Oleson Explained

Jeanine Oleson
Birth Date:April 9, 1974
Birth Place:Astoria, Oregon, United States
Nationality:American, Canadian
Education:BFA, Art Institute of ChicagoMFA, Rutgers University Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Website:http://www.jeanineoleson.com

Jeanine Oleson (born April 9, 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist working with images, materials and language that she forms into complex and humorous objects, performance, film, video, sound, and installation. Oleson's work explores themes including audience, language, land/site, music, and late Capitalist alienation[1]

Early life and education

Oleson attended Astoria High School, Clatsop Community College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1995), Rutgers University (MFA 2000), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000). Oleson has exhibited and performed at venues including: Hammer Museum, LA (2017); Commonwealth and Council, LA (2012/2017); Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta (2016); SculptureCenter, NY (2016); Pierogi, Brooklyn (2015), New Museum, NY (2014); Exit Art, NY (2012); Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2012); X-Initiative, NY (2010); Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (2009); Socrates Sculpture Park, NY (2009); Diverseworks, Houston, TX (2009); L.A.C.E., Los Angeles (2006), among others.[2]

Career and work

The subject of Oleson's art is questioning and confronting big ideas.[3] Her interdisciplinary work is marked by an interest in the conflict between contemporary life, the sensorial, and material concerns. Thinking through research and hands-on making/craft, she creates complicated, intertwined bodies of work. These large-scale projects involve performative, complex tableaux that result in responses anywhere from confusion to pleasure. Oleson's practice encompasses many different approaches to making her objects including performances, videos, installations, sound/music, art-based activism and her role as an educator.[4] Oleson often works collaboratively.

In addition to her work as an artist, she is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Rutgers University. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU, MICA, and the University of Iowa.

Oleson is also a lead collaborator since 2013 on a participatory project, Photo Requests from Solitary that provides images to people held in solitary confinement and supports efforts to end the practice in US prisons and jails. Her collaborators are Jean Casella and Laurie Jo Reynolds.

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions include the following.

Awards

Selected awards and grants include the following.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hammer Projects: Jeanine Oleson: Conduct Matters - Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum. en. 2019-06-24.
  2. Web site: Jeanine Oleson (MFA Photo Faculty) Named Rema Hort Mann Foundation, 2016 Artist Community Engagement Grantee. www.newschool.edu. 2019-04-24.
  3. Web site: Hammer Projects: Jeanine Oleson: Conduct Matters - Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum. en. 2019-07-05.
  4. Web site: Jeanine Oleson on the Pleasure of Making Things. thecreativeindependent.com. 2019-07-05.
  5. Web site: Commonwealth and Council / Can you feel it?. Commonwealth and Council. en. 2019-04-24.
  6. Web site: Hammer Projects: Jeanine Oleson: Conduct Matters - Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum. en. 2019-06-24.
  7. Web site: The Voice (exhibition catalogue, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, 2017) Mikhail Karikis. en-GB. 2019-04-24.
  8. Web site: It Can Howl. Studio. Familiar. Atlanta Contemporary. en-us. 2019-04-24.
  9. Web site: The Eccentrics. www.sculpture-center.org. en. 2019-06-24.
  10. Web site: "Destroy, she said" at The Boiler. 2015-02-01. Pierogi Gallery. en-US. 2019-04-24.
  11. Web site: A Sea Change Into Lands Rich and Strange. Abrons Arts Center. 2019-06-24.
  12. Web site: Jeanine Oleson: Hear, Here. www.newmuseum.org. en. 2019-06-24.
  13. Web site: Still Acts. Ian Daniel. en. 2019-06-24.
  14. Web site: Jeanine Oleson. GIDEST @ The New School. en-US. 2019-06-24.
  15. Web site: A.K. Burns and Jeanine Oleson Awarded Creative Capital Grants in the Visual Arts. 2015-01-23. Art, Media, & Technology. en-US. 2019-06-24.
  16. Web site: 2014 Emergency Grants: Performance Art/Theater :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts. www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. 2019-06-24.
  17. Web site: Franklin Furnace Funded Projects. franklinfurnace.org. 2019-06-24.
  18. Web site: 2008 DCA Grant Recipients. Brooklyn Arts Council. en-US. 2019-06-24.

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