Jeremy Olson (b. 1976, Ojai, CA)
Jeremy Olson creates surreal paintings, sculptures, and installations that inhabit the borderlands of science fiction, horror, and speculative world-building. His hybrid creatures and uncanny landscapes oscillate between the grotesque and the tender, the comic and the uncanny. By drawing on cinematic influences from David Lynch to David Cronenberg, and literary references from magic realism to dystopian futurism, Olson constructs worlds that are simultaneously alien and familiar. His practice often begins with 3D digital modeling to choreograph light and space, later translated into sharp, vivid paintings and immersive installations.
Olson received his MFA from New York University in 2009 and his BFA from the University of Arizona in 2000. Recent solo exhibitions include Grotto Domestic (Unit London, 2024), Zoognosis (Asia Art Center, Taipei, 2023), Transient Waters, Apocryphal Shore (Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, 2022), and This Time of Monsters (Unit London, 2022). He has exhibited in group shows at MOCA Arlington, ART021 Shanghai, Centre for International Contemporary Art Vancouver, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
His residencies include Praksis (Oslo), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), the Bemis Center (Nebraska), and Ox-Bow School of Art (Michigan). Olson’s work is held in the collections of X Museum (Beijing), MOCA Bangkok, The Bunker Artspace (Rudin/DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach), the Recharge Foundation (New York), and the WT Foundation (Kyiv).
Olson currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.