Carrie Olson

Carrie Olson is interested in the role objects play in our lives—the status we assign them and what that communicates about our identity, be it personal or societal. While this is an ongoing theme in her work, over the past few years she has also focused on fear—what provokes it, how we process it, and how it can be manipulated.

Olson‘s one-person exhibitions include those at Zentrum für Keramik Gallery (Germany), Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center (KY), Texas Women’s University (TX), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (CO), and Colorado University Art Museum. Selected group exhibitions include: College of Wooster Art Museum (OH), Columbus Museum of Art (OH), Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (CO), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI), Arvada Center for the Arts (CO), and Sangre de Cristo Arts Center (CO), Gallarie Corriente Alterna (Lima). Olson was an artist-in-residence at Zentrum für Keramik-Berlin (Germany), the International Ceramic Research Center-Denmark, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI). Her work is included in the collections of the Zentrum für Keramik (Germany), International Ceramic Research Center (Denmark), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI), and Woodman Collection, University of Colorado. She received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.