SARAH OLSON

VITAL FORCE: Water Essential curated by Kathleen Vance, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY

RISE ALL BOATS: A World Water Map created in collaboration with James Baldwin scholar Khadija Kamara, this public-participatory art installation is about human migration, personal and ancestral, willful and forced, through drawing, mapping, essays and oral histories.The public was invited to chart their journey with pins and string onto the World Water Map; a large cylindrical, painted world map. They were also invited to tell their story through a recorded interview. WoWHaus, Works on Water and Underwater New York, Governors Island, NY

Anthropocene Island: Colonization, Native Species and Invaders curated by Peggy Cyphers, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

What Lies Beneath curated by Kathleen Vance, Front Room Gallery Online show, New York, NY

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?? curated by Stephen Mallon, Walnut Hill Fine Art Gallery, Hudson, NY

EARTHTIME: Tectonic Shifts throughout the Phanerozoic Eon curated by Heather Christenson Smith, Corporate Headquarters of NRG Energy (a 100% sustainable energy company), Princeton, NJ

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY curated by Hallie Cohen Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

AMONG FRIENDS curated by Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant and Alexandra Rutch Brock, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York, NY

AMONG FRIENDS, curated by Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant and Alexandra Rutch Brock, Beth Dary Studio, Brooklyn, NY

REDHOT, summer online show, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY

BURIED HISTORIES, site-specific installation created with public participation, including lectures by Doug Chapman(Turnstile Tours), Civil War historian, David Olson(the artist’s father) and Colonel Matthew Olson (the artist’s brother), presented by Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Naval Cemetery Landscape, Brooklyn, NY

Insanity Clause, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

NARS open studio, Brooklyn, NY

It’s Happening! public performance installation with the New York City Parks Department, Central Park, New York, NY

Plein Air the Future,  Works on Water Triennial Exhibition, 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center, New York, NY

Garden Centennial Sculpture Exhibition, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, outdoor sculpture show with the New York Parks Department, Bronx, NY

Demon Fruit Blues, Video installation in collaboration with vocalist, Tamar-Kali Brown, Summer Stage in Central Park, and Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York, NY and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Plein Air Paintings, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, NY

El Refugio, La Tunca Foundation, multi-site installation, El Salvador

Shifting Ecologies, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Ceangal Artist Residency Exhibition, Gairloch, Scotland

Beyond Reason, Design Museum, London

Beyond Reason, Oakley SoHo, New York, NY

Wrapt, (solo), Casita Maria Gallery, Bronx, NY

Giggling and Bubbling, Da Gallery, New York, NY

Private Eyes , I Made an Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

The Birds and the Trees: A Two Night Stand, in conjunction with “Galvanic Folklore from the Accelerating Universe” choreographed by Cori Kresge, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

The Birds and the Trees II, Littlefield Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY

Painting with Pictures, Casita Maria Gallery, Bronx, NY

The Veil of Forgetfulness, Littlefield Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY

Beyond Mountains There are Mountains, Art for Change, New York, NY

Neerja Modi Residency Exhibition, Neerja Modi Gallery, Jaipur, India

Ballast, Leith Hall Performance Space, Bronxville, NY

Grandmother Waits For You, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Fresh Asphalt, curated by Eun Young Choi, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY

Pool Art Fair, Article Projects, curated by David Gibson, New York, NY

Locus, curated by Lauren Wolk, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

Micro-Macro, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY

Free Fall, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

Paper in the Wind, Realform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

Sandarbh U.S. International Artist Residency Exhibition, Colquitt Arts Center, Moultrie, GA

Bulletin, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Take Home a Nude, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY

Alumni Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Academy Works, Dahesh Museum, New York, NY

Fall Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Spring Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Drawing Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Space, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO

Small Works, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO

RISE: All boats, (upcoming) annual site-specific performance intervention, Cornwall, England

RISE: All Boats, site-specific performance installation in collaboration with Cornish photographer, Matthew Facey, Polstreath Beach, Mevagissey, England

RISE: Lower Manhattan past and future,  Live drawing installation

Plein Air The Future curated by Lise Brenner, part of Works on Water Triennial, Zuccotti Park, New York, NY 

It’s Happening!, Live drawing installation, New York Parks Department, Central Park, New York, NY

RISE, site-specific intervention in collaboration with Photographer, Matthew Facey, Polstreath Beach, Mevagissey, UK

#DON’T DISCARD ME, Heirs To Bedlam, a four person collective, site specific intervention, Bryant Park, New York, NY

Shifting Projections, Denver Children’s Hospital Creative Arts Workshop Artist Residency Performance, Denver Colorado

EARTHSEASKY, multi-site performance intervention, Ceangal Residency, Gairloch,  Scotland

Impossible Landscapes, Invisible Cities, performance with dancer/choreographer, Cori Kresge, Da Gallery, New York, NY

Impossible Landscapes, Invisible Cities, in conjunction with “Private Eyes” exhibition, I Made an Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Free Range, with choreographer Cori Kresge, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

The Veil of Forgetfulness, opera by Susan Stoderl presented by Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Littlefield Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY

World Without a Head, Sandarbh International Artist Residency, Partapur, India

Ballast, Leith Hall Performance Space, Bronxville, NY

World Without a Head, Educational Alliance, New York, NY 

more is more is more or less, with Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Old Theater, Oriental, NC

World Without a Head, Hacia Afuera Public Art Festival, New York, NY

more is more is more or less with Wendy Osserman Dance Company and musician Iva Bittová, Joyce SoHo, New York, NY

World Without a Head, in conjunction with “Locus” exhibition, curated by Lauren Wolk, MCLA (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

Works on Water and Underwater New York Visiting Artist, Governor’s Island, NY

Brooklyn Navy Yard Visiting Artist, Brooklyn, N

La Tunca Fundación Artist Residency, El Salvador

Denver Children’s Hospital Artist Residency, Denver, CO

Ceangal International Artist Residency, Gairloch, Scotland

Sandarbh International Artist Residency, Partapur, Rajasthan, India

Neerja Modi International Art Residency, Jaipur, India

Denver Children's Hospital Print Commission, Denver, CO

Marquis Studio Teaching Residency, Brooklyn, NY

Sandarbh U.S. International Artist Residency, Colquitt Arts Center, Moultrie, GA

Pitt House Artist Residency, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England

Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary, Cathedral of St. John the Divine Fellowships for The Divine Body, New York, NY

Faculty Merit Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Morrison Family Foundation Tuition Scholarship, Boulder Academy of Art, Boulder, CO

Visual and Performing Arts Grant, Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder, CO

Cleveland Institute of Art Scholarship, Lacoste, France

Master of Fine Arts, Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Bruce W. Ferguson, New York, NY

Eric Fischl, New York, NY

Eileen Guggenheim, New York, NY

Neerja Modi Collection, Jaipur, India