Marisa Olson
artist, b. 1977.
Marisa Olson is an artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work draws on the cultural history of technology, particularly in relationship to access, gender, and the environment. Olson’s work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennial, Athens Biennale, Performa Biennial, Tate(s) Modern and Liverpool, New Museum, Nam June Paik Museum, British Film Institute, FACT, MU, MdbK Leipzig, ICP, The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archive, Vancouver Art Gallery, Southern Exposure; in commissioned/solo projects at ZKM Karlsruhe, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Fotomuseum Winterthur, C/O Berlin, Performance Space New York (PS122), Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Samek Museum, Bard CCS, Vox Populi, Light Industry; festivals such as the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, FILE, Images, MIX, Sonar, the Brakhage Symposium; and commercial galleries including Participant, Foxy Production, Postmasters, And/Or, and Transfer. They also co-founded Nasty Nets (the original “pro-surfer” net art club), who showed at the Sundance Film Festival and New York Underground Film Festival, and were nominated for a Community prize at Ars Electronica. Olson was Artist-in-Residence at ZKM, Akademie Schloss-Solitude, Eyebeam, the Banff Centre, the Experimental Television Center, Wave Farm, New Inc, and Ox-Bow; Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts; and has been a Visiting Artist at Yale, Brown, VCU, SAIC, Oberlin, PNCA, Alfred, and elsewhere in addition to serving on the faculty at RISD, NYU, and Bard. Olson edited and Camerawork; and studied Fine Art at , History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric/Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
