B. Ingrid Olson
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B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, photo by Frank Sperling
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Biennial 2024, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2024, photo by Ron Amstutz
B. Ingrid Olson, Coming in with your back turned, 2021–2022, installation view Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Biennial 2024, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2024, photo by Ron Amstutz
B. Ingrid Olson, Proto Coda Index (detail), 2016–2022, installation view Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Biennial 2024, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2024, photo by Ron Amstutz
B. Ingrid Olson, Proto Coda Index (detail), 2016–2022, installation view Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Biennial 2024, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2024, photo by Ron Amstutz
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view Hys, XYZcollective, Tokyo, 2024
B. Ingrid Olson, Draft of Errata (Hys), 2024, Inkjet print and UV printed matboard in powder-coated aluminum frame, 68.6 × 45.7 × 3.2 cm
![B. Ingrid Olson, Judiths Glyph [Clockwise is a direction and so is south], 2025, Inkjet print and UV printed matboard in powder-coated aluminum frame, 61 × 40.6 × 3.2 cm](http://static.croynielsen.com/site/assets/files/5815/croy_nielsen_b_ingrid_judiths-glyph_clockwise_is_a_direction_2025.2100x0.1767958412.jpg)
B. Ingrid Olson, Judiths Glyph [Clockwise is a direction and so is south], 2025, Inkjet print and UV printed matboard in powder-coated aluminum frame, 61 × 40.6 × 3.2 cm
B. Ingrid Olson, Swans Juliet, 2020–2022, Polyurethane foam, acrylic primer, latex paint, epoxy, urethane adhesive, swan egg shell, 12.7 × 25.4 × 50.8 cm, installation view Elastic X, Secession, Vienna, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
B. Ingrid Olson, Psycho Index, 2013–2023, Silicone, laser print, transparency, wrapping paper, ink, masking tape, lining fabric, staple, 15 × 5.5 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
B. Ingrid Olson, Psycho Index, 2021–2023, Laser print, lithographic print, fabric, sandpaper, staple, 5 × 4 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
![B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri](http://static.croynielsen.com/site/assets/files/5815/croy_nielsen_b_ingrid_olson_camera_a_weird_rewriting_of_negative_capability_2023_01_ander_sagastiberri.2400x0.1767958428.jpeg)
B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
![B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], (detail), 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri](http://static.croynielsen.com/site/assets/files/5815/croy_nielsen_b_ingrid_olson_camera_a_weird_rewriting_of_negative_capability_2023_04_ander_sagastiberri.2400x0.1767958432.jpeg)
B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], (detail), 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
![B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], (detail), 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri](http://static.croynielsen.com/site/assets/files/5815/croy_nielsen_b_ingrid_olson_camera_a_weird_rewriting_of_negative_capability_2023_06_ander_sagastiberri.2400x0.1767968061.jpeg)
B. Ingrid Olson, Camera [A weird rewriting of negative capability?], (detail), 2019–2023, Patinated steel, bull blinder, iron, c‑print, inkjet print, laser print, plastic, and lining fabric, 20.3 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
B. Ingrid Olson, psycho something interior, picture opened to the outside, 2014–23, Inkjet print, laser print, transparency, double-sided tape, dirt, staple, 6 × 12 cm, installation view Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander, 2023, photo by Ander Sagastiberri
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, Split Hinge, 2015–2016, Inkjet print and UV-printed matboard in powder-coated aluminum frame, installation view History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, Why does my vestibule hurt?, 2020–2022, Aluminum honeycomb, epoxy, aluminum, screws, Baltic birch plywood; including Stranger’s Surface Parts, 2022, glazed porcelain, latex, cellophane, wool; Another’s Vestigial, 2022, glazed porcelain, latex, raw cotton, cellophane; and Enlargers, n.d., high-speed steel, stainless steel, rust, installation view Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, Why does my vestibule hurt?, (detail), 2020–2022, Aluminum honeycomb, epoxy, aluminum, screws, Baltic birch plywood; including Stranger’s Surface Parts, 2022, glazed porcelain, latex, cellophane, wool; Another’s Vestigial, 2022, glazed porcelain, latex, raw cotton, cellophane; and Enlargers, n.d., high-speed steel, stainless steel, rust, installation view Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson, installation view Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, 2022
CV
Education
2010
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Keijiban, Kanazawa (Upcoming)
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul (Upcoming)
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (Upcoming)
2025
Machines Complex, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
A Masculine Thought, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
A Feminine Thought, Kunstverein Braunschweig
2024
Hys, XYZcollective, Tokyo
VIELLE FILLE, Keijiban, Kanazawa
2023
Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander
Cast of Mind, i8 Grandi, Reykjavik
2022
History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Elastic X, Secession, Vienna
2019
Fingered Eyed, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
2018
Forehead and Brain, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Kiss the architect on the mouth, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
2015
double-ended arrow, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
2014
The vases my monitors their frames, cura.basement, Rome
2013
From her come a gang and a run, Document, Chicago
Group Exhibitions
2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Frankenstein, Fraenkel Gallery, San Fransisco
Five Easy Pieces, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
2023
Descending the Staircase, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Rose, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon
I wish I was alone right now (Duo with John Henderson), Soccer Club Club, Chicago
Parallel Manipulation (Duo with Clémence de la Tour du Pin), Wschód, Warsaw
2022
Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris
BLACK PAGES 1–100, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
2021
Elisions, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
This Is My Bodys, Derosia, New York
re: collections, The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts
Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rabbit Hole, F, Houston, Texas
2020
Just Connect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cabin [4.3.2020 – 4.4.2020], Sweetwater, Berlin
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
2019
Personal Private Public, Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, New York
Emerge Selections 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
2018
Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Seeing Believing Having Holding, organized by Dan Byers, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
Being: New Photography 2018, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
B. Ingrid Olson and Robert Overby (Duo), Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2017
Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Fond Illusions, Galerie Perrotin, New York
Women to the Front, Lumber Room, Portland
The problem with having a body is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London
KLEIN/OLSON (Duo with Astrid Klein), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
2016
Scarlet Street, Lucien Terras, New York
Natures Department, Kodomo, New York
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Background/Foreground, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2015
Synecdoche, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2014
Dreams That Money Can’t Buy, MAXXI Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome
2013
We seem to still be moving, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Selected Publications
2026
Alsadir, Nuar, Thomas Duncan, Mariana Fernández, Aditi Machado, Sawako Nakayasu, Kate Nesin, B. Ingrid Olson, Th. Killian Roach, Leslie Meredith Wilson, and Kate Zambreno, B. Ingrid Olson: Cast of Mind. Brooklyn, New York: Dancing Foxes Press, 2025. Monograph
2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing. New York, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalogue
2023
Blackley, Andrew, Dan Byers, Renee Gladman, Gordon Hall, B. Ingrid Olson and Leah Pires, B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother Little Sister. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Monograph
2022
Olson, B. Ingrid and Rosmarie Waldrop, 323 / 2021. Vienna, Austria: Secession, Artist Book
Bock, Katinka, Béatrice Gross and Clara Schulmann. Fata Morgana. Paris, France: Manuella Editions
2020
Østby Sæther, Susanne, and Brian Sholis. Why Photography? (Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, Susanne Østby Sæther and Christian Tunge, Eds.) Milan: Skira
Olson, B. Ingrid. B. INGRID. (Christoph Meier, Ute Müller, Nick Oberthaler, Eds.) Vienna, Austria: Black Pages, Artist Book
2019
Zambreno, Kate. ‘Appendix C: Translations of the Uncanny’, Appendix Project: Talks and Exhibits. South Pasadena, California: Semiotext(e)
Zambreno, Kate. ‘Introductions to B. Ingrid Olson’, Screen Tests. New York: Harper Perennial
2018
Hughes, Holly and Kate Zambreno. B. Ingrid Olson: Forehead and Brain. Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox ArtGallery, Exhibition catalog
2016
Latimer, Quinn, Like A Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems. Berlin: Sternberg Press
Carsten, Jesse, and B. Ingrid Olson. Salt. New York: Hassla, Artist Book
Selected Press
2024
Bennett, Alex. “(I), Ellipse. B. Ingrid Olson.” Flash Art, No. 349, Winter 2024
2023
Barton, Brit. “B. Ingrid Olson: Don’t Flinch.” Mousse, Spring 2023
2022
Harris, Jenny, “Jenny Harris on B. Ingrid Olson.” Artforum, December
Olson, B. Ingrid and Jared Quinton, “Any Room Can Be a Camera: B. Ingrid Olson Interviewed by Jared Quinton”, BOMB Magazine, October
Neuhold, Margit, “Meanings in Abeyance”, Camera Austria International, no. 159
2020
Strand, Nina, “Et ønske om materialitet.” NyTid.no, February 15
2019
Bonilla-Edgington, Jennifer Rose, “Personal Private Public” The Brooklyn Rail, October
2018
Fulton, Lauren and B. Ingrid Olson. “Flip the Medium: A conversation between artist B. Ingrid Olson and curator Lauren Fulton.” Interview. Objektiv, no. 18, November
Olson, B. Ingrid and Kate Zambreno, “Introductions. A collaboration between B. Ingrid Olson and Kate Zambreno”, BOMB Magazine, April
Bell, Natalie. “First Look: B. Ingrid Olson.” Art in America, April
2017
Cramerotti, Alfredo. “Astrid Klein & B. Ingrid Olson.” Interview. The Seen, no. 4, May
2016
McDonough, Tom. “B. Ingrid Olson.” Osmos, Number 8, Spring
2015
Blalock, Lucas. “Push-Back: A Conversation Between B. Ingrid Olson and Lucas Blalock.” Interview. Objektiv, no. 12, November
Aletti, Vince. “Goings on About Town: B. Ingrid Olson.” Review. The New Yorker, February
Gopnik, Blake. “B. Ingrid Olson: Bringing Cézanne up to Date.”, Artnet (online), January
Lee, Nathaniel. “B. Ingrid Olson.”, Modern Painters, April
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