Scott Olson

Olson was born in 1976 in New York and currently lives in Kent, Ohio.

 Scott Olson’s painting practice is rooted in a deep fascination with painting’s materials, tools, and history, but also in performance, music, and improvisation. Olson is particularly interested in the art of tool-making and will often forgo traditional brushes and palettes for unconventional tools that he collects or constructs for their unique mark-making potential. He also plays with framing, using canvas, linen, fiberboard, and marble dust panel to create handmade frames; he also uses thick borders of unpainted surface around his painted field. 

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Scott Olson by Veronika Vogler

 Solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Stockholm

•  Group exhibitions include

• Realization is Better than Anticipation, MOCA Cleveland (2013)

• Painter Painter at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013)