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BIOGRAPHY
Jeanine Oleson is an interdisciplinary artist working with images, materiality and language, which she forms into complex and humorous objects, instruments, images, videos and performances through a queer and feminist lens. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rutgers University. Oleson has exhibited and performed at venues including: The Kitchen, NY; Cubitt Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, LA; Commonwealth & Council, LA; Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; Samson Projects, Boston, MA; Pumphouse Gallery, London; Art in General, NY; MoMA P.S.1, NY; Coreana Museum, Seoul; SculptureCenter, NY; New Museum, NY; Beta-Local, San Juan, PR; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY. Oleson was a 2024 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and has been in residence at Macdowell Colony, Hammer Museum, New Museum, Smack Mellon Studio Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Oleson has published two books about performance projects, “What?” and “The Greater New York Smudge Cleanse,” both in 2012, and “Conduct Matters,” published by Dancing Foxes Press in 2019. She has also been a lead collaborator since 2013 on a participatory project, Photo Requests from Solitary that provides images to people in solitary confinement in US prisons. Oleson teaches at Rutgers University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
