Christopher Olson
Rough Idea for a Proposed Installation at Some Point, 2008 [SOLD]
Digital Print on Matte, 11x14
Market Value $200
Starting Bid $20
Education
2003-Present
Emily Carr Institute, Photography Major, Vancouver BC
1999
University of Manitoba , Faculty of Fine Arts, Foundation Year, Winnipeg MB
Exhibition
2008
Developing Tank, Plank Gallery, Photo Grad satellite show, one C-print.
Leave Room for the Holy Spirit, Helen Pitt Gallery, Four typographic/xerox works and four essays run through online
translators, May.
Undergraduate Exhibition, Emily Carr Institute, Ahistorical/Goodbye Dragon Inn Four photographic C-print, May.
Mixed Messages group show, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, 10 digital printouts from internet, April
Pedestrian group show. Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Ahistorical, two photo/text digital prints,March
The Red Show, group exhibit, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver BC. Now 70% Aspiring Intellectual!,
photographic c-print, January
Sleight of Hand group exhibit, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver BC. Four monochromatic c-prints, January
2007 8x10 Annual Fundraiser, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, MB. Three digital photographic prints, December
Annual Member's Show, Platform gallery, Winnipeg MB, One c-print from "site-/specific"series, July
Member's Wall, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg MB, four c-prints from "site-/specific"series, June
For Font's Sake, Headbones Drawers, Toronto ON, nine Letraset on paper works, June
We Are All Photographers, Musee d’Elysee, Lausanne , Switzerland . Two jpeg projections
2005 Incidental Portraiture, Radke/Stream Film studios, Vancouver BC , eight c-prints
Incidental Portraiture, Lugz Coffee Lounge, Vancouver BC , eight c-prints
2003 Get Off the Island, Co-curator, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver BC , xerographic text installation
2002 The Home Show, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver BC , nine b&w prints.
X3 Fundraiser, Aceartinc, Winnipeg MB , three photographs
Nail It Down, The Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg MB , photographs and drawings
Member's Show, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg MB , sixteen small photographs
2001 X3 Fundraiser, Aceartinc Winnipeg MB, three photographs
The Living Room Show, 290 Wellington Crescent , Winnipeg MB , short video in collaboration with Carla Mundwiler,
Member's Wall, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg MB , three c-prints
1999 Aceartinc, Winnipeg MB , "The Idling Car" bookwork, mail-out
1998 Member's Show, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg , two photographs. (Reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press)
Published Visual Work
2007 Front Magazine, "Elegy for Jean Baudrillard (or, Saddam Gets Pwned"), May/June
Pyramid Power magazine, excerpts from “PWNED!” text series
Front Magazine, two photographs, March/April
Woo Magazine, ECIAD student paper, “18%CMYK”, January
Front Magazine “Boner-zilla”, text work, Jan/Feb
Images on CBC Radio 3 site and Tinyvices.com.
2006 Woo magazine "Awesome" photograph and "Fifteen Regional (pro)positions" text work
Only magazine, photographs, March & April issues, Vancouver
Images on Tinyvices.com, curated by Tim Barber.
2005 Woo Magazine: photographs
Complete CD package design for Vancouver band Golden Phoenix
2002 Tart magazine: Cover image, Winnipeg MB
Sleeve photographs for The Vagiants CD "Short+Hard" Winnipeg MB
1999 in/flux + Tart magazine: excerpts from "infra/-solar: a typographic visual poem" Vancouver/Winnipeg
Published Written Work
2008
Color magazine. Burning Witch record review, issue 6.1
Border Crossings magazine,, "Lida Abdul"#107
Border Crossings magazine, "Roy Arden" #105
"Needles" Artist response/catalog essay for Heidi Nagtegaal at Stratagem, January.
2007 "If You Don't Like the Weather..." Artist response/catalog essay for Sally Lee & Bernadette Phan exhibit, CSA Space,
Vancouver. October 26 - November 25, 2007
Vancouver Review magazine, "Samizdat Spaces" article (October)
Vancouver Review magazine, "Vancouver Art and Economies" review (July)
Border Crossings magazine, Kota Ezawa #103
Border Crossings magazine, Tichy[#102] review
Discorder magazine, Phill Niblock review
2006 Border Crossings magazine, Stephen Shore: The Autobiographical Landscape [#97]
2005 Border Crossings magazine: Damian Moppett: The Visible Work [#94], Jeremy Shaw: DMT [#93]
2004 Border Crossings magazine: Baja to Vancouver : The West Coast and Contemporary Art [#92], Ruth Beer: Home and Garden [#91], Kim Dawn: Approaching The Warm [#90]
Discorder magazine: various live reviews
2003 Border Crossings magazine, Hadley and Maxwell: The Decor Project [#88]
Grocery Store Essay reprinted in PaperWait, Aceartinc's annual publication
Stylus magazine: live concert and record reviews in print and on the web
2002 Border Crossings magazine, The Co-op Collective: Grocery Store [#84]
Miscellany
2006 Standard Grey Editions, 3" CD-R label with Shane Krause
Wonk: debut 3" CD on SGE, for sale in Vancouver and in Tokyo, Japan & Greece.
Live no-input mixer, green tea and contact mic performance, Blim Vancouver BC
2005 "skibblbounce" audio track on ECIAD/Woo Magazine Hybrid Frequencies CD
2002-2003 Part time employee, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art Winnipeg MB
REFERENCES
Meeka Walsh & Robert Enright, Editors, Border Crossings Magazine
Liz Garlicki, Gallery Assisitant, Aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB
Mark Mushet and Gudrun Will, Editors
