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PENNY OLSON
EDUCATION
MFA, UCLA, 1986
BFA, California College of Arts 1976
Also studied: American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA, School of Visual Arts, NY, Mills College,
Oakland, CA, Sonoma State University, Miasa Bunka Center, (Japan), Hongo Orimono Kobo (Japan)
RECENT AWARD
2022
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
2023
Twisted Track Gallery, AI: Authentic Intelligence, Sacramento, CA (group)
2019
JayJay, Traces, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2017
University of North Texas, Digital Fabrication Symposium Exhibition, Denton, Texas (group)
2016
JayJay, Reboot, Sacramento, CA (group)
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, From the Floor, Oakland, CA (solo)
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (art fair)
JayJay, JayJay:The Back Room II, Sacramento, CA (group)
2015
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Objects of Contemplation, Oakland, CA. (group)
JayJay, Feast, Sacramento, CA (group)
Artworks Downtown, Technological Mediations, San Rafael, CA (group)
Stanford Art Spaces at Stanford University, Photonics, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
Miami Project, Miami Beach, FL (art fair)
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (art fair)
2014
Institute of Contemporary Art, Auction Exhibition, San Jose, CA
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (art fair)
2013
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Original Source, Oakland, CA (solo)
2012
Zero 1 Biennial, Test Negative, (in collaboration with Theodora Varney Jones)
San Francisco, CA (group)
JayJay, JayJay:The Back Room, Sacramento, CA (group)
2011
JayJay, Flowers and Water, Sacramento, CA (solo)
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Cross Section, Oakland, CA (group)
Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Photo Synthesis, Oakland, CA (three person)
2009
Limn, San Francisco, CA
2003
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
2002
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA (group)
2000
Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group)
1999
Sadler Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (group)
Mad River Post, West Hollywood, CA (group)
1998
Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA (group)
Century Gallery, Streambed Series, Sylmar, CA (solo)
1996
Koa Gallery, University of Hawai’I, Honolulu, HI (solo and residency)
1995
Mendocino Art Center Gallery, Mendocino, CA (group)
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA (group)
1994
Gallery 57, Fullerton, CA (group)
1993
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas (group)
1991
Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (group)
1990
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (group)
1988
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (group)
1988-91
International Exhibition: Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, a three year
traveling exhibition organized by the United States Information Agency. Venues included
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines; Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; National Art Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; National Art Galleries, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia;Thailand Art Center, Bangkok; Kyoto National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei.
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Dostart Development Company - Redwood City, CA
Cambridge Associates - Boston, MA
Charlesbank Capital Partners - Boston, MA
Neiman Marcus
Kaiser Permanente
Somach Simmons & Dunn, Sacramento, CA
Mendocino Unified School District, Mendocino, CA
Illinois State University Museum of Art, Normal, IL
Muyogi Museum of Art, Takasaki, Japan
Asahi Business Machines, Karuizawa, Japan
Dentsu, Tokyo
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
2017 -19
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, University of California, Davis
2005
Guest Lecturer, Department of Design/Media Arts, UCLA
1987-92
Lecturer Department of Design/Media Arts, UCLA.
REVIEWS
2016 Mikko Lautamo, squarecylinder.com,
2015 Michal Gavish, //sfartnews.wordpress.com/
2013 San Francisco Chronicle page D2 04/27/2013 Kenneth Baker “Andrews and Olson Shine”
http://www.sfchronicle.com/art/article/A-Trapped-in-Your-Mind-Feeling-in-
Oakland-4467578.php
2013 http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/34793
2012 http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/08/4394630/victoria-dalkey-jay-jay-presents.htm
http://www.squarecylinder.com/2012/04/the-backroom-jayjay/
2011 http://www.squarecylinder.com/2011/06/mark-emerson-penny-olson- jayjay/?
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