“B. Ingrid Olson’s work stands out for her skillful manipulation of materials and conceptual rigor. Olson has developed a striking, multidimensional visual language across sculptural and photographic forms as she plays with her own and viewers’ relationships to the body in space within the carefully constructed and dynamic environments of her exhibitions.” – Juror Lydia Ross, Independent Curator and Educator.

B. Ingrid Olson is the recipient of the 2025 LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Artadia Award.

Ingrid Olson’s (b. 1987, Denver, CO) work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at institutions and venues such as Keijiban, Kanazawa; XYZ Collective, Tokyo; fluent, Santander; i8 Grandi, Reykjavik; The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; Secession, Vienna; Buffalo AKG Art Museum; and a two-person exhibition at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Olson’s work was recently included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and has been featured in group exhibitions at Jeu de Paume, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Henie–Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Lumber Room, Portland; Aspen Art Museum; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Engaging the reciprocities between photography, sculpture and architecture, Olson’s practice stages a manifold approach to plurality, gender, and power. Mirrored and fragmented depictions of the artist’s actions performed within the studio are situated amongst found materials as well as forms produced with various casting and carving techniques. Poetically testing the capacities of the artist’s body, viewers’ bodies and an exhibition’s architectural conditions, Olson’s artworks and installations call attention to both the psychological and physical structuring of the spaces around us.