"Port", 2022, by Emilia Olsen

Colored pencil on paper

9 x 12"

Emilia Olsen was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1989 due to her parents working in the Peace Corps. She grew up in Madison, WI and in 2011 she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC. She has exhibited her work nationally, with solo and two person shows at Kates-Ferri Projects (NY) and Doppelganger | Studio (Queens) and notable recent group exhibitions at the Spring Break Art Show (NY), Freight & Volume (NY), Gallery Also (LA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery (Brooklyn), and Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary (NJ). She has been artist-in-residence at DNA Residency (Provincetown, MA); New York Studio Residency Program (Brooklyn, NY); Starry Nights (Truth Or Consequences, NM); Hotel Belmar (Costa Rica) and the Horse and Art Research Program (Hungary). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Vogue, Art Maze, Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine, the podcast Sound & Vision and others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.