Eric Jon Olsen
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Painting & Drawing, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC December 1995
B.F.A. Painting and drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL June, 1990
Two-year visual arts program, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 1987
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 2000
Trouble Shooting Gun violence, Charlotte, NC 2000
Paintings and Drawings, Microcosm Gallery, Charlotte, NC 1999
Complex Simplicity: Works in Black and White, Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC 1997
Group Exhibitions, Henri Gallery, Washington, DC 1995
The New Breed #, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC 1995
Cars, Girls, and Plaster Casts, Greenville Museum of Art Greenville, NC 1994
Works on Paper, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1994
New Faces, Recent Works, The Arts Center, Kinston, NC 1994
Third Annual NEW show, the Wake Visual Arts Association, Raleigh, NC 1993
Thirty-Fifth annual Springs Show, Springs Industries, Inc., Lancaster, SC 1993
The Revel Art Competition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1992
Thirty-Fourth Annual Annual Springs Show, springs Industries, Inc., Lancaster, SC 1992
First Annual NEW Show, The Wake Visual Arts Association, Raleigh, NC 1991
Biennial National Collegiate Works on Paper Competition, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, 1991
National Graduate Drawing Exhibition, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 1990
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Main Street Art, Aberdeen, NC
Triangle Bank, Greenville, NC
Springs Industries, Lancaster, SC
Home Savings Bank, Washington, NC
Virtual Image Technology, Inc., Ft. Mill, SC
Glaxo-Wellcome Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Greenville, NC
Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
First Charter Center, Charlotte, NC
HONORS:
First Place, Joyner Library Art Competition, Awarded commission for the North Carolina Collection Reading Room, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1995
Best in Show Purchase Award, Thirty-Fourth Annual Springs Show, Sponsored by Springs Industries, Inc., Lancaster, SC 1992
First Place Purchase Award, Burroughs Welcome Public Art competition, Burroughs Welcome Company Greenville, NC 1991
Second Place, National Collegiate Figure Drawing Competition, the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 1990
Recognition Scholarship, the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1987-1989
Chancellor’s Award, The North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 1986
Sanford Scholarship, The North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 1985
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lecturer, Charlotte Art Institute, Charlotte, NC 2000
Lecturer, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 1999
Exhibits Fabricator, Discovery Place, Inc., Charlotte, NC 1998
Adjunct Professor, Barton College, Wilson, NC 1996
Curator, Selected Works from “Everyone Has The Same Disease, But None So Badly As Jane.” Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC 1994
Apprentice Sculptor, Assistant to Rogelio Tijerina, Chicago, IL 1989