Daniel Olson
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Founder (1984)Biography
Daniel Olson is a conceptually-based artist working in an experimental, interdisciplinary manner. His practice consists of exploratory reactions to and manipulations of elements from a variety of sources: personal history, popular culture, and daily life; the histories and technologies of art, film, photography, and music; the fields of literature, philosophy, mathematics, and language(s). These explorations feed an eclectic but interconnected body of work, with projects manifested as installations, multiple and unique objects, artist's books, photographs, performances, videos, and audio works. Guided by a desire to reveal marvellous possibilities within ordinary things or situations, he employs various approaches to the presentation, re-presentation, and representation of information, sounds, and images. By creating simple, poignant works that may be funny, sad, smart, and beautiful, Olson offers perceptually and intellectually rewarding situations which offer multiple readings about our complex relationships to the world(s) we live in.Born in California in 1955, Daniel Olson completed degrees in mathematics and architecture before obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts at York University in 1995. Olson’s work—which includes sculpture, multiples, installation, photography, performance, audio, video, and artist’s books—has been exhibited in Canada and abroad since 1986. Olson lives and works in Montreal.
Centre Clark, 2024
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