ERIK OLSON - CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EDUCATION

  

2006 - Bachelor of Design Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
2006 - British Institute of Florence, summer semesters

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 - Redshift: Whitnessing Landscape Change, Art Gallery of Calgary(upcoming, July 4, 2008 7pm)

2007 - The Other Gallery, Banff Centre

2005 - Alberta Centennial, Art of History, Num Ti Jah Lodge

2005 - Book Forms, Emily Carr Institute

2005 - Emily Carr Grad Show

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

ASSISTANT TO GORDON HALLORAN  

 

2008 - Museum of Modern Ice, Millenium Park, Chicago

2007 - Paintings Bellow Zero, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Ontario

2007 - Paintings Bellow Zero, Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario

2006 - Sotto Zero, Turin, Italy  Winter Olympics Cultural Olympiad Project

 

DESIGN PROJECTS

 

2007 - The Shins Music Video (Sleeping Lessons), New York, NY (oil painting for the video)

2006 - Greene King Pubs, London, UK  Illustration Series

2006 - Blue Goose Design London, UK Illustrator

2005 - Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre - Graphic Identity

2005 - O2 Planning + Design, Calgary, Alberta - Graphic Identity

 

 

RESIDENCY

 

2007 - Banff Centre, self-directed residency

 

 

AWARDS   

  

2006 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant                               

2003 - Friends of Emily Carr Scholarship                                                                   

2003 - Bill Crosby Scholarship

2000, 1999, 1998 - Winner of the Alberta Dragon Boat Festival poster competition

1997 - Royal Tyrell Museum Poster Competition

1995 - Boston Library Competition 'Respect for Differences'

 

 

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