b. 1987 in Denver, USA
Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
2010
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hys, XYZcollective, Tokyo
VIELLE FILLE, Keijiban, Kanazawa
2023
Pleasure Traffic, fluent, Santander
Cast of Mind, i8 Grandi, Reykjavik
2022
History Mother, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Little Sister, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Elastic X, Secession, Vienna
2019
Fingered Eyed, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
2018
Forehead and Brain, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Kiss the architect on the mouth, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
2015
double-ended arrow, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
2014
The vases my monitors their frames, cura.basement, Rome
2013
From her come a gang and a run, Document, Chicago
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
I wish I was alone right now, with John Henderson, Soccer Club Club, Chicago
Parallel Manipulation, with clémence de la tour du pin, Wschód, Warsaw
2018
B. Ingrid Olson and Robert Overby, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2017
KLEIN/OLSON, with Astrid Klein, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Frankenstein, Fraenkel Gallery, San Fransisco
Five Easy Peices, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
2023
Descending the Staircase, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Rose, lumber room, Portland, Oregon
2022
Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris
BLACK PAGES 1-100, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
2021
Birgir Andrésson, B. Ingrid Olson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, i8 Gallery at No.9 Cork Street, London
Elisions. N. Dash, K.R.M. Mooney, B. Ingrid Olson, Carrie Yamaoka, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
This Is My Bodys, Bodega, New York
re: collections, The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts
Someone said that the world's a stage, Grimm Gallery, New York
Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rabbit Hole, F, Houston, Texas
2020
Just Connect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Four Flags, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago
Four Flags, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst
Finding Our Way, Lumber Room, Portland
Cabin [4.3.2020 - 4.4.2020], Sweetwater, Berlin
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
2019
Personal Private Public, Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, New York
Emerge Selections 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
2018
Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Seeing Believing Having Holding, organized by Dan Byers, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
Being: New Photography 2018, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2017
Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Fond Illusions, Galerie Perrotin, New York
Women to the Front, Lumber Room, Portland
The problem with having a body is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London
2016
Scarlet Street, Lucien Terras, New York
Natures Department, Kodomo, New York
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Terms of Use, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
Background/Foreground, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2015
Civilization and Its Discontents, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
Synecdoche, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2014
Dreams That Money Can’t Buy, MAXXI Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Fragments of an unknowable whole, Ohio State University, Columbus
2013
We seem to still be moving, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Guggenheim Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship, 2025
Trellis Art Fund, Stepping Stone Grant, 2025
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2023
The Shifting Foundation Grant, 2023
Surf Point Foundation Residency, York, Maine, 2021
Print Catalyst Program, Yale School of Art, 2019
Artist Residency, Latitude Chicago, 2017
Fall Artist Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art, 2016
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Grant, 2012
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 2011
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Grant, 2011
Summer Residency, Spudnik Press, 2011
Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
Edward Ryerson Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
Daniels Scholar, The Daniels Fund, 2006 - 2010
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angles, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut