Rune Olsen

Rune Olsen is a Norwegian artist living in New York. Since his first solo show in 1997 at UKS in Norway he has exhibited widely throughout USA and Europe, including The Bronx Museum in New York, the Drawing Biennial at Kunstnernes Hus in Norway and the 2005 Istanbul Biennial. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Sculpture Magazine, Boston Globe, Austin Chronicle, New York Times, and Star Ledger. Rune Olsen has won 11 awards from The Norwegian Government, including a distinguished Three-year work grant for young emerging artists. He has been awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a studio residency with Artist Alliance in New York, a place at the renowned Art Omi International Artists Residency, and an Artist in Residency with Headlands Center for the Arts. Rune Olsen's sculptures are featured in the ground-breaking exhibition The Sex Lives of Animals on permanent display at Museum of Sex in New York. Rune Olsen is a 2009 fellow in sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He currently lives and works in Paris, completing a year-long residency at CITE International. Through installations, sculptures, and flat-works I conduct sociologically informed investigations into the corporeal and mental bou...