Heather Olsen

Heather Olsen is a figurative painter based in Salt Lake City, UT. Olsen’s paintings explore the emotional expression of the human experience through nude figure studies painted from life. Due to her classical training, her paintings are rooted in realism with a contemporary style of expressive brushwork. Her work is in both public and private collections, and has been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S. and Canada including the Springville Museum of Art, Chelsie Nicole Contemporary Gallery, Summer and Grace Gallery, among others. Her work has been featured in collaborations with the Sundance Film Festival, Intermountain Health, and Utah State Legislature. In 2020, Olsen was commissioned to paint the large-scale multi-figure painting to spearhead the campaign “Together We Can Do This” honoring the healthcare heroes of the Covid-19 epidemic. Prints of the painting hang in all Intermountain Healthcare facilities in both Utah and New York, and were gifted to the Utah and New York frontline healthcare workers during the covid outbreak. Her work has gained global recognition as she has won awards such as finalist in the Portrait Society of America, and top four finalist in the worldwide speed painting competitions Art Battle and ...

2013-2015 BFA, University of Utah
2011-2013 Hein Academy of Art
2010-2011 Bridge Academy of Art