Brian Olson

Lecturer

Brian Olson

Brian Olson is an artist and social entrepreneur from New Hartford, Iowa whose work explores the "hyper narrowing of audience". He is the owner of Galería Foo, a commercial gallery in Miraí, Brazil and co-owner of Downtown Garden, a design and manufacturing company developing domestic vegetable structures for the urban landscape.

He is also the founder of "Dead Space Projects", an artist run mixed concept project for collaborative works converging curation, authorship and ephemerality, with specific aims to operate in alternative and non-traditional spaces.

Email bolson@usc.edu