Eric John Olson

Seattle, WA

Eric John Olson is an artist, technologist, organizer, and educator. His work explores systems of power and their relationship to the everyday through interdisciplinary and socially-engaged art practices. He collaborates with artists, performers, organizers, and community members to co-create projects and conduct participatory research. His recent work examines speculative futures, somatics, displacement, generational exchange, and cooperation. Olson is currently researching how movement practices can shift people’s relationship to uncertain futures.

Olson holds an MFA from Portland State University in the Art & Social Practice program and a degree in Computer Science. He has worked with technology in a variety of capacities and currently designs systems at scale leveraging AI as a software architect. Olson’s art has been supported by the Seattle Art Museum OSP Residency, MadArt Studio, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Eichholz Foundation, 4Culture, The Seattle Public Library Foundation, and others.