Kristina Olson
Assistant Professor
BFA, University of Oregon; MA S.U.N.Y Stony Brook
Kristina Olson joined the faculty at WVU in 1989. Professor Olson has a M.A. in contemporary art criticism and history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1992 to 2003 she was curator of the Mesaros Galleries at West Virginia University. Curated exhibitions focused on the work of such internationally-acclaimed contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro and Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds and issues such as the use of modern architecture in the work of contemporary artists such as Rita McBride and Diana Cooper in the exhibition Frozen Architecture.
She is co-editor of Blanche Lazzell: The Life and Work of an American Modernist (WVU Press, 2004), author of exhibition catalogs, and has written book and exhibition reviews for Art Papers, South Eastern College Art Conference Review, Sculpture, and New Art Examiner. Her teaching and research fields are in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and theory.
