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Living & Working in the Bay Area, California

My recent work (in 2025) focuses on depicting emotional states by interweaving landscapes and spaces, both real and imagined, distorted body forms, and cellular imagery -- to honor simultaneous moments of absence, desire, growth, and longing.   

Please feel to contact me with any inquiries at evaolsenart@gmail.com. Thank you!

Education

2021 - BFA Art and Design - Studio Art Concentration - California Polytechnic State University, CA, San Luis Obispo 

2019 - Diploma in Concept Art and Illustration - CGSpectrum College of Art and Design

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 - Greater Bay Area Open - Juried Exhibition - New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

2025 - Artists Award Display - Cupertino Library, Cupertino, CA

2025 - Lunar X 2025 at Lunar New Year San Jose Festival and Know Future Gallery, San Jose, CA

2024 - "Boundaries" 4th Annual Experimental Art Exhibition - New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

2024 - Lunar X at MHP and Tea Lyfe - San Jose, CA

2023 - "Let's Get Goated" - Irreverent Art Gallery, Daly City, CA

2023 - Artists Award Display - Cupertino Library, Cupertino, CA

2019 - “What the Wall Said” - University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA

2019 - Juried Student Exhibition - University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA

2019 - AIGA Pushpin Student Show - Building 34, San Luis Obispo, CA

2017 - Concept Creation Club Exhibition - Art Central, San Luis Obispo, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2014 - “BIRDS” - Red Radish, San Luis Obispo, CA

Awards

2025 - Cupertino Distinguished Artist Award - Platinum

2022 - Educator Award, Scholastic Art and Writing

2022 - Cupertino Distinguished Artist Award - Silver

2018 - WDI Imaginations Design Competition Semifinalist