David Teng Olsen
2024 Upcoming Artist-in-Residence • New Media
David Teng Olsen
2024 Upcoming Artist-in-Residence • New Media
David T. Olsen’s work merges the worlds of mural painting, printmaking, animation, interactive digital media and performance.
David T. Olsen’s work merges the worlds of mural painting, printmaking, animation, interactive digital media and performance.
Deeply influenced by his studies in bioengineering yet feeling constrained by academia, David T. Olsen turned to art, finding in it greater freedom to explore the sciences that fascinated him and escaping the rigidity of the academic world.
The artist, fascinated by complex theories that seek to explain life, combines modern and traditional techniques to turn scientific ideas into visual objects. In doing so, he creates environments that not only explore science and life but also reveal the internal microscopic world, making the invisible intelligible to every observer.
David T. Olsen teaches courses in the Studio Art Department at Wellesley College that blend technique, theory and digital media, including animation, digital imaging, and design. At the same time, he is actively involved in the Boston art community, collaborating with institutions such as MIT and MassArt.
Current Artists-in-Residence
Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Upcoming Artists-in-Residence
Summer 2024 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Summer 2024 Artist-in-Residence • New media
Past Artists-in-Residence
Autumn 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Autumn 2023 Guest Resident • Playwright
Summer 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Textile artist
Summer 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Visual artists
Spring 2023 Artists-in-Residence • Painter
Winter 2023 Artists-in-Residence • Painters
Permanent artist-in-residence
Permanent artist-in-residence • Ceramicist
The artist, fascinated by complex theories that seek to explain life, combines modern and traditional techniques to turn scientific ideas into visual objects. In doing so, he creates environments that not only explore science and life but also reveal the internal microscopic world, making the invisible intelligible to every observer.
David T. Olsen teaches courses in the Studio Art Department at Wellesley College that blend technique, theory and digital media, including animation, digital imaging, and design. At the same time, he is actively involved in the Boston art community, collaborating with institutions such as MIT and MassArt.
Current Artists-in-Residence
Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Upcoming Artists-in-Residence
Summer 2024 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Summer 2024 Artist-in-Residence • New media
Past Artists-in-Residence
Autumn 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Painter
Autumn 2023 Guest Resident • Playwright
Summer 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Textile artist
Summer 2023 Artist-in-Residence • Visual artists
Spring 2023 Artists-in-Residence • Painter
Winter 2023 Artists-in-Residence • Painters
Permanent artist-in-residence
Permanent artist-in-residence • Ceramicist