Olav Berg
218-654-0042
OlavBerg@rhyta.com
Profile
Art Lecturer with 10+ years of experience in facilitating learning in the fine arts focusing on contemporary artists who use digital media as a tool for photographic practice. Specialist in the communication of visual ideas through computer, digital camera and hybrid practice with a basis in photography as a medium for creating art. Active, exhibiting artist with portfolio of work available upon request. Contributed to 20% increase in BFA students taking up post-graduate studies and 15% increase in average test scores. Winner of Fine Art Photography Award 2017 in seascape category. Seeking to leverage my passion and expertise in the role of Photography Lecturer at Central Michigan University.
Education
2008 MFA in Visual Art, Major in Expanded Media
Department of Visual Art
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Thesis Exhibition: “Shadows of Automation: Landscape with Metaphysical St George”
Faculty Mentor Professor Maria Velasco
2005 BFA in Visual Art, Major in Expanded Media
Department of Visual Art
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Graduated summa cum laude
2001 BA in French
Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Graduated with Honors in French
Professional Appointments
Sep 2014–Present Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sep 2011–Aug 2014 Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Sep 2008–Aug 2011 Research Associate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Grants and Awards
2019 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for Juxtaposed Manifesto of Superficial Matter
2018 Shortlisted: San Francisco Foundation Visual Arts Award for Eroded Sunset on Geopoliticus Component
2017 Winner: San Francisco Foundation Visual Arts Award for Melancholic Response with Dimensionality
2016 Shortlisted: Winter Solstice Juried Art Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA for The Electronic Venus
2015 American Express Cultural Heritage Grant for Work and Soul a Matter of Death
2014 Winner: Sunniest Place on Earth All Media Juried Show, Yuma, AZ for Still Life with Undefined Contrast
2012 Artist Grant, California Arts Council for The Repulsive Metamorphosis - Kafka Rebooted
2010 Shortlisted: Fish and Wildlife Conservation Art Contest, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for Wild at Heart
2009 Winner: SD Arts Prize for Muse Ecstasy Reconsidered
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Two-Person Exhibition, Forthright Dualities in Didactic Discourse, Cumberbatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with mixed media artist Tarquin St Clair)
2018 Solo Exhibition, Craven Poet in the Distance, Venn Exhibition Space, San Francisco, CA
2017 Solo Exhibition, Ode to Aesthetic Knowledge, KC Gallery, San Diego,, CA
2016 Manifesto of Metaphysical Hope, Shortland Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Maria Makunjuola)
2015 Solo Exhibition, The Modern Alteration, Green Grove Gallery, Valencia, CA
2014 Solo Exhibition, Theme from Enslaved Disgust, Althorp Gallery, San Jose, CA
2013 An Echo of Melancholy, Hemsworth Gallery, San Bernadino, CA (curated by Stanislava Janáková)
2012 Two-Person Exhibition, Summation and Summation, Dry Gulch Gallery, Bakersfield, CA (with sculptor Luiza Souza)
2011 Landscape with Linear Exclusion, Silverado Gallery, Reno, NV (curated by Corey Masterson)
2010 Solo Exhibition, Apropos in Biscuit, Silverado Gallery, Reno, NV
2009 Solo Exhibition, Embarrassed Ego Fractionated, New Masters Gallery, Hawthorne, NV
2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Commissions
2017 Public Art Commission, Velut arbor aevo, hybrid photographic mural, Bakersfield Nature Center, Bakersfield, CA
2014 Corporate Art Commission, Diente Blanco Grande, mixed media mural, Access Dental Corporation Headquarters, Sacramento, CA
2012 Public Art Commission, Sentiment Life Fractionated, photographic mural, San Bernadino Town Hall, San Bernardino, CA
Collections
Ashmore Collection, Long Beach, CA
Clifton Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dennis Amenaza Collection, Las Vegas, NV
Bibliography
- C. Siete, “Grayscale grandeur: Winter Photo Fair Success,” San BernardinoPost,
San Bernardino, CA, Feb 13, 2016. 76.
Brick Tamlyn, “Wilderness Photography Prize,” KNK-TV, Palm Springs, CA, July 7, 2014.
Dennis Chang, “Jury Prizes,” Art Attack, May 16, 2013. http://artattack.com/archived/art-77092
Publications
“Faulkner Envisioned: Depictions of Southern Gothic,” The Tennessee Fine Art Digest, Tyrone Banks and Irma Watson, eds. (Knoxville, TN: Northern Tennessee University Press, 2014): 107–135.
“Mixed Media as Literary Critique,” New Visions, April 2013,. 86–97.
“Vade Retro Satana - The Art of Exorcism,” Ars Heretica, March 2012. www.arsheretica.com/contributor/kecharm/
Representation
Brutum Fulmen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
References
Charlotte Jameson
Distinguished Professor
UCLA Department of Art
Broad Art Center, Suite 2275
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1615
(310) 825-3388
cjameson@arts.ucla.edu
Professional Service
Board of Trustees, Long Beach Painters Guild, Long Beach, CA
Professional Organizations
College Art Association
National Association for the Visual Arts
Photographic Society of America
Foreign Languages
French—Fluent