Nancy Andruk Olson
BORN Los Angeles, California
LIVES AND WORKS Bountiful, Utah
EDUCATION Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bachelor's of Fine Arts, Painting, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Writ and Vision, Lover Lay Down, Provo, UT
2021 Because I Am Still in Love With You, SLCC, Salt Lake City, UT
2020 Artist in Residence Solo Show, BDAC, Bountiful, UT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Statewide Annual Competition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
Certain Women, JKR Gallery, Provo UT
Portrait of An Artist, Writ & Vision, Provo UT
LOVE, JKR Gallery, Provo UT
TRANSFERENCE, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden UT
2023
LOVE, JKR Gallery, Provo UT
2022
WOW Sears Art Museum, St George UT
LOVE, JKR Gallery, Provo UT
2021
Rouge: Utah Women’s Voices, Sears Art Museum, St. George UT
Certain Women,Anthony's Fine Art: Salt Lake City UT
LOVE, JKR Gallery, Provo UT
Wildfires in Utah,Bountiful Davis Art Center Bountiful UT
2020
Salt City, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City UT
Rouge: Utah Women’s Voices, Bountiful Davis Art Center:, Curator, Bountiful UT
Juried Women’s Show AAUW: West Valley Utah
2019
A Very Big Tiny Art Show, Southern Utah Museum of Art Cedar City UT
Annual Statewide Competition, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
Art of Water III Juried Exhibition, James May Gallery, Algoma WI
Spring Fine Art and Faith Exhibit, Alliance of Covenant Artists, Salt Lake City UT
2019
Plein Air Competition 2nd Place Winner, Bountiful Davis Art Center Bountiful UT
Unusual Views Sturt Haaga Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2018
Effets De Neige: Contemporary Winter Paintings, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
Spiritual and Religious Show, Springville Museum of Art, Springville UT
Plein Air, Honorable Mention. BOuntiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
SMOFA Spring Salon Merit Award Winner April Springville UT
Handed Down and Altered, Center For LDS Arts, New York NY
18th Biennial Juried Utah Women Artists Exhibition, AAUW,West Valley UT
300 Plates Art Access Gallery,Salt Lake City UT
Spring Fine Art and Faith Exhibit Alliance of Covenant Artists,Salt Lake City UT
Love, Etc, Impasto Art Gallery,Longmont CO
2017
Petite Impressions, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden UT
Mt. Olympus Invitational Exhibit, Bountiful Davis Art Center Bountiful UT
Plein Air Competition 2017 1st place Winner, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
Bloom II, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2016
Plein Air Competition 2nd place winner, BOuntiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful UT
2013
Tin Group Invitational, Rio Gallery Salt Lake City UT
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 St. George Arts Council Choice, Purchase Award, and Honorable Mention
2021 AAUW Ruth E Turner Merit Award Winner
2019 BDAC Statewide Competition Honorable Mention
2019-2020 “Test Site” Artist in Residency at Bountiful Davis Art Center
2019 BDAC Plein Air Competition 2nd Place
2018 SMOFA Spring Salon Merit Award
2017 BDAC Plein Art Competition 1st Place
COLLECTIONS
Margaret Weber Small Works Collection, Salt Lake City UT
St. George Museum of Art, St George UT
Dan Chambers Collection, Centerville UT
Skip Doty Collection, Palisade CO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Fry, Victoria J. “Nancy Andruk Olson,” New Visionary Magazine, Issue #6, April 22
2023 Aurora, Charuka. “Nancy Andruk Olson,” Arts to Hearts Magazine, Issue #2, March 22
2022 Swanson, Vern, Poulton,Donna, Jones Swanson, Angela and Christensen, Micah
“Nancy Andruk Olson,” Dictionary of Utah Fine Artists, page 15
2022 Plein Air Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 5, October- November page, page 23
2021 Karl, Alexandra, Wildfires in Utah Art, Homes and Land Exhibition. Exh. Cat.
January 8 - February 20
2021 “The Art Edit,” House And Garden UK, March, page 168
2021 Andruk Olson, Nancy. “Letter: Destroying Minerva Teichert's work tells LDS female artists
their work doesn't matter,” Salt Lake Tribune, April 11
2021 Andruk Olson, Nancy. Nancy Andruk Olson's John McAllister Crush,” 15 bytes, February 13
2020 Artemis Journal, Volume XXVII, page 50
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY - CONT.’D
2020 Hoffman, Linda. “Nancy Andruk Olson and Her Artwork,” Segullah, September 26
2020 Jacobs, Becky. “See art by Utah women as exhibits mark the anniversary of the 19th
Amendment,” Salt Lake Tribune, August 8
2020 Karl, Alexandra. “Nancy Andruk Olson's Teeming Mural at BDAC is Ignited by Nostalgia and
Longing,” 15 bytes, June 19
2018 Springville Museum of Art 94th Annual Spring Salon. Exh. Cat., page 88