Kelly Olshan

Kelly Olshan is a NYC-based artist and arts manager whose sculptural paintings invite the viewer to navigate towards an unattainable place. She graduated Valedictorian from UNC Asheville with a BFA in painting, where her work is part of the University’s permanent collection, and went on to receive her MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited nationally: solo exhibitions include Portals at Ground Floor Contemporary (Birmingham, Alabama), Reimagined Landscapes at Sean Christopher Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), and Perpetual Pursuit: Painting the Unattainable at Tucker Cooke Gallery (Asheville, NC). Group exhibitions include The Yard (NYC), Equity Gallery (NYC), Yashar Gallery (Brooklyn), among others. She serves as a frequent panelist for NYC Percent for Art Program, and on the NYC DOT Public Art Advisory Committee. In 2019, she was named an Emerging Leader by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).