MFA, Rutgers University Jeanine Oleson (born April 9, 1974) is an American interdisciplinary artist working with images, materials and language that she forms into complex and humorous objects, performance, film, video, sound, and installation.
[3] Her interdisciplinary work is marked by an interest in the conflict between contemporary life, the sensorial, and material concerns.
These large-scale projects involve performative, complex tableaux that result in responses anywhere from confusion to pleasure.
Oleson's practice encompasses many different approaches to making her objects including performances, videos, installations, sound/music, art-based activism and her role as an educator.
[citation needed] Oleson is also a lead collaborator since 2013 on a participatory project, Photo Requests from Solitary that provides images to people held in solitary confinement and supports efforts to end the practice in US prisons and jails.