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		<title>Left-side Navigation</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:47:43 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Olivia Mikolai Ridge

Recent ProjectsGiants

Ceramics
Mythologies: Pool VLand/Scape 

Past
Projects

On earth for a moment with youCasting Crime

University Without Walls Photo Collaboration

This City Is Always, Even When It Isn’t
Touristing the Canadian West
Νάρκισσος

Dust
Lake Louise


Returned

Searching for My Grandmother

Teaching



	The Silver Lining

This is Not a Yearbook

Nineteen Percent Grey


Spectre
Intervening in the Archive&#38;nbsp;


Contact

Bio &#124; CV
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		<title>Bio</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:48:33 +0000</pubDate>

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ARTIST STATEMENTThrough photography, I investigate systems of representation. My work traces the intersections of voyeurism, violence, and mythology across media &#38;amp; commercialized landscapes. I bring together ceramics, photographic materialities, and immersive installations to trace the ritualization of image-making as an embodied performance of collective mythologies and desires.
BIOOlivia Mikolai Ridge (b. 1992) is a visual artist living and working in Milwaukee, WI. Ridge’s research-based practice involves explorations in collaboration, traditional printing methods, arts programming &#38;amp; administration, teaching, and private investigation. She received a BFA in photography from Concordia University in Montréal and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of the Weinstein Memorial Fellowship award and invited artist collaborating with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project University Without Walls degree students at Stateville Prison.
Contact: olivia.ridge@gmail.com
Instagram: @olivea.m

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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:54:09 +0000</pubDate>

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EDUCATION 



2020 - 2022&#38;nbsp; MFA Studio Art, Photography, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
2016 - 2019&#38;nbsp; BFA
Studio Art (with Honours Distinction), Photography Program, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada 



2011 - 2013&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Classical and Near Eastern Studies,
University of Minnesota Honors Program, Minneapolis, United States &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; (Transferred
to Concordia University)



 



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2025 -&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Youth + Community Programs, Milwaukee Institute of Art &#38;amp; Design, Milwaukee, United States
2023 - &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Adjunct Faculty, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States2024 - 2025&#38;nbsp; Instructor, AUIA International Credit Courses, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea

2023 -&#38;nbsp; 2024 Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States
2021 - 2023&#38;nbsp; Production Assistant, Jonas Becker Studios, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States
2021 - 2023&#38;nbsp; Visiting Artist / Collaborator, Prison + Neighborhood Collective, Chicago, United States

2021- 2022 &#38;nbsp; Parlor
Room Visiting Artist Program Co-curator, SAIC Photography, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States
2021 - 2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Social Media Graduate Assistant, SAIC Photography Department, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States



2021 - 2021 &#38;nbsp; Graduate
Curatorial Assistant, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States



2020 - 2022&#38;nbsp; Teaching
Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States



2020 - 2020&#38;nbsp; Research
Assistant, Black Athena Collective, Chicago,&#38;nbsp;United States



2018 - 2019&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;President
of the Concordia Photography Collective, Montréal, Canada



2017 - 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Board member &#38;amp;
Representative, Concordia Photography Collective, Montréal,
Canada



2013
- 2016&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Photography instructor and Darkroom
Director, Forest Lake Camp, New
York, United States


&#38;nbsp;







GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2025 Pool V, Harbor View Plaza, Milwaukee, United States

2024 More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row, Co-Prosperity, Chicago, United States
2023&#38;nbsp; Faculty Exhibition, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States

2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Casting Crime, Graduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, United States

2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Out of Place&#38;nbsp;Billboard Exhibition, Habibi House, Chicago, United States



2019&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Imagining the Archaeology of an Image, Concordia
Photography Department Vitrine, Montréal, Canada
2018 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Soir
Festival, Ausgang, Montréal, Canada
2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Aye
Mag 3e Édition, La Factry, Montréal, Canada
2018 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; No
Chill, IMCA Collective, Visite Collective, Montréal, Canada



2017 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; McGill
Photographic Society Annual Exhibition, Montréal, Canada



2014&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Ely
Art Walk, Minnesota, United States



 



CURATORIAL PROJECTS




2026&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;The Silver Lining, artspace144, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States
2025&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; This is Not a Yearbook, artspace144,&#38;nbsp;McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States
2024 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Nineteen Percent
Grey, artspace144, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States



2024 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Intervening in the Archive, online
exhibition, SAIC Introduction to Photography Class, Chicago, United States
2023&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Spectre: Reversal Slideshow, SAIC Black &#38;amp; White Photography Class, {}() {}∆‡!(){} Art Lab, Chicago, United States

2019 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; The Waste Land, co-curation
for Concordia Photography Collective, Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montréal, Canada



2019&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;On a Scale of 1 - 10, co-organization for Concordia Photography Collective in
partnership with Feat Management, Galerie Viaduc, Montréal, Canada



2018 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Concordia
Photography Collective for Aye Mag, La Factry, Montréal, Canada



2018 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Traces of Process, co-curation
for Concordia Photography Collective, Glass Door Gallery, Montréal, Canada



2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;DarkSlide IV: Clicks, Concordia Photography Collective 2018 Publication, Montréal, Canada





 LECTURES/PUBLIC SPEAKING



















2026 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; “Fun with Purpose: Fostering Belonging &#38;amp; Connection in the Classroom,” Adjunct Connect Spotlight Speaker, McHenry County College

2024&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 















“Mythologies
of an Artist: Navigating Career, Capitalism, and Creative Practice,” Senior Seminar,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago





2023&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;UWW
Stateville Photography Series Interview, WZRD 88.3 Campus Radio, Northeastern Illinois Unversity 






2023&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Mock Jury Panel Guest, Advanced Individual Projects Course, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago
2022 &#38;nbsp; “Transforming Studio Practice - Resources and Structure of Graduate Education,” Panel Guest, Graduate Photography Critique Seminar, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago

2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Guest Critique for MFA Fall 2021 Critique Week, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago
2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Mock Jury Panel Guest, Advanced Individual Projects Course, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago
2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Portfolio Reviewer, Survival Tactics Course, Concordia University
2021
&#38;nbsp; James Weinstein Fellowship Artist Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


TEACHINGFall 2026&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Humanities Through the Arts, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States

Summer 2026 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Core Studio Photography, Milwaukee Institute of Art &#38;amp; Design Summer Pre-College, Milwaukee, United States
Spring 2026&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Photoshop as Collaborator, Milwaukee Institute of Art &#38;amp; Design Continuing Education, Milwaukee, United States
2025 - Present &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Scholarship Portfolio Class, Milwaukee Institute of Art &#38;amp; Design Community + Youth Programs, Milwaukee, United States
2024 - Present&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Darkroom I &#38;amp; II, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States2023 - Present&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Digital Photography I, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States
2023 - Present&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Digital Photography I &#38;amp; II &#38;amp; III Summer Online, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States2024 - 2025&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Digital Photography, AUIA International Credit Course, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea

Spring 2024 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Intro to Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Fall 2023 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;Black and White Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

2023 - 2024 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Digital Photography I &#38;amp; II &#38;amp; III Online, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, United States
Spring 2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Teaching Assistant, The Future of the Past: Artist &#38;amp; Archives with Dawit L. Petros, SAIC, Chicago, United States
Spring 2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Photographic Image Making with Jesse Avina, SAIC, Chicago, United States
Fall 2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Teaching Assistant, Black and White Photography with Kate O’Neill, SAIC, Chicago, United States&#38;nbsp;

ARTIST RESIDENCIES




2026&#38;nbsp;Visitor Center Artist Camp, Ewen, Michigan
2025&#38;nbsp; Pool V, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2025 Chop Wood, Carry Water, Pachamanka, Buckeye Township, Illinois

AWARDS &#38;amp; GRANTS




2026 &#38;nbsp; Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year 2026, McHenry County College

2022&#38;nbsp; Graduating Student Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2022 On the Way Out Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Student Government
2022&#38;nbsp; CMYKinda full-tuition workshop scholarship, The University of Missouri School of Visual Arts Riso Room
2021&#38;nbsp; James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago2021&#38;nbsp; School of the Art Insitute of Chicago Incentive Scholarship




















2019&#38;nbsp; Fine Arts Student Alliance Individual
Project Grant, Concordia University
2013&#38;nbsp; Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program grant, University of Minnesota 


2012&#38;nbsp; College of Liberal Arts Freshman Research
Award, University of Minnesota&#38;nbsp; 


2011 &#38;nbsp; The Charles and
Myrtle Stroud II Academic Scholarship


2011 &#38;nbsp; American Red Cross Volunteer Scholarship



 



BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 &#38;nbsp;SAIC Photo Department Catalog 2021-22, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;SAIC Photo Department Catalog 2020-21, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL



 2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Multiple Murders, Artist Book, Self-Published, Chicago



2019 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Darkslide V, Dust, Concordia Photography Collective
2019 Publication



2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Imagining
the Archaeology of an Image, Artist Book, Self-published, Québec



2013 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Album
Artwork, Nora and the Janitors, “Girls Just Want to Have Gun”, Vinyl,&#38;nbsp; North
Dakota 



2013&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Album Artwork, Nora and the Janitors, “Smoke In Your Black Sweater Is Where My Face Buried All The
Memories Of You Went,” North Dakota



2013 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; MPLSZine,
June Issue, Minnesota https://issuu.com/mplscollective/docs/mplszine-downtown/26



 
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		<title>Casting Crime</title>
				
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Casting Crime
2022

As a site of collective image production of fictional policing, television is a repository of public knowledge reproduction depicting state-sanctioned mythologies. In Casting Crime, I investigate the production of contemporary fictional crime television dramas in collaboration with aspiring actors that work as non-union background extras on NBC’s police procedural television show, Chicago PD. Together, we interpret the archetypes of cinematic crime genres and embody desires for representation, reimagining our roles in this city and proposing alternative stories for the screen. In an ongoing workshop and performance for the camera, I ask the actors to interpret this minimal set to explore the question, “who do you want to play?”. 

Through a process of exchange, dialogue, and community building, this collaboration activates the voices from the background to disrupt the power structures of the lens, bringing into focus the stories and desires of people that lend their labor to plotlines. Casting Crime aims to expose the fabrication of law-and-order ideologies and host a space for counter-narratives and dialogues around internalized systems of power and representation.
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	“on earth for a moment with you” or “eclipse study”, 2024

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		<title>Giants</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:30:27 +0000</pubDate>

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	The Giant You Know




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Participating Artists:Sarah BergrenJan Briggs
Elowyn Hunter
Evan Lanese
Sam Martinez


Noelle Nicholson
Olivia Mikolai Ridge
Jessica Swan

Richard Ward



The Giant You Know is a collaborative photographic and sculptural installation that considers the giant as a figure of myth, memory, grief, and transformation. Nine artists created fragments of an imagined giant from locally foraged wild clay, pit-fired using a traditional open-air firing process. Scattered through an aspen grove in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, these fragments form an archaeological burial ground partially unearthed from the landscape.

The giant is an inherently contradictory figure. Across mythologies, giants are protectors and monsters, creators and destroyers, ancestors and threats. They embody forces that exceed human comprehension. As we made the fragments, participants imagined giants as people we had loved, lost, feared, or carried with us.&#38;nbsp;

The project also draws from a personal and cultural history of the giant as an American icon. My mother and her four sisters worked as “pea shuckers” at the Jolly Green Giant factory in Blue Earth, Minnesota. This contemporary giant, standing 55 feet tall along I-90, recasts the ancient giant as a symbol of abundance and nourishment. The collision between ancient myth, family history, and collective memory is central to the work.

Returned to the aspen grove, the giant's remains enter an ecosystem connected by a shared underground root system. The burial ground becomes a ritual space where myth, grief, collaboration, and landscape intersect. Here, the giant is neither fully dead nor alive but returned to cycles of decay and renewal that connect human memory to the natural world.

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		<title>Land/Scape</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 02:09:02 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>Ceramics</title>
				
		<link>https://oliviamridge.com/Ceramics</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 19:16:20 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>oliviamridge</dc:creator>

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		<description>
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		<title>PNAP</title>
				
		<link>https://oliviamridge.com/PNAP</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>oliviamridge</dc:creator>

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		<description>Photo Collaboration University Without Walls Students x Olivia Mikolai Ridge



	

















This
project chronicles collaborative photographs created during a six-month-long
correspondence with Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project University
Without Walls degree students and alumni at Stateville prison. Together, we
considered the value and possibilities of photography as a tool of agency over
one’s own image.
In February 2022, PNAP staff member Jason LaFountain invited me to conduct a
photography-based project with current and former UWW students. While I was a
graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I took Jason’s
class, Visuality, Criminality, and the
Counter-Image, where we studied how photography has served to uphold 
systems of oppression and criminalization. As a photographer, I am invested in
creating the representations that people want of themselves. I was intrigued by
the irony of this invitation: to create photographs, but photographs that
would not include the students’ likenesses. No photography is allowed within
the prison, and, as we were amid the COVID pandemic, I was not able to visit the
students at Stateville. As a result, we utilized photography to reflect on the
disconnection between the inside and outside worlds, and the removal of people
from communities, which is both the ends and means of mass incarceration.
Our correspondence began with me asking the students their feelings about their
State ID photos. As the only photograph I had access to, and the most recent
photo of some students, their unanimous disdain for their State IDs helped give
me a sense of the photographs I wanted to create. In ID photos, the background
is entirely blank. At the outset, I proposed to create a photograph for each
student based on their descriptions of a real or imagined place, to envision
this empty space as one that could be representative of their actual and three-dimensional identities.
I sought to create a photograph that would be useful and meaningful to each
student.
On this website, each photograph is a portal. Clicking on the photo will
lead you to excerpts of our letters that document and explicate the
collaborative progression of the image. The student’s voice is most present
through their written words. Although we met once in person, when I was able to
attend Michael, Daniel, and Reginald’s graduation in October 2022, and once again
over Zoom, our communication was primarily in the form of letters. Jason facilitated
our exchanges by hand-delivering my printed text and their handwritten
responses during a weekly study hall.
Throughout this project, I questioned the value of photography, knowing that
any recreation of a memory or ambition cannot satisfy the real. The resulting
photographs are all fictions in some regard. By following the correspondence,
you can trace the development of the image through the process of exchange,
 experiments, rabbit holes, failures, photo combinations, and post-production.
Collaboration is both limitless and ambiguous. This ethos begins as an open
process, that slowly must find its fuzzy borders of compromise and definition to
come to a result. Our published exchanges lay bare the early ideations and
possibilities as they crystallized into eight final photographs. These letters
refuse the flattening of identity by personifying authorship and annotating
intention. As a collaborator, I have tried to make and bring together images
that showcase the vision most closely described in each student’s writing.&#38;nbsp;Olivia Mikolai Ridge
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Click on photographs for further correspondence&#38;nbsp;
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Thank you to the Prison + Neighborhoods Arts/Education Project and Jason LaFountain for organizing this space of dialogue and collective creativity. 

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		<title>This City Is Always</title>
				
		<link>https://oliviamridge.com/This-City-Is-Always</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 17:56:14 +0000</pubDate>

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This City Is Always / Even When It Isn’t
2021--


This City is Always/ Even When It Isn’t traces the intersections of voyeurism, violence, and mythology across media landscapes, focusing on the experiences and representations of people in Chicago. 





In the late 19th Century, the New York City Police Department opened its collection of mugshots to the public, in the first Rogues' gallery. For the spectator of the criminal image, the Rogue’s Gallery served as a site to contemplate a “criminal type” and project their own imagination onto the subjects. In my current work, I draw upon connections between the voyeurism inherent in this looking and the obsession with watching fictional violence unfold on television, imagining the cop show as a contemporary Rogues’ gallery. Framing my investigations as detective work, I stalk the filming sets across Chicago. These productions impose a second, fictive city on the physical landscapes of Chicago, which is centered around criminological narratives. 


Expounding on the culture of compulsive binge-watching, I exaggerate the voyeurism of spectatorship to discover how cinematic fiction is created, how it imposes on reality, and is consumed by the public. This living document printed in 4 risograph inks looks toward the background, bringing into focus the stories and desires of people that lend their labor to plotlines. To confront dominant narratives and representations reliant on gendered and racialized stereotypes, I bring together portraits, interviews, risograph printed books, and photographic backdrops that reimagine our roles in this city and propose alternative stories for the screen.



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