Publications

2020
New American Paintings, # 143, Midwest Issue

2017
A City at Work: Dubuque, 1912 and A City at Work: Dubuque, 2012, Loras College Press

Solo Exhibitions

2017
The Iowa State Fair Panorama, installation in the Cultural Center, Iowa State Fair, Des Monies, Iowa

 2017
St. Mary’s to Steeple Square, A Community Portrait, Steeple Square, Dubuque, Iowa

2015
Millwork Portraits, Gallery C, Dubuque, Iowa

2013
Tim Olson: Drawings and Paintings, Craft Studio Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

2012
A City at Work: 1912 and 2012, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

2009
Tim Olson, Farnham Galleries, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa

2008
A Rake’s Progress, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

2006
Drawings from 2005, Stone House Gallery, Galena, Illinois

2005
Tim Olson: Drawings and Photographs, Rocco Buda Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa

2004
Authentic Dubuque Scenes, Visitation Art Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
41st Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

2018
Photo Sensitive, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Des Monies, Iowa

2018
40th Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
PEOPLES’ CHOICE AWARD

2017
DuMA Biennial, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
SECOND PLACE JUROR AWARD and PURCHASE AWARD

2015
Midwest Summer: Light and Warmth, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2015
DuMA Biennial, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa

2014
38th Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, Augustana College Art Museum, Rock Island, Illinois

2012
The Mississippi River: A Juried Exhibit of 27 Area Artists, Outside the Lines Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa
BEST IN SHOW

2010
Ron Hahlen and Tim Olson, Outside the Lines Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa

2009
Voices from the Warehouse District 2009, Voices Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa

Harvester 2009, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2008
32nd Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, Augustana College Art Museum, Rock Island, Illinois

A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia

2007
Biennial Juried Invitational, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
SECOND PLACE JUROR AWARD

31st Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition, Augustana College Art Museum, Rock Island, Illinois
SECOND PLACE JUROR AWARD

2006
The Nude International 2006, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
ARTIST OF SPECIAL MERIT AWARD

The Greater Midwest International XXI, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri

Seventeenth National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Inc., New York, New York

2006 Curated Exhibition, Chicago Arts District Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

60th Juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa

2005
Drawing Conclusions—A National Juried Competition, MFA City Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Artistic Urbanism, Online Juried Show at art.com

The Mighty Midwest Biennial 2005, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin

2004
Annual Juried Exhibition, ArtCrave Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Looking for America, Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, Maryland

Works on Paper, Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois