BIOGRAPHY

Ida Chloé Lou Olsen (b. 1990) is a Norwegian artist, analog film photographer, and poet whose work moves in the quiet space between image, memory, and lived experience. Born in Stjørdal and now based in Oslo, she works with film, text, and the body as extensions of each other — ways of holding what is fleeting, tender, or transforming.

Her photographs and writings trace the intimate passages of a life: childhood and its echoes, the shaping of identity, the gravity of home, and the conversation between the self and the land. Through self-portraiture and performative presence, she folds herself into forests, fields, doorways, and thresholds, touching the world as if listening for its reply.

Olsen’s work has been exhibited internationally — including Brick Lane Gallery (2023), Galleri Kyo (solo exhibition Cloudland, 2020), and Free Range (2018) — and published in Black Flower Publishing, Nowhere Diary, SOLA Journal, Black River, Closure Magazine, and Fisheye Magazine, among others. She holds a first-class BA in Photography from the University of Westminster, London.

Her practice is a devotion to the everyday — to the small moments that turn luminous when met with presence. She photographs to remember, writes to understand, and seeks the quiet life moving beneath the surface of all things.

ACADEMIES OF ARTS & PHOTGRAPHY

17-19 First Class Bachelor of Arts, University of Westminster, London, UK

15-17 Photography Vocational School, Bilder Nordic School of Photography, Oslo, NO

PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK EXPERIENCE

2023 Editing & Photo publishing on Instagram for Marcus Bleasdale,
Documentary Press Photographer for National Geographic & Human Rights Watch

2019 Free Range Shows, London, UK

2018 Internship at Lumina Gallery, Gallery Assistant & Digital Photo Assistant for
Magnum-photographer Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb in their workshop
’Finding Your Vision’, Oslo, NO

2018 Photo Assistance for Linda Bournane Engelberth, Documentary Photographer
for VII Photo, on project ‘Outside The Binary’, London, UK

2017 Planning & Curating Group Show ‘Placebo’ sponsored by Fritt Ord, Oslo, NO

2016-17 Photo Assistance for Kimm Saatvedt, Oslo, NO

INTERVIEWS

2024 Florence Contemporary ‘55 Artists to Watch: 2024 Edition’

2022 Nowhere Diary

SELECTED ONLINE FEATURES

2022 SOLA Journal Instagram take-over

2022 Black River Issue 02

2022 Nowhere Diary

2021 Closure Magazine Instagram take-over

2021 Fisheye Magazine

2021 Revolv Collective