Francis Olschafskie

Francis W. Olschafskie has been a practicing Artist for over twenty-five years. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota , the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, the Isentan Museum, Tokyo, the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens, the Tisch School at NYU, New York, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Vermont, the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, and many more, including the highlighted below.

In 2024, THE LANGUAGE of PLACE exhibtion included Mr Olschafskie’s work in a group show at the Schoolhouse gallery in Provincetown from March 2 – May 5th.

In 2023, August 11 – 30, The SchoolHouse Gallery in Provincetown MA presented an exhibition of new Photographs by FRANCIS OLSCHAFSKIE and a suite of AI generated photographs. Olschafskie is well known for his ‘urban photography’, in-camera images at carefully found and selected locations. In this series Olschafskie takes ‘pictures of pictures’, photographs of deep spaces built with reflection, action, chance, and intention. These are rich and complex images that dazzle with light, color, and illusion. For this exhibit Olschafskie couples these color photographs with new AI generated photographs. He claims a sameness between the construction of both in the ways they are produced; inherently from within a knowledge base, transmuting the substance of gender, beauty, and identity, shifting … all of these components working to lift the portraits into a world of wonder.

In 2023 Mr Olschafskie’s photographs were featured during ART MIAMI at Palm Beach Modern + Commentary, West Palm Beach, FL.

In 2022, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the SchoolHouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

In 2022 Mr Olschafskie’s photographs were featured at The Association of International Photography Art Dealers Photography Show, AIPAD. New York, NY.

In 2022 Mr Olschafskie’s photographs were featured during ART MIAMI at Palm Beach Modern + Commentary, West Palm Beach, FL.

In 2021, PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
Provincetown, MA July 23 – Sept 19, 2021
The exhibition presented a large selection of recent photographs by Francis Olschafskie. The photographs on view were primarily from the last decade and are the result of a period of intense concentration on a particular set of subjects, methods, and sources that embody a culmination of his ideas and interests from his extensive photographic career.

In 2020, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC.

In 2020, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the SchoolHouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

In 2019, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the Fine Arts Work Center Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

In 2019, Mr Olschafskie were featured at The Association of International Photography Art Dealers Photography Show, AIPAD. New York, NY.

In 2018, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the SchoolHouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

In 2018, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at The Association of International Photography Art Dealers Photography Show, AIPAD. New York, NY.

In 2018, Olschafskie's work was placed in the Yale University Collection of Photography, New Haven CT.

In 2018, Olschafskie's work was placed in the Joe Baio Collection of Photography, NYC.

In 2018, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC.

In 2017, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the SchoolHouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

In 2016, Mr Olschafskie exhibited at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.

In 2015 - 2005, Francis Olschafskie had a one person exhibition at the ArtStrand Gallery in Provincetown, MA, where he has exhibited every year for a decade.

In 2014, Francis Olschafskie’s work was exhibited in the “Message and Means” exhibition at Columbia University. The exhibition is a review of the work of the influential MIT Media Lab’s Visible Language Workshop.

In 2011, as part of “Paris Photo”, Francis's work was featured in an exhibition entitled EXPOSITION ÉCLATS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE at le musée Adrien Mentienne , Bry-sur-Marne, France.

In March of 2009 Francis’s work was included in an exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. The exhibition was entitled “Artists Books as Culture”. The exhibition included work from individual artists as well as works from museum collections including the MOMA and the Smithsonian.

In 2008, Olschafskie's photographs were placed in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

In France in 2007, Mr Olschafskie was honored and presented an honorarium at the state of the city address by the mayor of Bry Sur Marne, France, for his work at the Daguerre Association, Bry Sur Marne, France.

Mr Olschafskie has been a faculty member at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, in NYC, The International Center of Photography in NYC, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA and Boston University where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Photography, Art History and Digital Technology.

Mr Olschafskie did his graduate work (MSVS) at the Visible Language Workshop/Media Laboratory, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his undergraduate studies (BFA) in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art. .