Facilitations:
Krampusnacht
6 flags
SpiderBug
Floor Length and Tux (2009–2014)
D6 Design + Art #11, Dock 6, Chicago
Sounds Great on Paper, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
6flags, private location, Chicago
Sweeter Side of the Pond with DJ catieo and E.S.torian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
On the Ones and Twos, Loo Gallery, Chicago
Construction Over DJ as part of Meg Duguid's The Production of the Tramp's Community, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Everything Must Go! Art Fair, The Franklin segment at Heaven Gallery, Chicago
ASCII 7, The Franklin, Chicago
em(body) {Reflections; Extensions; Projections;}, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago
Rejected Prototype, The Franklin, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
6flags, private location, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Modern Folk, GAG Gallery, Chicago
Level Eater 5.0, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
ASCII 6, The Franklin, Chicago
Visitation Rites III, The Franklin, Chicago
6flags, private location, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Abominable FLAT, Multiples Art and Craft Fair
Flatuland, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago
ASCII 5, Tritriangle Gallery, Chicago
Un-86d Artist Bottle Project, CH Distillery, Chicago
Paul Germanos, Antena Gallery, Chicago
Krampusnacht, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago
Little Man Pee Pool Party: The Whiz Paddlers Lament, Antena Gallery, Chicago
Wind Chime, Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago
Over the Influence, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
Tabletop, DFBRL8R Performance Gallery, Chicago
Visitation Rights II, The Franklin, Chicago
Bridgeport Art Parade, Bridgeport Day, Version Fest 12, Chicago
Objet Petit Ahh..., Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
ASCII 3, California Clipper, Chicago
Group Show, FLAT 9–11, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago
FLAT 9 Prelude, MDW Art Fair, Chicago
10 course meal, YouTube Assembly, Nightingale Theatre, Chicago
Mischief Night, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Installation, Gravity & Its Friends SpiderBug group show, Voice of the City Studio, Chicago
Group show, "Grown", Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago
Group Show, FLAT 5–8, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago
Performance, "It Has Come to Our Attention That We Do Not Own a Pair of Black Stilettos", Version Fest 10, Chicago
Group Show, Zombie: A Mindless Affair, Antena Gallery, Chicago
Joint sculpture piece, "Pie Art", The Last Supper, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Organizer of SpiderBug Flunking Calculus, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Group show, FBI as part of DOGCAT, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago
Group Show, Shrill and a Half Block Party presented by Joymore Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Group Show, FLAT 1–4, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago
Group Show, Molotovia Cottontail vs. Dusty Bunnyfield, mini dutch gallery, Chicago
mini fair, miniFLAT, mini dutch gallery, Chicago
Group Show, inclusion for 12 X 12 of Edra Soto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Organizer of SpiderBug Rube Goldberg Failures Screening Exhibition, Deadtech Gallery, Chicago
Associate Degree of Science, Chicago, Kansas City (MO) and St. Louis
The House of Seven Closets, Chicago
COMA 18, California Occidental Museum of Art
Organizer of SpiderBug Kickoff Screening, The Green Lantern, Chicago
Chicago Artists Month, Webster Wine Bar, Chicago
Synchronized Pieing, Central Park, NYC
A Night at the Races: Racecar is Racecar Backwards, but Piecar Forwards is a Challenge, Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago
Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?, Elastic Arts Foundation Gallery, Chicago
COMA 7, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
Laugh Seriously, Butcher Shop Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago
Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival, Chicago
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Strange and Bizarre Show, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago
Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago
Group exhibit, Gold Star, Chicago
Group exhibit, Monkey Business Gallery, Chicago
New Mark bold remark, Monkey Business Gallery, Chicago
Peoplespaces, Bighouse Space, Chicago
MEoW
Cafe Mustache and The Owl, Chicago, September 2019
spring intuit: OUT OF THIS WORLD, as part of the Starship Philharmonia
Low Res Studio, Chicago, May 2019
ELCTRC BTRFLY
The Owl, Chicago, December 2018
6 flags, Chicago, August 2018
Cafe Mustache, Chicago, January 2019
SpiderBug: Starship, as part of The Starship Philharmonia
DFBRL8R and Intuit Gallery, Chicago, 2017
The Haxan 5, Terrain, Chicago, 2105
SpiderBug: Call of the Jabberwocky, as part of The Bodice Cobra Philharmonia
Terrain and DFBRL8R, Chicago, 2015
Call of the SpiderBug, as part of The Bodice Cobra Philharmonia
DFBRL8R, Chicago, 2011
Hoblin, International Pancake Film Festival, Chicago, etc.
Plungin' Dough Gods, International Pancake Film Festival, Chicago, etc.
You Can't Do that Shit on Television compilation, Loo Gallery, Chicago
Traffic Salt, Defiant Orange, Salted Popcorn, Jubjub Club, Call of the Jabberwocky, SpiderBug screening. Terrain, Oak Park and DEFIBRILLATOR, Chicago
Sea Battles, International Pancake Film Festival tour: Cambridge, Chicago
SpiderMan, The Anal Hand, Now See Hear, Believe Inn, Chicago
Crepes Suzette, International Pancake Film Festival tour: Cambridge, Austin, Chicago
Winter Collection, International Pancake Film Festival tour: Cambridge, Chicago
Film compilation, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Blue Collar Haulers, International Pancake Film Festival tour: Chicago, San Antonio, Cambridge
TBA, Fringe Suite and Interlude, BYOFF#2: Backyard Outdoor Film Festival, Chicago
French Toast, International Pancake Film Festival tour: Chicago, San Antonio, Cambridge
Just Looking, intro to Kick premiere screening, Chopin Theater, Chicago
"Lanolin Dreams", Origins, Random House, Chicago
Lambosaurus, For Better or Worse, SpiderBug screening, The Nightingale Theatre, Chicago
Just Looking", Heaven Gallery Tour: Berlin, Prague and Paris
The Hand Film, Heaven Comedy Video Show, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
TBA, The pH show SpiderBug screening, Art Exposium, West Chicago, Finch Gallery, Chicago
Lambosaurus, Ashtrays to Art, The Architrouve, Chicago
Star Wars VII, COMA 15, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
The Hand Film, COMA 13, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
Just Looking, The Third Winter Screening, Heaven Gallery (Chicago), Green Room (Milwaukee) and Echo Park Film Center (LA)
Endless Summer III, The 3rd Annual Apple Cider Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
The Fringe Suite and Interlude, COMA 6, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago
P. Bunny Does His Taxes, Easter Tax Pageant Show, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
Coopdesque, Heaven Gallery and The Ice Factory's Ice Capades, Chicago
BFA, August, 2000: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BS, May, 1995: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Northeastern University, The Franklin, Chicago, 2012
Co-Prosperity School, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, 2012
American Way, Local Takes: Chicago, May 2019
COMP Art & Design Magazine, Catie Olson & EC Brown — Shoulder-to-shoulder, March 19, 2018
DNAinfo, "Chicago Krampus Fest Celebrates the Demonic Christmas Devil, Dec. 4, 2014
NewCity Chicago, "SpiderBug Is a Monster Film Festival", Aug. 7, 2011
Examiner.com, "Catie Olson—SpiderBug, FLAT, Recipe Roulette, and building a pair of shoes as an eight-year-old", Oct. 6, 2010
Chicago Art Magazine, "FLAT 3 at Floor Length and Tux", Oct. 2, 2009
Chicago Journal, "Tour de pie", Dec. 28, 2006
NewCity Chicago, "Political Propaganda", Oct. 28, 2004