CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: damienberdichevsky@gmail.com
Website: www.damienolsenarts.com
Instagram: @damienolsen
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BIOGRAPHY
Damien Olsen Berdichevsky is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961 to a Ukrainian immigrant family. He studied Psychology and Dance Theater at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1980, Olsen moved to Brazil and continued to study at the University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. Later he lived in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. And studied Capueira and African Arts. Olsen studied Zen and History of Buddhism at Shobo-An Zen Center in Cordoba, Argentina, 1986-89. In 1999 Damien moved to New York and become an American citizen. Throughout the years, he has consistently continued to produce art and music. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
BIOGRAPHY II
Damien Olsen Berdichevsky is a transdisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, sculpture, and electroacoustic music. With a background in psychology and psychoanalysis, his work engages with the unconscious and dream theories, exploring states of transformation, rupture, and intensity across mediums. He was a performing dancer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, trained in dance-theater, and later expanded his practice to include both visual and musical forms.
In his early years in New York, his work was supported by art dealers Cecilia de Torres and Ivan Karp. He studied music composition and jazz improvisation with Raoul Björkenheim, and his musical work continues to inform the structural and temporal qualities of his broader practice.
His long-term Zen training under the guidance of Robert Aitken Roshi, along with a deep interest in esoteric systems such as Tarot, I Ching, and Kabbalah, informs an approach that favors philosophical, existential, and occult concerns over political or didactic content. Today, his practice draws from multiple disciplines rather than a singular formal trajectory, allowing for a sustained exploration of presence, disappearance, and the instability of meaning.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
SOLO SHOWS:
SYNESTHESIA SPACE - 2019, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY
SAZONOV ARTIST GALLERY - 2002, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
ART LAND BAR - 2002, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
SCENE GALLERY - 2001, New York, New York
BANCO do BRASIL 1998, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
CENTRO CULTULAL MARIA BETHANIA - 1984, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
BWAC - 2022, “Wide Open” Juried Show, 3rd Place, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
CULTURE LAB LIC - 2022, A Queens Fine Art Spring Affair” Long Island City, NY
AHA FINE ART - 2021, “Viva La Memento Mori” Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
AG GALLERY - 2021, “Art In Boxes” Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY INCUBATOR STUDIO GALLERY - 2021, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY RHOMBUS SPACE - 2021, “Growth”, (Virtual )
WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION - 2005, Washington Depot, CT NURTURE ART - 2005, “Paper, Paper, Paper” Brooklyn, NY
OPEN GROUND - 2004, “Sediments” Brooklyn, NY
A.R.C. GALLERY - 2002, “I See London, I See France” Chicago, Ill NURTURE ART - 2001, “REACTION TO 9/11” New York, NY
NOHO GALLERY - 2000, “C.A.S. Group Show” New York, NY
TIMES SQUARE HOTEL - 2000, “C.A.S. Group Show” New York, NY GALERIA ROBERTO ALBAN -1993, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
CAIXA FEDERAL ECONOMICA - 1986, Sao, Paulo, Brasil. 3rd Place Prize
COLLECTIONS:
Works are held in private collections in the US, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and Israel.