Jacob Olmedo [email protected] @jacob_olmedo jacobolmedo.com
EDUCATION
Parsons School for Design, New York, NY The New School Masters of Fine Art - Textiles 2020
Parsons School for Design, New York, NY The New School Bachelor of Fine Art - Fashion Design 2017
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Design by Time , Columbia Museum of Art , Columbia, SC Design by Time , San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA 2020 Hybrid, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ Design by Time , Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC 2019 Design by Time , College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH bft Capsule Collection Showcase , bioFASHIONtech LAB, Stamford, CT Design by Time , Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Future of Rugs , OBEETEE Showroom, New York, NY Parsons Festival , Parsons Gallery, New York, NY Design by Time Curated by Ginger Duggan and Judy Fox , Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Living Product Partnership with the Healthy Material Lab, NYC Design Week Industry City, Brooklyn, NY Unleashing Curated by Livia Alexander and Isin Onol, Columbia University, New York, NY 2017 Talking Textiles Curated by Li Edelkoort , Invisible Dog , Brooklyn, NY SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Jacob Olmedo Showcase , John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA 2019-2020 Powerhouse Arts Textile Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY OBEETEE Artist in Residence, Mirzapur, India 2018 TILL Designer in Residence, Stamford CT 2017 Jakes Cafe, Sheboygan, WI
AWARDS
Winner, International Talking Textiles Waxman Prize (2020) Runner Up, Role Model Competition (2020) Recipient, Pioneer Award (2020) Recipient, CFDA Future of Fashion Graduate (2020) Recipient, CFDA Future of Fashion Graduate (2017) Winner, Future Textile Designer of the Year (2017) Winner, Role Model Competition (2017) Finalist, International Talking Textiles Waxman Prize (2017)
SCHOLARSHIP/GRANTS
Recipient, John. L. TIshman Scholarship for Sustainable Design (2019-2020) Recipient, Council of Fashion Designers of America Liz Claiborne Graduate Scholar (2018) Recipient, Tishman Scholarship (2018) Winner, The Ruth DeYoung Kohler Scholarship for Artistic Excellence (2013)
SELECTED PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
2020 “El arte Jacobo Olmedo que enamora” L’Officiel Mexico (Raquel Azpiroz) “Rising Artist- Jacob Olmedo” PBS “Role Models Award Winners Lead the Way in Healthy Materials” Metropolis (Ethan Tucker) “Inside the Tactile Art of Textile Designer Jacob Olmedo” All Arts (Britt Stigler) “Parsons’ Inaugural MFA Textile Graduates Debut Capstone Projects” Interior Design (Quinn Halman) “Textile Prize, New York Textile Month” New York Textile Month “Hybrid” Textile Talent (Jacob Olmedo) “A New Frontier in Regenerative Textile Design” Mohawk Group (Royce Epstein)
2018 “Is Sustainability Enough?” CFDA (Jacob Olmedo) “We Spotlight four Cool Sustainable Fashion Labels” FEMALE (Keng Land Shuen) “Experimental Textiles Designer Jacob Olmedo Welcomes Public to TILL- Supported Design Studio” WWD (Rosemary Feitelberg)
2017 “Jacob Olmedo is Radically Rethinking What Clothing Can Be” No Kill Magazine (Katya Moorman) “Fashion Future Graduate Showcase 2017: the young designers” Vogue Italia (Rachel Glicksberg) “Six Standout collections from Parsons 2017” Dezeen (Dan Howarth)
SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
2019 Textile Workshop, bioFASHIONtech LAB, Stamford, CT “And The World Will Be As One”, Residency Unlimited , Brooklyn, NY
2018 Maker Breaker Artist in Residence/Instructor, Etude Schools, Sheboygan, WI “And The World Will Be As One”, Anywhere and Elsewhere/ The New School, New York, NY Connecticut Retooled, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT “And The World Will Be As One”, Monclair University- Arts and Forum, Monclair, NJ
2017 Runway Earth- the fashion designer and earth scientist in conversation, The Unitarian Church, Westport, CT “And The World Will Be As One”, Living Product Expo, Pittsburgh, PA