Photo Credit: Stef Allespach
About
Originally from California but now based in New York, Oona splits her time between her own art practice and ORT Project collaborative. Her approach is a collage of materials and mediums which result in detritus objects, installations, and photographic-based assemblages or digital prints. With a decidedly dark sense of humour, Nelson is focused on exploring and critiquing aspects of consumption, abundance, and decay. While trying to balance the grotesque and the beautiful, Nelson often mixes in personal subject matters with art history, cult of convenience, environmental threats, and distorted value systems. Nelson has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Masters Degree in New Genres from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally.