Karyn Olivier (b. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) received
her M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her B.A at Dartmouth
College. Olivier has exhibited nationally and internationally at
such venues as the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (Dakar,
Senegal), the Gwangju and Busan Biennials (Korea), The Museum of
Fine Arts Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), the
Wanas Foundation (Sweden), The Whitney Museum of Art at Altria
(NY), MoMA P.S.1 (NY), Uferhallen (Berlin), the SculptureCenter
(NY), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and The Mattress Factory
(Pittsburgh).
Olivier has been the recipient of many awards and grants
including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,
the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the William H. Johnson Prize,
an Art Matters grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial
Award and a project grant from the Creative Capital Foundation.
Olivier was an artist in residence at the Core Program (MFAH),
Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time
out New York, The Village Voice, Art in America, Flash Art, Mousse,
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Frieze, among others.
Olivier is currently an assistant professor of sculpture at Tyler
School of Art.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art