Speaker Series: In the Shelter of Each Other, Karyn Oliverier

Join and attend this virtual presentation by Karyn Olivier who is a Philadelphia-based artist and professor of sculpture at Temple University. As an artist, Oliver engages with existing monuments and the fabrication of contemporary monuments and memorials. In this presentation, Oliver will discuss the major themes within her work, the challenges and responsibilities of working in the public realm, and the sources of inspiration that have shaped her as an artist.

This past June, Olivier mounted a solo exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York).Olivier has received numerous awards, fellowships and grants, including the 2020 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the 2018–2019 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and more so be sure to attend this presentation to learn more!