Karyn Olivier

**Karyn Olivier** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1968) nyɛla Philadelphia nuchee ni baŋda ŋun tuma jɛndi anfooni yaabu.

## Other activities
Olivier nyɛla ŋun daa pahi ka bɛ piigi ninvuɣ shɛba ban daa di Rome Prize for the 2023–24 cycle,  Naomi Beckwith mini Fred Wilson.

## Awards, grants, residencies

### Awards
* The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art , 2020
* The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage 2019 Fellow, 2019
* The Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, 2018
* New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Award, 2011
* William H Johnson Prize, 2010
* William H Johnson Prize–Finalist Prize, 2009
* The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, 2007
* Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, 2003

### Grants
* Harpo Foundation Grant, 2014
* The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2013
* The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007
* Art Matters Grant, 2007
* Creative Capital Grant, 2005
* Emerging Artists Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, 2004
* Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, Individual Artist Grant, 2003

### Residencies
* Lehigh University, Horger Artist in Residence, Bethlehem, PA, 2018
* The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 2009
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, 2005–2006
* The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, New York City, 2004–2005
* Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Core Program, Houston, Texas, 2001–2003
* Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, 2000

## Exhibitions

### Solo (select)
2020     *"Everything That's Alive Moves,"* Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, January 24 – May 10, 2020

2019     *When I See It*, Stockton University Art Gallery*,* Galloway, NJ, September 4 – November 12, 2019
*Because Time In This Place Does Not Obey An Order*, Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, February 8 – March 16, 2019

2018     *Karyn Olivier*, Lehigh University Art Galleries and Teaching Museum, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, January 24 – May 25, 2018

2014     *Eye Around Matter*, Marso Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, April 3 – May 31, 2014

2009     *Road Signs*, Moores Opera House, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (video premiere and live performance), November 16, 2009

2007     *A Closer Look,* Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, February 9 – May 15, 2007

2006     *Factory Installed*, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2 – September 10, 2006

2005     *Time to go home*, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, October 28 – December 17, 2005

### Group (select)
2019     *Silence is a Fence for Wisdom,* Arte in Memoria Biennale 10, Rome, Italy
*Δx (Displacement)*, American Academy in Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy, February 20 – March 31, 2019
*Emanation 2019,* Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ, April 12 – December 31, 2019

2017     *The Battle is Joined*, Mural Arts/Monument Lab, commission, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, PA, September 16 – November 19, 2017
*The Expanded Caribbean: Contemporary Photography at the Crossroads*, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, September 19 – December 10

2015     *Drifting in Daylight*, Creative Time, Central Park, NY, NY, May 15 – June 20, 2015
*Particle*, Ronald Feldman Gallery,&nbsp;NY, NY, February 14 – March 21, 2015

2014     *How the Light Gets In: Recent Work by Seven Former Core Fellows*, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

2009     *30 Seconds off an Inch*, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, November 12, 2009—March 14, 2010
*Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art*, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, November 14, 2009—March 14, 2010

2007     *Black Light/White Noise*, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, May 26 – August 5, 2007

2006     *Trace*, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, June 30 – November 12, 2006*Quid Pro Quo*, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, July 19 – October 22, 2006
*Insight Out*, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

2005    *Frequency*, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, November 9, 2005—March 12, 2006
*Greater New York 2005*, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, March 13 – September 26, 2005
*Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970*, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, January 22 – April 17, 2005

2004     *Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition*, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, September 12, 2004—March 6, 2005
*In Practice Series*, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, January 11 – April 11, 2004
*African American Art from the Permanent Collection*, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, February 22 – May 9, 2004

2003 *Sweet Dreams*, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

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