Olivia Aguiar
Artist member since 2021
Toronto, Ontario
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplinary but primarily forwards oil and acrylic painting. Across her body of work, Olivia explores her positionality as a mind that weaves across natural, technological, spiritual and psychic landscapes. Reconstructing her daily experiences into paintings, Olivia's pictorial grounds interlace figuration and abstraction to deal with melancholia and sense of self in the obscurity of contemporary being. Olivia is a recent graduate of OCAD University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Gender and Sexuality (2023).
Work
Thesis work 2023
What a wonderful world it is, the world of software for computers
- Olivia Aguiar
- 51" x 54" x 3"
- $7000 buy
One of the most difficult aspects of our existence is to make sense of it
- Olivia Aguiar
- 24" x 36" x 3"
- $1500 buy
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Inside the Studio
Q+A
Favourite artist(s) right now
Christina Quarles, Ellen Gallagher, Cecily Brown, Agnes Martin, Hito Steryl
Favourite medium
I use acrylic, oil, and photo transfers. I love experimenting.
When did you start making art, and why?
I started seriously making art at the end of high school.
Best season of the year in Toronto
I love Toronto in the summer.
Which piece of art you've created is your favourite, and why?
My favourite still is probably Feeling Everything All the Time. I feel like it launched me into the type of work that I'm doing now so I look at it very fondly :)
Why is art important to you?
It keeps me moving my body and using my brain. It's also makes me feel connected.
Select Past Exhibitions
2024
2023
2023
2022
2022
2019
2018
Accolades
2023
2022
2022
2021
2020
Press
2021
Residencies
2022
2021
Education
2023
Social
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