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Olga Hiiva
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Updated: 2024-08-03 21:50:17
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RESUME

Olga Hiiva was born in the former Soviet Union, in the era of “refusnics” and “samizdat”. The family was among first one hundred Decedents to immigrate to Israel and later to the United States.                                                                                        

Olga began her studies of art at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Russia. After receiving her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC.  She went to Paris on a French Gov. fellowship award and worked at the studio of Henrie Cartier Bresson. Olga earned her MFA at Pratt Institute, then received a scholarship to attend the Skowheegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Ms Hiiva participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre in Canada, Blue Mountain Centre NY, and the Inter Arts Colony NY. She has exhibited at ABC Carpet and Home, NYC. Tenri Institute, NYC. Dowling College, LI. Brauer Museum, Conn. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. DC.  Currently she is a National Member of the AIR gallery, Brooklyn NY.

Olga paints on tablecloths, bedspreads and garments that she finds in thrift shops, trunks, and attics. Sometimes, she paints on fabrics that are very old and have been passed down to her by relatives. The process by which Ms. Hiiva arrives at her paintings is akin to an archaeological unearthing of found objects, where an object is discovered and then rediscovered with layers of meaning within the assorted cloth. She looks for patterns woven, embroidered, or sown by the invisible hands, letting the existing patterns guide her work. When contemplating the concepts of female dependence and independence, motherhood and sacrifice, of beauty, violence and vulnerability  

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        EDUCATION

  • Pratt Institute. Degree-MFA. Brooklyn. NY
  • Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan,Me. 
  • Ecole de la Grande Chaumier. Paris. France.
  • Corcoran School of Art. Degree-BFA. Washington D.C.
  • Hermitage Museum. St Petersburg. Russia. 
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  • AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
  • 2022-2028                             A.I.R Gallery. New York. National  Member.. Awarded residency.  
  • 2018                                      Blue Mountain Canter Residency Fellowship      
  • 2009                                      Artist Talk on Art. Curator's Choice NYC
  • 1991                                      Donald and Stella Cameron Memorial  Residency Fellowship on "Border                                                                  Culture”. Banff  Center, Canada,                               
  • 1982-83                                 French Government Fellowship-Award for Painting and Research. C.R.U.S                                                              Drawing seminars w/A.Cartier Bresson. Research on: “The Russian Avant                                                                 Garde 1920's”. Paris. France. 
  • TEACHING
  • 2018-present                         Teaching artist Advisory Board for “Marquis Studios” NYC
  • 1991-present                         Teaching Artist: “Marquis Studios”. NYC.
  • 1997-98                                 Teaching Artist: “Studio in a School”. NYC.
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  • EXHIBITIONS
  • 2024                                        AIR Gallery  National Members "Write me Letters" you write to me. Exhibition. NYC.
  • 2023.                                       AIR Gallery "Sunshowers." National Members  exhibition. NYC.
  • 2022                                        AIR Gallery.” Structures of  Feeling.”  National Members Exhibition. NYC.
  • 2020                                        Solo Studio Retrospective. 303 Park Ave. South. NYC.
  • 2017                                        Solo Exhibition, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales. “Las Desaparecidas”,                                                              Santiago.  Cuba.
  • 2015-16                                   Solo Exhibition-ABC Carpet and Home. “The Vanished”. NYC.
  • 2015                                        Widow Jane Mine Cave. “Inner Spaces II”. Installation and Performance.                                                                  Rosendale. NY.
  • 2014                                        Wired Gallery, Group. “A Global View”, High Falls. NY.
  • 2013                                        Solo Studio Retrospective. 303 Park Ave. So. NYC.
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  • PUBLICATiONS 
  • 2024.                                       "Write me Letters" you write to me. Nicole Kaack: AIR Publication-Olga Hiiva
  • 2023.                                       "Sunshowers" Mira Dayal: AIR Catalogue-Olga Hiiva 
  • 2022                                        “Structures of feeling.” Rozario Guiralde: AIR Catalogue-Olga Hiiva
  • 2018                                        “Functions of archetypal symbols in paintings of:  M.A.Vrubel and Olga Hiiva,                                                            in  the approach of  Jungian analysis”. Moscow State Univ. Department of                                                                comparative study  of  National literature and culture. Post Graduate thesis:                                                              A.M Penkina.
  • 2016                                        “The Vanished”. Works by Olga Hiiva. Animal Stone Production publications.
  • 2017                                        Speaking of the Unspoken by: Vera Horvat. Published in “The Vanished”
  • 2014                                        Ulster Magazine: “A Global View” From Russia to Accord. By: Deborah J.                                                                  Botti.