Biography

Irene Hardiwicke Olivieri

Bio Info

General:

 Irene Hardwicke Olivieri was born and raised in southern Texas. After living in Latin America and New York, she has lived for the past ten years in a solar powered house in the high desert of Oregon, where she raises moths, water lilies, beetles and succulents. Irene spends her time painting, exploring the wilderness and working to protect wildlife.

                                                                                                           

Solo Exhibitions

2015   A Collection for Zopilote, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

 2013    Breakfast in the Forest, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2010    Some Kind of Wilderness, ACA Galleries, New York, NY

2006    Climbing the Giant, ACA Galleries, New York, NY

2005    Light Seeking Eyes, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004    New/Now, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2003    Thousand Acre Swamp, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2002    Paintings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY       

2000    Love Feathers Fur, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX

1999    Pleasure Gardens, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998    To Have and to Hold, Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY

1996    Paintings, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995    New Paintings, Bridges and Bodell Gallery, New York, NY

1992    White Room, White Columns, New York, NY

1983    New Paintings, Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX

           

Selected Group Exhibitions

 2013    ArtExpo SD, Wonderbread Factory, San Diego, CA

2012    Reflections from a Looking Glass, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Lucid Dreams, Noel Baza Fine Art, San Diego, CA

2011    Women Artists at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,

            Connecticut

            Lucid Dreams, Noel Baza Fine Art, San Diego, CA

            Women Call for Peace: Global Vistas, Travelling exhibition to venues throughout

            the U.S.

            Fragments: Modern & Contemporary Collage, ACA Gallery, New York, NY

2010    Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Arts, Portsmouth, NH

            Bare, Naked and Nude, Noel Baza Fine Art, India Street Gallery, San Diego, CA

            Survey Select: Narrative Paintings, The Wonderbread Factory, San Diego, CA

            Sea Turtle Restoration Project, San Francisco, CA

2009    Women Forward, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

            The Nature of Words, COCC, Bend, OR

2008    Voices of Dissonance: A Survey of Political Art 1930-2008, ACA Galleries, New

            York, NY

            Manifest Hope Gallery, Democratic National Convention, Denver CO.

            ACA Gallery Celebrates the Earth, ACA Gallery, New York, NY

2007    The Feminist Figure, The Forum Gallery, New York, NY

            Women’s Work, Tabla Rasa, Brooklyn, NY

2003    Hybrids, Wave Hill, New York, NY

2002    Paperworks, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

            Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT

2001    Connecticut Commission on the Arts, The Gold Building, Hartford, CT

2000    Quirky, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY  

            Con-text, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX  

            Human Nature, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

            Washington: Pride of Place, Gunn Memorial Museum, Washington, CT

1998    Wishful Thinking, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, NY

            18 x 18, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA   

1997    In the Image of Woman, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Secret Languages, Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA

            White Columns, New York, NY

 

                       

 

 Education

 

1985    New York University, New York, NY, MA

1983    University of Texas, Austin, TX, BFA

1978    Insituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

1977    Escola das Artes Visuais, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

 Selected Bibliography

 

2014    Amons, Susan Spring: A Journal of Archetype & Culture Volume 91

            Orion Magazine Summer

            Yerman, Marcia Huffington Post

            Flycatcher Journal

            Combustus Magazine

            Kenoyer, Kelly Envision Environmental Journalism

2013    Abrahams, Megan Whitehot Magazine

            Brown, Betty Ann Artillery Magazine

            Davies, Stacy Visual Art Source

            Bush, Bill Huffington Post: This Art Week LA

2012    Patrick, Renee, Cascade Arts & Entertainment, March

2010    Molarsky, Mona, Artnews, Summer 2010

            Hattam, Meredith, Visual Arts: A Pop Surrealist Dream at Survey Select

            KPBS San Diego, July 14, 2010

2009    Pierce, Eleanor, Complex Imagery, Bend Bulletin, October 30, 2009

            RGV Magazine, September

            Art for Obama, edited by Shepard Fairey and Jennifer Gross

2007    Little, Carl, Art in America, April 2007

            Leggio, Gail, A Reviving Iconography: Christina Verago and Irene Hardwicke

            Olivieri,

            American Art Quarterly, Winter 2007

2006    Oxford American, Spring 2006

            May, Caryn, What the Owl Left Behind: Off the Grid with Irene Hardwicke Olivieri,

            The Source Weekly, Oct 5 2006

            Turner, Billye, Animal Affairs.Spring2006

2005    Urger, Phillip. Time Out Chicago, Issue #17 June 23, 2005

            Camper, Fred, The Chicago Reader, July 1, 2005

            Lieber, Katherine Rook, Artscope.net, July 29, 2005

2004    Streitfeld, L.P., The Advocate/Greenwich Times, May 2, 2004

            Larcen, Donna, The Hartford Courant, March 25, 2004

            Banach, Kari, The Herald Press, March 28, 2004

2003    Myers, Holly, The Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2003

            Venice Magazine, November 2003

2002    The Week Magazine, New York, NY, April 19-25

            Zimmer, William, The New York Times, August 11, 2002

2001    Kino, Carol, Art in America, January 2001

2000    Schwabsky, Barry, Art & Text, November 2000-January 2001

            The Book Los Angeles, Summer 2000

            Goddard, Dan, The San Antonio Express News August 19

1998    Cotter, Holland, The New York Times March 13 and 20

            Connally, Kevin, The New Yorker, February 16

            Scobie, Ilka New York Arts Magazine, March

            Bergen, Mica Cover magazine, Spring

1996    Chamberlain, Francis, The New York Times

            Glowen Ron The Herald, (Seattle, WA) July

            Melrod, George, Art and Antiques, April

            Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, March 30

            Clark, Catherine, Juxtapoz, April

 

 

Recent Presentations 

 2014    The New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT

            Tin Pan Theater Earth Day presentation, Bend, OR

2011    The Creative Process, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD  

2010    Temple of Understanding: Art, Spirituality & the Transformation of Consciousness into the Ecological Age(panel

            discussion), ACA Gallery, New York, NY

            Innovations & Origins, Oregon State University

 

Other Projects:

 Irene’s paintings have appeared in the following films:

 Lords of Dogtown, Blame it on Fidel, Twilight, Red Riding Hood, Vanilla Sky, Mad City, Two Days in the Valley, Thirteen, Plush and will be featured in the upcoming film Miss you Already.

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri’s idiosyncratic, curiously complex
paintings explore the subterranean aspects of life—love and
relationships, secrets and obsessions—all the while opening a
window to the mysterious workshop of nature. A Collection
for Zopilote presents a lively array of the artist’s work: new
paintings joining together with earlier work in a vibrant salon
style exhibition.
Having lived off the grid for the past ten years in the high
desert of Oregon embedded in nature, the artist will be
creating an installation capturing the essence of her western
working environment.