Olivia Sterling
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Overview
Sterling has carved out a distinctive niche in using paint to address questions of blackness and whiteness in twenty-first century Britain.
Born in Peterborough in 1996 and graduating from the RCA in 2020, Sterling has carved out a distinctive niche in using paint to address questions of blackness and whiteness in twenty-first century Britain. Her paintings present scenes of colourful mayhem with a nostalgic twist and signature ‘slapstick’ style, combining joyous celebration with a subtle critique of racialised ways of seeing.Blending pointed references like this into her depiction of ordinary scenes and subjects, Sterling’s work reflects on how we are confronted by racialised discourse everywhere in the everyday. Even happy or anodyne spaces are encoded with structures of othering and difference; every object, every skin tone, is assigned its place in a drama that continues beyond the edges of the canvas. -
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Works
Olivia Sterling
The Women Around the Table, 2022Acrylic on canvas150 x 200 cm
59 1/8 x 78 3/4 inCopyright The ArtistFurther images
Exhibitions
2022 Olivia Sterling: Manslaughter, Guts Gallery, UKContact FormSend me more information on Olivia Sterling
Biography
© Brynley Odu DaviesB. 1996, Peterborough, England. Based in London, UK
Education
2015-2018 BA Fine Art, University of Derby
2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Your Cheeks Are Wine, Meyer Riegger, Basel
2022 Dinner with a Show, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
2022 Manslaughter, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Yowl, Nevven, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 White Bread, Cob Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Episodes, CCA Goldsmiths, London, (UK)
2021 Clutching at Straws, Volt, Eastbourne
2021 It Clings like a Leech, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 A Cure for Nose Bleeds, Marriots Way, Reepham, Norfolk
2018 Who is civilised? Gallery No.1, Repton
Institutional Exhibitions
2024 Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (UK)
Art Fairs
2024 London Original Print Fair, Soho Revue
2024 Art Basel Hong Kong, Meyer Reigger
2023 Art Basel Miami, Meyer Reigger
2023 Art Basel, Meyer Riegger
Group Exhibitions
2024 Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf, TJ Boulting, London, (UK)
2024 Bitches In Heat, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)2024 Entrée, Palazzo Monti, Italy
2024 The Arcadian Dream, Spurs Gallery, China
2024 NEW NOW: Part 2, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Rose Tinted Glasses, Ojiri Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Exhibition 01, Particular Ideas, London, (UK)
2023 Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 Rage Comics, Huxley Parlour, London, (UK)
2023 Out Here, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,(USA)
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 The Object Stares Back, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, Italy
2023 (It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2023 The Bioelectric Self Pit LA
2022 Roe, Back Room Gallery, London, (UK)
2022 Villeggiatura, Nevven, Italy
2022 What Now, PM/AM
2022 Cherry on the Cake, Sothebys, Stockholm
2022 Blob, TJ Boulting, London, (UK)
2022 In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate
2022 An Arcadian Kind of Love, Soho Revue, London, (UK)
2021 Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London
2021 Black, Bold, British, Christies, London, (UK)
2021 Don’t Go South, Studio Berkhiem, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 Play and the Post Peak, Factory Project, London, (UK)
2021 Universes 4, Galerie Droste, Paris
2021 A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 'Introducing' at the Shop, Sadie Coles x Guts Gallery, London
2021 Citizens of Memory, The Perimeter, London, (UK)
2021 Summer Show, Karen Tronel Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Selfhood, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, (UK)
2021 Safe as Milk, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, (UK)
2021 When Shit Hits the Fan Again, Guts Gallery, Online
2020 Curated for Christmas, All Mouth x Bowes-Parris Gallery, London
2020 RCA Black History Online, David Lisbon, Online
2020 Love your symptom, but not too much, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2020 A Rudimentary Education, Art Lacuna, London, (UK)
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Right Back at You, The Function Suite, London, (UK)
2020 Begin Again, Guts Gallery, Online
2020 BLACK & WHITE, The Orange Garden, Online
2020 50/50, FOLD Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 London’s New Contemporaries, A Space for Art, Hari Hotel London
2020 Materiality and Connection, curated by Joe Hill, RCA, Online
2020 Optimistic, Singular and New, curated by Jony Ive, RCA, Online
2020 Urgency, Wit and Rigour, curated by John Bloomfield, RCA, Online
2020 I Graduated From My Bedroom curated by Victor Wang, RCA, Online
2020 Slivers and Remnants curated by Esther Leslie, RCA, Online
2020 RCA2020, RCA, Online
2020 Tomorrow: London, White Cube, Online
2020 Without a Painter, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, (UK)
2020 Snapshot, RCA Hockney Gallery, London, (UK)
2019 Meet Me in the Kitchen, UCA Farnham, Surrey, (UK)
2019 Got it for Cheap, House of Vans, London, (UK)
2019 Painting from the Other Side, Dyson Gallery, London, (UK)
2018 WIP, Sackler, RCA Battersea
2018 Britannia Mill, Derby, (UK)
2017 Smoke and Mirrors, Riverlights, Derby, (UK)
2016 Ilam, Staffordshire
2014 Earth without Art, Spalding, (UK)
Residencies
2021 Fores Residency, London, (UK)
2020 HQI Summer Residency, London, (UK)
2016 Extended Contexts, National Trust IIam, England, (UK)
Artist Talks
2021 Olivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham in Conversation, CCA Goldsmiths, London, (UK)
2021 In-conversation: Olivia Sterling and Sam Kindon, Volt Eastbourne, Sussex, (UK)
2021 Drawing Around Food, Drawing Room, London, (UK)
2020 HoP Around with Alexandria Smith, RCA, London, (UK)
2020 Without a Painter in Conversation with Bolane Tajudeen, London, (UK)
2019 Artist Talk,UCA Farnham
Awards
2018, Pro Vice-Chancellor / Dean's Award 2018 Degree Show Exhibition
Exhibitions-
Bitches In Heat
Lydia Pettit & Olivia Sterling 13 Сентября - 13 Октября 2024Read more -
A Feast For The Eyes
5 - 30 Июля 2024Read more -
NEW NOW
Co-curated by Ell Pennick and Brynley Odu Davies 1 Декабря 2023 - 6 Февраля 2024Read more -
(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
13 Января - 2 Февраля 2023Read more -
OLIVIA STERLING
MANSLAUGHTER 7 - 28 Апреля 2022With this powerful body of work Sterling centres violence against women, and in particular, women of colour over the past millennia. She intentionally subverts via the canon of male dominated...Read more -
REALITY CHECK
23 Сентября - 3 Октября 2021Opening: Thur 23 Sept 6-9pm Exhibition Location: Anderson Contemporary, Carpenter’s Wharf Studios, 4b Roach Road, London E3 2PA Via Monier Road Footbridge Regular Opening Hours: Wed - Sun 11-6pm Guts...Read more -
CCA Presents Really Rough Scrubbing Brush by OLIVIA STERLING
17 Сентября - 31 Октября 2021Private View: Sep 17 6-9pm Address: Goldsmiths CCA, St James’s, New Cross, London, SE14 6AD Opening Times: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6pm Sterling’s graphic paintings and prints zone in on racist micro and...Read more -
A NEW ART WORLD
A NEW ART WORLD IS POSSIBLE. 22 - 29 Июля 2021Private View: Thursday 22 July 6-9pm Opening Hours: Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm Location: 147 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0NY No RSVP's required BUY THE MANIFESTO PRINT...Read more -
INTRODUCING
London Gallery Weekend at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ 4 - 6 Июня 2021London Gallery Weekend 4-6 June 2021 11am - 8pm (Opening day) 11am - 6pm (Regular hours) The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street, London W1B 5QN Directions...Read more
Press-
Meet the most exciting young artists in London right now
Nancy Durrant, The Standard, 15 Окт 2024 -
Lydia Pettit & Olivia Sterling: ‘Bitches in Heat’
Eddy Frankel, Time Out, 19 Сен 2024 -
Artists Lydia Pettit and Olivia Sterling in Conversation: On Self Portraiture, The Void and Bitches In Heat
Gina Tonic, Polyesterzine, 23 Июл 2024 -
Who. What. Where? No. 82
HUNGER writers, Hunger, 18 Сен 2024 -
This exhibition celebrates feral female desire
Millen Brown-Ewens, Dazed, 13 Сен 2024 -
6 ARTISTS TO FIND AT LONDON ART FAIR 2024
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 18 Янв 2024 -
London Art Fair 2024 Interviews
Olivia SterlingJamie Hope , Guts Gallery , 16 Янв 2024 -
The Future of London Art
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 11 Окт 2023 -
The art of the artist portrait, with photographer Brynley Odu Davies
Olivia Hingley, It's Nice That, 30 Мая 2023 -
The artist and the work: Portraits capturing creative solitude
Ry Gavin, Hunger Magazine, 5 Мая 2023 -
Share this article Email Facebook Twitter It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To
Tahney Fosdike, Plinth, 27 Янв 2023 -
The exhibition about femininity, sexualisation, & crying on your birthday
Millen Brown-Ewens, i-D Magazine, 19 Янв 2023 -
Sensual and grotesque depictions of modern womanhood
Emily Dinsdale, Dazed, 16 Янв 2023 -
Cate Blanchett’s Tàr, getting grotesque with Guts Gallery and a Lychee Martini at Chet’s
Hero Magazine, 13 Янв 2023 -
London’s best new galleries
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 12 Янв 2023 -
Art shows to leave the house for this January
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed, 11 Янв 2023 -
FOUR SHOWS TO OPEN IN LONDON THIS WEEK
Maribelle Bierens, Where's The Frame, 10 Янв 2023 -
(IT’S MY PARTY) I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 29 Дек 2022 -
GUTS 2022 CLOSING EXHIBITION IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN IRAN
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 15 Дек 2022 -
New Wave: Painting in Britain Today
Phillips, 8 Дек 2022 -
The best (and worst) art exhibitions of 2022
Eddy Frankel, Time Out Magazine, 15 Ноя 2022 -
Pudding with a bitter aftertaste Olivia Sterling at Meyer Riegger
Julia Meyer-Brehm, gallerytalk.net, 8 Ноя 2022 -
“MANSLAUGHTER,” BY OLIVIA STERLING AT GUTS GALLERY, LONDON
Jethro Turner, 13 Апр 2022 -
Olivia Sterling: ‘Manslaughter’
Eddy Frankel, Time Out , 11 Апр 2022 -
First Thursdays
Whitechapel Gallery , 7 Апр 2022 -
Artist Talk: Olivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham at Goldsmiths CCA
Goldsmiths CCA, Goldsmiths CCA Channel , 2 Фев 2022 -
FF2 Media Reviews Olivia Sterling's CCA Exhibition 'Really Rough Scrubbing Brush"
Jessica Bond , 1 Дек 2021 -
FAD Magazine feature Guts latest exhibition REALITY CHECK
Mark Westall , FAD Magazine , 23 Сен 2021 -
Creative Boom feature Olivia Sterling Goldsmiths CCA
Katy Cowan , Creative Boom , 22 Сен 2021 -
DAZED features latest Guts exhibition, REALITY CHECK
Emily Dinsdale, DAZED, 21 Сен 2021 -
Olivia Sterling in conversation at the Drawing Room
Drawing Room , 4 Июл 2021 -
Olivia Sterling in GQ
Sophie Hastings, GQ , 24 Июн 2021 -
Olivia Sterling featured in Wallpaper* ‘CITIZENS OF MEMORY’: NOSTALGIA AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE EXPLORED
Oyin Akande , Wallpaper*, 26 Мая 2021 -
Guts Gallery featured in The New York Times 'Gallery Weekend Brings London's Art Scene Back to Life '
Scott Reyburn, The New York Times , 7 Июн 2021 -
OLIVIA STERLING FEATURED IN SIXTH FINCH
Sixth Finch , 13 Мая 2021 -
FRIEZE REVIEWS OLIVIA STERLING 'WHITE BREAD' EXHIBITION
Leanne Petersen , FRIEZE, 20 Апр 2021 -
ELEPHANT FEATURES SOPHIE VALLANCE AND OLIVIA STERLING
Madeleine Pollard , ELEPHANT , 2 Апр 2021 -
PURPLE MAGAZINE REVIEWS “WHITE BREAD” AN EXHIBITION BY OLIVIA STERLING AT COB GALLERY, LONDON
Jethro Turner, PURPLE , 30 Мар 2021 -
DATEAGLE ART INTERVIEWS OLIVIA STERLING
Laurie Barron, DATEAGLE ART, 22 Фев 2021 -
DATEAGLE ART STUDIO VISIT WITH OLIVIA STERLING
Laurie Barron, DATEAGLE ART , 22 Фев 2021 -
Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland
Mimi Chu, Frieze, 12 Фев 2021 -
OLIVIA STERLING INTERVIEW ON SHE CURATES
MOLLIE E BARNES, SHE CURATES, 13 Янв 2021 -
ON VIEW BY FLASH ART: “It’s 2020 For F*ck Sake” Guts Gallery and Soft Punk / London
Flash Art , 11 Дек 2020 -
Olivia Sterling paints nostalgia-filled pieces to deconstruct complex issues of othering
Lucy Bourton, It's Nice That, 6 Ноя 2020 -
IT’S 2020 FOR F*CK SAKE
ART PLUGGED, ART PLUGGED, 30 Сен 2020 -
Begin Again: The online exhibition challenging austerity and racial oppression
Scarlett Baker , Love Magazine, 13 Авг 2020 -
Scrap that, lets begin again
TJ Sidhu, The Face, 13 Авг 2020 -
Begin Again is the virtual art exhibition tackling racial inequality
Gunseli Yalcinkaya, Dazed , 14 Авг 2020
