Olivia Mossuto

Olivia Mossuto is an emerging artist, designer, and writer based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and Between the Lakes Treaty No. 3. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, and installation with an approach that coalesces on topics of kitsch, craft, grief, and nature.

She completed her undergraduate degree in Studio Art at Western University in London, Ontario in 2019 and her MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, UK in 2020. Olivia has exhibited work in Canada and the United Kingdom. Throughout 2020-2022 she co-curated the interdisciplinary project Sleepwalking: Embassy Cultural House stands with Hong Kong, which included the in-person exhibition “To Dissent” at Support Project Space in London, Ontario. Alongside UK-based artist Holly English, she is one-half of the collaborative project The Last Cochineal .

Olivia is also the Coordinating Editor for the Embassy Cultural House (ECH). She recently designed the exhibition catalogue, Pandemic Gardens: Resilience Through Nature, published by the Embassy Cultural House in August 2022. Please visit her website for more information.

Recent work by Olivia

“Ikea Blues,” 2018, installed at ArtLab, London, Ontario

“A Different Mode of Sustenance,” 2019, 4' x 6', oil and acrylic on canvas

“Family Is Forever (?),” 2019, variable dimensions, aluminum bar and section, various metal fixtures, oval chain, and alphabet beads

“Family Is Forever (?),” 2019 – Detail

“There Are Many Doors in the Expanse,” 2018, installed at VSVSVS Studios in Toronto

“There Are Many Doors in the Expanse,” 2018, 6” x 15.5”, magnet, photo print, found notepad, and resin

Remnants and concoction from “Maybe Spring Will Never Come,” 2020, experimental dinner in collaboration with Holly English

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