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Olivia Mossuto

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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

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“Ikea Blues,” 2018, installed at ArtLab, London, Ontario
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“A Different Mode of Sustenance,” 2019, 4' x 6', oil and acrylic on canvas

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

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“There Are Many Doors in the Expanse,” 2018, installed at VSVSVS Studios in Toronto
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“There Are Many Doors in the Expanse,” 2018, 6” x 15.5”, magnet, photo print, found notepad, and resin
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Remnants and concoction from “Maybe Spring Will Never Come,” 2020, experimental dinner in collaboration with Holly English


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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