Olivia Mossuto

Olivia Mossuto is an emerging artist, curator, and writer based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her practice engages painting, sculpture, and installation as a way to conceptualize affective and intimate encounters with beings, images, and objects. Her work interrogates how our memories function and what remains when memory fails. In more oblique ways, these ideas coalesce with topics of kitsch, craft, grief, and nature.

Olivia has exhibited work in London, UK (Buster Mantis, Cookhouse Gallery), London, Ontario, Canada (Good Sport, Satellite Project Space), and Toronto, Canada (VSVSVS Project Space, Remote Gallery). She is currently completing her MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art Design in London, UK, and is one-half of The Last Cochineal - a collective and transtemporal supper club organized in tandem with UK-based artist Holly English. She completed her BFA with Honours Specialization in Studio Art at Western University in London, Ontario.

Olivia is also a contributing editor for the Embassy Cultural House and participated in the ECH's first virtual exhibit Hiding in Plain Sight. 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 of "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, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,   JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

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. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. 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.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.