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

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