Education
2010 – MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2002 – BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department, Providence, RI.
2001 – Brown University, Philosophy Department, coursework, Providence, RI.
1997-1999 – Cooper Union, Irwin S. Channin School of Architecture, New York, NY.
Exhibitions
2012
ACRE Projects, Happy Collaborationists, Chicago, IL.
Cotton: Global Threads, in collaboration with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Bryan, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
2011
Acre Country Fair, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Party…with an Artist, Hyde Park Art Center at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL.
Love Lace, International Lace Award Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.
Kite!, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA.
Peregrine Papers, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL.
Local Industry, in collaboration with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Bryan, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.
2010
Art Here, Art Now, Storefront Installation, Hyde Park Art and Culture Alliance, Chicago, IL.
Somethings Not Quite Right Here, Fair Folks & A Goat, New York, NY.
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago IL.
Materials of the City, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL.
20/21, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL.
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave, in collaboration with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Bryan, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.
Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL.
Materiality, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Pile/Pillar: Firat Erdim and Olivia Valentine, Open House, Chicago, IL.
2009
Dear Robert…, A. Sortie Inc. Chicago, IL.
Punto in Aria, Casework, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2008
Mama’s Arts, Geborgen Kamers, the Gaidaro Foundation, The Hague, Holland.
Math and Art, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA.
The Dinosaur Show, Barometer Gallery, New York.
2007
Post Cards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery.
Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY.
The Ice Cream Show, Barometer Gallery, New York.
YAS Emerging Artists Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, NY.
1998-2006
Collective Number 9, 94 9th Street Gallery, Brooklyn, 2006.
Square Foot Show, Art Gotham Gallery, New York, 2006.
Annual Gowanus Artists Open Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY, 2005.
Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2002.
*Objects and Obsessions, Degree Project Exhibition, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI, 2002.
The Up and Coming, Collaborative Exhibition Project, Providence, RI, 2002.
End of Year Show, Cooper Union, New York, NY, 1998.
Awards
Visiting Artist, Department of Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fall 2011.
Stellar Scholarship, Acre Residency, 2011.
Finalist, International Lace Award, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, 2010/11.
Incentive Scholarship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008-2010.
Institutional Grant, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008-2010.
The World Less Traveled Grant, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.
Visiting Artist, Sculpture Department, University of Virginia, 2008.
Andrew Mellon Foundation Internship, RISD Museum, 2001.
T. C. Colley Award, RISD Photo Department, 2001.
Integrity Graphics Scholarship Competition Honorable Mention 2001.
Full Tuition Scholarship, Cooper Union 1997-1999.
Aldrich Museum Award for Student Photography 1997.
Bibliography
LOVE LACE, Catalog, 2011.
Surface Design Journal, Summer 2011.
Fiber Arts, Annual Student Showcase, November 2010.
Textile Forum, Lace and Architecture: Olivia Valentine, September 2010.
Mama’s Arts, Catalog, 2008.
Residencies
Acre, 2011.
Ragdale Artist Residency, 2010.
Ox-Bow Artist Residency, 2010.
Lectures
Woven Grounds and Stitches in Air, Virginia Commonwealth University, September 2011.
Woven Grounds and Stitches in the Air, Prairie Avenue Weavers Guild, Hinsdale, IL, 2011.
Artists in Action: Olivia Valentine and Tara Hills, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, February 2010.
Reconstructing the Urban Fabric, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2009.
Punto in Aria/Work until Now, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 2009.
Fetishistic Acts of Domesticity, University of Virginia, April 2008.