Olive Ayhens

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 1998

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Artist-In Residence, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation, Roswell, NM (2014–2015); Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (2014, 1994); Grant Recipient, Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (2013); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2007, 1999); Fellow, Fine Arts, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2006); Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY (2001, 1998); Grant Recipient, Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York, NY (1996); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Website: http://www.oliveayhens.com/about.html

"Critters and the Cathedral," 2019 by Olive Ayhens

Olive Ayhens is an artist who was born in Oakland, California. She received her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to her extensive exhibition history, Ayhens has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Joan Mitchell Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant. Artist residencies include The Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, MacDowell, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Salzburg Kunsterhaus, Yaddo Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Roswell Artist Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016. The artist lives and works in New York City.