Education
2020 / Temple University, Tyler School of Art / MFA (Painting)
2017 / University of Puget Sound / BA (Classics + Painting)
Select Exhibitions + Features
2026
New American Paintings South Issue #178
Innovate Grant Spring Cycle Honorable Mention: https://innovateartistgrants.org/olivia-sherman
2025
Visionary Projects, The Directory: visionaryprojects.org/directory
Group Show, ArtWorks RVA, Richmond, VA
2024
Vibrations, Gallery 405 at Black Iris Social Club, Richmond, VA
2022
Tacoma Armory Show, Tacoma, WA
Interconnection, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Who We Are: Portraying Identity, juried by Pauli Ochi of Ochi Projects, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2020
MFA Solo Exhibition, People Trying to Enjoy Things, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Tyler MFA Painting, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY
Certain Ground, curated by Tausif Noor, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Art By the Side of the Road II, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
Print and Paper Show (juried exhibition), 230 Fenway, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Kissing the Wall, SMFA Biannual Exhibition, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (juried by Franklin Evans)
2017
Art By the Side of the Road, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA.
Group Show, Arts Alive Gallery, Summit County Arts Council, Breckenridge, CO
Thesis Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
Annual Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
2016
AHSS Research Grant Exhibition, Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
Solo Exhibition, With a Snake, Wheelock Student Center, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.