About Olive

Informed by real oral histories from her family and imagined versions that expand on these narratives, Olive Diamond’s work considers a wide-lens view of migration and movement through landscape, tableau, and portraiture. She delves into these tales of displacement and passage to explore profound depths of human experience—love and loss, fate and coincidence. Diamond places her subjects in abstract, almost hallucinatory landscapes, exploring ever resonant questions about who is remembered, what traditions are passed on, and where is home? She looks to the past to gain perspective and wisdom for how to move forward along in her journey through the present. Working intuitively with color, mixing her own glazes, the works retain an aura of chance and mystery; highly seductive they are born through an unfolding process of discovery and reaction.

Olive Diamond (b. 1998) graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 with a BFA in Painting and Ceramics. Diamond was awarded the 2021 Florence Leif Award and the 2020 Anderson Ranch Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Japanese American Cultural Community Centre, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; Unit London, London, United Kingdom; South Willard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and 1969 Gallery, New York, NY. Diamond lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.