Eileen Olivieri is an award-winning interdisciplinary/intermedia artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work originates from site-specific, immersive experiences in diverse locations and antiquated spaces across the U.S. and beyond. Growing up in Oregon and witnessing the stark, extractive systems of clearcutting forests, left a lasting imprint on her practice. Eileen’s life-long commitment to transform the subtle and often ignored, into an overt visible form is an essential theme in her work.
Exhibition and screening highlights include: Apple Blossoms, Fluxus performance, Whitney Museum of American Art (1999), Rebelde, producer, MTV3 (2007), Hum • Hover • Dive, Soap Factory, Minneapolis ('05), Ocean Keeper, director, PBS, "Treasures of New York," NYC (2012), Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, associate producer, PBS “American Masters”(2014), and Returning, Fresco Gallery, Bienno, Italy (2024). In 2023, Eileen received a faculty research grant from the American Indian College Fund for her work at the Institute of American Indian Arts and attended an artist residency in Bienno, Italy. In October 2024/2025 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome where she launched a multi-media installation based on her drawings. Other select awards include: The Idea Fund, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, US Embassy Icelandic Exchange, and the New Visions Film Award. Eileen presently teaches part-time at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
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