Olive Stefanski (they/she) is a queer Jewish visual artist working in Chicago. They have had solo exhibitions at Roman Susan Art Foundation (2021) and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago (2023). Recently, Olive’s studio has been awarded the Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Program grant (2023) and Creative Catalyst Grant (2024) from the Illinois Arts Council. Olive is currently a 2024-2025 fellow for the New Jewish Culture Fellowship and they will be a Digital Weaving Lab Artist-In-Residence at Fiber Praxis Workshop in March of 2025. Their work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe and they have shown in group exhibitions across the United States and Mexico. 

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Their two person exhibition, Hypersurface of the Present, with Jewlya Sturtevant at Roots and Culture will open January 24th, 2025 from 6-9 and will close with on March 1st 2025 with a conversation between the artists at 2 PM. Roots and Culture may be contacted for viewing appointments and the gallery's weekly hours are Friday 4-7 and Saturday 12-6 PM. 

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Olive may be be contacted for studio-related inquiries ( such as (but not limited to): commissions/inquires into collecting work/studio visits/show invitations/artist talk invitations/press inquiries/opportunities for financial sponsorship/grants/opportunities for scholarship ) at olive.stefanski@gmail.com. The studio's instagram is @floatyplace. 

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