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EDUCATION
2017 - 2019 UCLA, CA, MFA New Genres
2000 - 2002 National Film and Television School, UK, MA Screen Design
1995 - 1998 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, UK, BFA (First Class)
1994 - 1995 Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK, Foundation Diploma
SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS AND PROJECTS
2024
‘Dopesheet Batman’, solo show at Tiffany’s, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Adam Verdugo
2023
‘A Bear Shits in the Woods’ solo show at Gattopardo, Los Angeles, organized by Alex Nazari
2022
‘2 Bad Mouse’, installation, in collaboration with Pui Tiffany Chow, After Hours, Los Angeles, CA
‘Lowlifes’, Sunset Spectacular and other Hollywood Blvd digital billboards, run by Orange Barrel Media, organized by Diana Nawi in conjunction with Hammer Museum ‘Lifes’ show, Los Angeles, CA
2021
‘CUDDLE PUDDLE’, installation and performance, in collaboration with photographer Ian Byers-Gamber, Riviera Parking, Santa Barbara, CA WEBSITE
‘OBSCENE’, immersive site specific curatorial / installation collaboration created with Shagha Ariannia, including works by Shagha Ariannia, BANK, Brontez Purnell Dance Company, Max Cleary, Anthony Discenza, Rachel Harrison, Stanya Kahn, Tala Madani, Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, John Mole, Olivia Mole, Alfred Riley and Chester Toye, Los Angeles, CA IMAGES
2020
‘0rphan Drift presents Olivia Mole’, Public Access TV video retrospective, Public Records TV, curated by 0rphan Drift, Brooklyn, NY / internet
2017
‘ROGNTUDJUUU!!’, installation, Cloaca Projects, San Francisco, CA WEBSITE IMAGES
‘MUNKEY KING CREON’, installation and performance, JOAN Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA WEBSITE VIDEO PRESS IMAGES
2016
‘Loose-y Part 2: Candy Toilet’, site specific installation, Los Angeles, CA GALLERY NOTES PRESS RELEASE IMAGES VIDEO
‘Up the Buttmunch River’, performative lecture at Reading University, UK, part of lecture series ‘Remote Posthuman’ organized by John Russell VIDEO IMAGES
2015
‘Topos: That’s What She Said’, performative lecture at Chinatown YMCA Pool, SF, CA, part of performance series ‘Heavy Breathing’ curated by Sophia Wang and Lisa Rybovich Cralle WEBSITE VIDEO IMAGES
‘Epilogue’, Installation with performance, The Wattis Institute, SF, CA WEBSITE VIDEO PRESS IMAGES
‘YOGAFLOGOGO’, Installation with performance, Southern Exposure, SF, CA WEBSITE PRESS (ESSAY) PRESS (SFGATE) PRESS (DAILY SERVING) IMAGES
2014
‘Loose-y Part 1: This Shit is Gold’, Installation, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, SF, CA IMAGES VIDEO
‘Loose-y Part 1: This Shit is Gold’, site specific installation presented in a garage/basement, SF, CA IMAGES VIDEO GALLERY NOTES PRESS
1998
‘Rabbitjack’, Installation with performance, Free Gallery, Glasgow, UK
‘Drawings’, Flextech Gallery Space, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024
‘Cabinet of Kaput’, KM Galerie, Berlin, curated by Sarah Szczesny (Dopesheet Batman) WEBSITE
2023
‘Dynasty Handbag’s Weirdo Night’, Zebulon LA, CA, hosted by Jibz Cameron as Dynasty Handbag (Denoument, The Hunted Unicorn Eating Lucky Charms, Bambi Billie Jean, Bambi Armpit Farts) WEBSITE
Film program at 2220 Arts, LA, CA, curated by Aimee Goguen and Suzy Halajian in conjunction with Aimee Goguen exhibition Mountain of the Collapse at JOAN Los Angeles (Flashers Lack, The Hunted Unicorn Eating Lucky Charms, Bambi Billie Jean, Bambi Armpit Farts) WEBSITE
2022
‘Lifes’, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Aram Moshayedi (The Lowlifes) WEBSITE
‘Air Kiss’, Gattopardo, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Alex Nazari (Ain’t It A Breeze) WEBSITE
2021
‘Tech/Know/Future’, Montclair State University Art Galleries, Montclair, NJ, curated by Tom Leeser (Topos Monotypes, Take Back Future Tripping AR) WEBSITE
‘OBSCENE’, immersive site specific curatorial collaboration with Shagha Ariannia, including works by Shagha Ariannia, BANK, Brontez Purnell Dance Company, Max Cleary, Anthony Discenza, Rachel Harrison, Stanya Kahn, Tala Madani, Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, John Mole, Olivia Mole, Alfred Riley and Chester Toye, Los Angeles, CA IMAGES
2020
'Trunk Show’ curated by Jackie Rines for Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA (Tailgetter: The King of the Forest Reads Selections from Fifteen False Propositions against God by Jack Spicer, after Mike Kelley, after Walt Disney, after the Dryad Eurydice) WEBSITE FLYER IMAGES
2019
‘Hoard, Inaugural’, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA curated by Scott Benzel (Bambi Holes) WEBSITE IMAGES VR (VIDEO)
UCLA MFA #4 Thesis Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Bambiss and Unicron) WEBSITE IMAGES VIDEO (BAMBISS&UNICRON) VR (VIDEO - BAMBI HOLES)
CBRET: What Not Speak Easy, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, Performances curated by Marie de Brugerolle (Big, Um, Object) WEBSITE IMAGES VIDEO
2018
‘Vision Valley’, Glendale, CA, curated by The Pit Gallery (Flashers Lack) WEBSITE PRESS VIDEO IMAGES
‘KEIN SCHMERZ, KEIN GEDANKE!’, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany, curated by Justin Lieberman (Flashers Lack, This Shit Is Gold) WEBSITE VIDEO (FLASHERS LACK) VIDEO (THIS SHIT IS GOLD) IMAGES
‘Not All There’, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Emily Mast (MUNKEY KING CREON) WEBSITE
‘Liquid Love’, Gas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Ceci Moss (Dud Ankress) WEBSITE VIDEO PUBLICATION PRESS INSTAGRAM IMAGES
2015
‘First Person Once Removed’, ProArts, Oakland CA, curated by Christina Linden (Bonely You) VIDEO PRINTS IMAGES
2014
‘I’ll Show You Yours If You’ll Show Me Mine - Salon du Mercredi’, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin CA, organised by Alex Cecchetti (Poo Pants Memory Matrix) WEBSITE IMAGES
2013
‘This Will Never Work’, Southern Exposure, SF, CA, open call selected by Corrina Peipon (The Origins of Chess) IMAGES
‘Crest of the Strawberry Moon’,Gospel Farm Flats, Bolinas, CA (Yogic Ectoplasm)
1999
‘We Are All Safe And Well’ - Elephant Lane, London, UK (Mammoth Factory)
1998
‘Sometimes Love just Ain’t Enough’ - Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK (Regarding Atlas)
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2024 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2021 Lower Cavity Residency, Holyoke, Western Massachusetts
2018 Art Department Scholarship, UCLA
2018 Zalec Familian and Lilian Levinson Foundation Award, UCLA
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award Nominee
2015 Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award Nominee
2014 Kala Institute Sustainable Arts Residency Award
PUBLISHED WRITING / PROJECTS
2024 Dear Future - Catalog Essay for Ranu Mukherjee exhibition at 18th Street Arts Center
2023 Good Grief - Exhibition text for Gabriel Madan show The Afterparty (BAIK, Seoul, Korea)
Kokomo and its Many Caves - Exhibition text for Max Cleary show (Winston’s, LA)
Tell-Tale Hearts - Exhibition text for Gabriel Madan show Bad Sisters ( Monti 8 Gallery, Latina, Italy)
Filled With Song - Exhibition text for Sydney Acosta (Kristina Kite Gallery, LA)
What Would the Dead Say - Catalog Essay for artist Sarah Szczesny exhibition at Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne
2022 Lifes - The Hammer Museum ed Aram Moshayedi and Nicholas Barlow (drawing intervention in exhibition catalog)
2019- Co-editor of online performance writing publication riting.org
2018 Loves Labors Glossed - review of Harry Dodge, Works of Love at Joan LA www.x-traonline.org (with Brian Karl)
2018 Response to A Retrospective of Dance Duets by Sophia Wang/Brontez Purnell at 356 Mission https://www.riting.org
2018 Dud Ankress Script in Zine Liquid Love published by Gas Gallery / Ceci Moss
PRESS / CATALOGS
2023 Artillery Magazine Publisher’s Eye - “A Bear Shits in the Woods”
2023 Hyperallergic 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles April 2023 - “A Bear Shits in the Woods”
2023 Art Forum - Must See (editor’s pick) - “A Bear Shits in the Woods”
2023 Contemporary Art Library - “A Bear Shits in the Woods”
2022 Art Forum - Group Think - Alex Kitnick on “Lifes”
2022 Art Forum - Olivia Mole as told to Juliana Halpert - Making Mischief and Mascots for the Hammer Museum’s “Lifes”
2022 Lifes - The Hammer Museum ed Aram Moshayedi and Nicholas Barlow (exhibition catalog)
2023 Contemporary Art Library - “Lifes”
2022 HypeArt - Gattopardo Makes the Immaterial Tangible in "Air Kiss"
2022 Art Forum - Must See (editor’s pick) - “Air Kiss”
2021 Tech / Know / Future / From Slang to Structure - Montclair State University Galleries ed Charlotte Kent (exhibition catalog)
2020 Fucked-up Objects by Marie de Brugerolle, Mousse Magazine Issue 70
2020 Art in the Digital Age - CIIS Public Programs - discussion of “Dud Ankress”
2018 Artillery Mag - Vision Valley Biennial (“Flashers Lack”)
2017 Joan Jonas Is On Our Mind - CCA Wattis Institute ed Lynne Tillman et al
2017 Contemporary Art Library - “Munkey King Creon”
2017 riting.la/post/159584091419/munkey-king-creon-by-olivia-mole
2016 Heavy Breathing 2015 Catalog - Colpa Press
2015 wattis.org/MEDIA/00389.pdf
2015 dailyserving.com/2015/03/yogaflogogo-at-southern-exposure/
2015 soex.org/sites/default/files/SETS_Mole_essay_3.pdf
2015 sfgate.com/performance/article/Olivia-Mole-juxtaposes-material-spiritual-in-6087891.php
2015 stevenwolffinearts.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=161
2014 artpractical.com/review/loose-y-part-i-this-is-gold/
TEACHING
2024 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Intermediate Video and Time Based Art
2024 CalArts - Theater MFA visiting faculty - Interpretive Strategies for Performance (co-taught with Emily Mast)
2024 CalArts - Art and Tech MFA visiting faculty - Studio visits
2023 UCLA - Art Dept visiting faculty - Production: Moving Image and Sound
2023 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Advanced Video and Time Based Art
2023 CalArts - Theater MFA visiting faculty - Interpretive Strategies for Performance (co-taught with Asher Hartman)
2023 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Intermediate Video and Time Based Art
2023 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Studio One
2022 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Intro to Video and Time Based Art
2022 CalArts - Art and Tech MFA visiting faculty - (Virtual) Reality Check, Independent Studies
2021 CalArts - Art and Tech MFA visiting faculty - Studio I, Networked Studio, Integrated Media Project development, Independent Studies
2020 Pepperdine University - Green Screen workshop - visiting teaching artist
2020 UC Riverside - Art Dept visiting faculty - Intro to Video and Time Based Art
2020 UCLA High School Summer Session - Video Art and Experimental Animation
2020 UC Riverside - Green Screen workshop (2 day) - visiting teaching artist
2019 UCLA Art dept TA - Prof Stanya Kahn - Performative Video Histories lecture (1 quarter) - led discussion section
2018 UCLA Art dept TA - Prof Mariah Garnett - Beginning New Genres (1 quarter) - studio class TA
2018 UCLA Art dept TA - Prof Andrew Norman Wilson - Advanced New Genres (1 quarter) - studio class TA
2018 UCLA Art dept TA - Prof Sami Siegelbaum - Modernism lecture (1 quarter) - led discussion section
2018 UCLA Art dept TA - Prof Erkki Huhtamo - Design Culture lecture (1 quarter) - ran class blog and student assignments
2017 Pomona College - Installation workshop (1 week) “Funny old Bone Cave” - visiting teaching artist
PUBLIC TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2022 ‘Riviera Parking - A Chronology of Correspondence’ - Studio for Artistic Research, Dusseldorf, Germany (online talk)
2022 Calarts, Valencia, CA - Visiting Artist Lecture
2022 UCR Arts, Riverside, CA - Who Raised It Up So Many Times? - Panel discussion for Lynne Marsh exhibition
2021 Pieter Performance Space - What Happened? What Didn't? What Remains - online public discussion and workshop with riting.org
SET DESIGN / SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT / PRODUCTION
2019-20 ‘Untitled A$AP Rocky project’ (Nathaniel Mellors / Erkka Nissinen) - stop motion animation set fabricator
2019 ‘Weirdo Night’ (Jibz Cameron and Mariah Garnett) - camera operator and editor
2018 ‘Moonland’ (Warner Brothers Animation Group) - character design and development
2017 ‘Aalto Natives’ (Nathaniel Mellors / Erkka Nissinen) - digital effects, camera operator, assistant director
2013 ‘The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview’ (by Nathaniel Mellors) - effects character makeup design
2012-13 ‘Ourhouse Year Zero’ (by Nathaniel Mellors) - installation design / script and visual development
2009 ‘Trees of LA’ - (by Olivia Mole) Sundance Writers Lab shortlist - screenwriter
2007 ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ (by Wes Anderson) - pre-production visual development
2002-10 DreamWorks Animation -
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (’10) - set design / visual development artist
‘Bee Movie’ (‘07) - set design / visual development artist
‘Flushed Away’ (’06) - set design / visual development artist
‘Shark Tale‘ (’04) - set design / visual development artist
Misc unreleased DreamWorks projects - visual development artist
1999-2002 Freelance set design / art direction including:
‘Ten Minutes Older (2001 directed by Michael Radford) ‘The Exorcist Prequel’ (unreleased directed by John Frankenheimer), ‘Gormenghast’ (1999 BBC)