Eileen Olivieri
Eileen Olivieri is an award-winning multidisciplinary 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 film 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), Returning, Fresco Gallery, Bienno, Italy (2024), and is presently the creative producer for the feature film Mink River, now in development.
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 teaches part-time at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the Education Coordinator at CAVU, New Mexico. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
