Education
2010 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2002 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1999 Cooper Union, Irwin S. Channin School of Architecture, New York, NY.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2012 Second City, with Firat Erdim, Flash Atolye, Karşıyaka, İzmir, Turkey.
1:1, Happy Collaborationists, Chicago, IL.
Guest Room at the Drake, Private Commission, Chicago, IL.
2010 Olivia Valentine: Inside Out/ Outside In, Chicago, IL.
Pile/Pillar: Firat Erdim and Olivia Valentine, Open House, Chicago, IL.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 FIBERS, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, Georgia.
Cotton: Global Threads, with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Brian, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
2012-11 Love Lace, International Lace Award Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.
2011 Acre Country Fair, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Kite!, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA.
Peregrine Papers, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL.
Local Industry, in collaboration with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Brian, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.
2010 Something’s Not Quite Right Here, Fair Folks & A Goat, New York, NY.
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago IL.
Materials of the City, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL.
20/21, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL.
Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL.
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave, with Anne Wilson and Libby O’Brian, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.
Materiality, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2008 Mama’s Arts, Geborgen Kamers, the Gaidaro Foundation, The Hague, Holland.
The Dinosaur Show, Barometer Gallery, New York.
Awards
2013-12 Fulbright Fellowship, US Student Award, Installation Art, Turkey.
2012 Brandford/Elliot Award for Excellence in Fiber Art.
2011-10 International Lace Award Finalist, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.
2010-08 Incentive Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Institutional Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2008 The World Less Traveled Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Collections
The Whitworth Art Gallery.
Knoxville Museum of Art.
RISD Archive
Also represented in private collections across the United States and Europe.
Residencies
2013-12 Babayan Cultural House, Ibramhampaşa, Turkey.
2012 I-Park, East Haddam, CT.
2011 ACRE, Stuben, WI and Chicago, IL, Stellar Scholarship.
2012-11 Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL, Fellowship.
2010 Ox-Bow Artist Residency.