OLIVIA KIM
Born in 1979 at Quezon City, Philippines.
At the age of 4, she transferred to Rochester, New York, USA. She attended The School of the Arts middleschool and highschool, experiencing vocal music, musical theatre, dance, printmaking, and sculpture in ceramics and wood.
1997-2001. Graduated cum laude with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art, concentration in ceramic sculpture from The School of Art and Design, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She received Divisional Honors for Ceramic Sculpture.
1999. Received the Clare Katherine Nelson Award for Printmaking and Painting.
2001-2005. Studied under the Sculpture program at The Florence Academy of Art, receiving a diploma for completing three years of study and the fourth year of Specialization.
2002-2003. Drawing Assistant for the Sculpture program at The Florence Academy of Art.
2004. At graduation, received Prize for Best Sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art.
From 1996. Participates in group art exhibitions at Rochester, Alfred and Hornell, New York and Florence, Frassinoro and Sassuolo, Italy, and Brackenstown, Ireland.
Olivia accepts private and public commissions for portraits and portrait busts, and projects of sculptural or decorative nature.
She works with diverse materials in sculpture and two-dimensional art such as bronze, terracotta, wood, plaster, pencil, watercolour, monoprint, and mural painting.
Presently Olivia is working on sculptures that capture the dynamic of the human body in motion.