ivivaolenick@gmail.com
Brooklyn, NY 11230
347-563-3640
SOLO and 2-PERSON EXHIBITS
2021
Threads. Continuum Fine Art and Photography, Greenwood Lake, NY. Two-person exhibit with Melanie Fischer.
Borders Are Meant to Be Crossed. Individual artist spotlight. Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
2020
States of Emergenc(y)e. Society for Domestic Museology. NY, NY
Embroidered Love Notes. Muriel Guepin Gallery. NY, NY
2019
(Im)Migration Lines. Wyckoff House Museum. Brooklyn, NY
2018
Past and Present. 2-person exhibit. Muriel Guepin Gallery. NY, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITS
2025
We Belong. Arts Gowanus at Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY
BOOKSMART. Art on Paper. via Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Nepo Maybe. Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
Smallish. Gallery Ondo, Seoul, Korea; Gallery G Hiroshima, Japan; Space Unit Plus, South Korea
Fiber of Our Being. Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, Long Branch, NJ
Anyone Anywhere. Williamsburg Library, Brooklyn, NY
Always near and dear to whatever it is I’m thinking of. The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT
2024
House to Sky. Colonels Row windows, Governors Island, NY
Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition. Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Among Friends. Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
New York Art Book Fair. Organized by Printed Matter; Represented by Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Sanctuary. Galerie Shibumi, NY, NY
Sorry for Your Loss. Galerie Shibumi, NY, NY
BOOKSMART, Art on Paper Art Fair. Organized by Center for Book Arts, NY, NY Island Luminaria 2. Flux Factory, Governors Island, NY
2023
Harsh Holiday Bazaar. Harsh Collective, NY, NY Artful Gifting. Muriel Guepin Gallery, NY, NY
Picturing the Constitution. Old Stone House (OSH) & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY Earth Mothering. 180 Franklin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Acid Garden. Charles Moffett Gallery, NY, NY
Cats & Dogs. ABC No Rio Gallery in Exile (Chashama), NY, NY
Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal. OSH & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY Among Friends. Equity Gallery, NY, NY
Thread in Motion. East Village Art View,NY, NY 2021 Altered Grain. Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2020
Americans Looking In. Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Window Shopping. Kastan Art Space, Greenburg, NY
Making a Way. South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Spring Flash. New York Artist Equity Association, NY, NY Reflections. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Utopias. OSH & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Race and Revolution: Still Separate—Still Unequal. Penn State, State College, PA and August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Politics of Place. Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
2018
Freedom of the Presses. Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Race and Revolution: Still Separate—Still Unequal. Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ
For Which It Stands. Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
Opulence. The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Nou La – We Reach! Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn, NY Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism. MODA, Atlanta, GA
2017
Intimate Lines. Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Race & Revolution: Still Separate – Still Unequal. Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Juan Rulfo Cumple Cien/Juan Rulfo Turns 100. AAA3A, Bronx, NY Reverberation, Inauguration Day. Brooklyn Workshop Gallery, Brooklyn
2016
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn,
NY Maximum Craft. Signature Craft, Atlanta, GA
Partners, Parents, Pets: Contemporary Portraiture. The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
TXT: art, language, media. Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, NY, NY
GRANTS
2025
Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant from BAC (Brooklyn Arts Council) for Brooklyn Embroidered Oral History Garden Tours
Local Arts Fund re-grant from NYSCA administered by BAC for Brooklyn Embroidered Oral History Garden Tours
2024
NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for Artist Books for Stitchcraft:ThreadingReproductive Justice, Resilience and Change
2023
Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant from BAC for Stitchcraft
Charlene Victor & Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund from BAC for Study of Women’s Herbal Medicine
Local Arts Support from BAC for EarthMother/MotherEarthin collaboration with ART YARD BKLYN (AYB)
New York State Teaching Artist Mentorship Fellowship, NYC Arts In Education Roundtable (NYCAIER)
2022
Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant from BAC for NaturalDyeing:ColorsforEveryBK Mood
2021
Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant from BAC for BrooklynTextile Farm
NEH Summer Seminar/Institute Fellowship for Harlem’s Education Movements – Changing the Civil Rights Narrative, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL New York, NY
2019
Community Arts Fund Grant from BAC for Plant(n)ation: Brooklyn As Farm
Puffin Foundation Grant for Crowd-SeededTextileFarm
Puffin Foundation West Grant for Crowd-SeededTextileFarm
2018
Community Arts Fund Grant from BAC for (Im)Migration Lines in collaboration with Wyckoff House Museum
2017
Puffin Foundation West Grant for Reap What You Sew
Megina Shlain Textile Award from Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES and FELLOWSHIPS
2025
SU-CASA Artist in Residence, awarded by BAC at Midwood Older Adult Center (OAC), Brooklyn, NY, where I taught fiber crafts and book arts, culminating in a public exhibition
2024
SU-CASA Artist in Residence, awarded by BAC at Midwood Older Adult Center (OAC), Brooklyn, NY, where I taught paper weaving, yarn weaving and beading and one-page book arts to older adults, culminating in public exhibit
2023
SU-CASA Artist in Residence, awarded by BAC at Pete McGuinness OAC, Brooklyn, NY where I led participants in reviving cross-stitch and embroidery skills, culminating in public exhibition
Winter Workspace Artist in Residence, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2022
SU-CASA Artist in Residence, awarded by BAC at Krakus Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY, where participants practiced weaving and embroidery, culminating in a collaborative embroidered map of Poland with folk art motifs from each region, celebrated in a public exhibition
2020
SU-CASA Artist in Residence, awarded by BAC at Brooklyn Chinese-American Center, Brooklyn, NY, where participants revived weaving and embroidery skills
2017–18
(Im)migration Lines Artist in Residence, Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn, NY
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2024
Artist presentation, “What is a book in a post-Roe, post-Trump presidency, post(?)- covid America?” Possible Futures, The Thirtieth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium, Alexander Library at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Artist talk, “Artists’ Books for Stitchcraft: Threading Reproductive Justice, Resilience and Change,” Center for Book Arts, NY, NY. Culmination of my 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist grant, fiscally-sponsored by New York State Council on the Arts
Artist Presentation, “Socially engaged art,” Professional Practices in the Art World undergraduate course, Pratt, Brooklyn, NY, taught by Professor Yasmeen Abdallah
2023
Toured “Earth Mothering” exhibition I co-curated with Meridith McNeal at the Gallery at 180 Franklin for Professional Practices in the Art World undergraduate course, Pratt, Brooklyn, NY, taught by Professor Yasmeen Abdallah
2022
Artist talk and hands-on indigo dyeing demonstration, Professor Miriam Bisceglia’s textile design course and Professor Leslie Nobler’s studio foundations course, William Paterson University Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2019
Visiting artist lecture and embroidery lesson for college interns, invited by Erika Lively, Internship Advisor, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Organized Artist Panel for (Im)migration Lines Artist Residency, Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn, NY with invited guests, Sharela Bonfield and Rachel Jensen
2016
Artist talk for undergraduate students in conjunction with group exhibit, Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, curated by Maribeth Flynn. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Panel with guest artist Cynthia Alberto; Wyckoff House Museum Artist in Residence, Farida Sedoc; and curator, PJ Gubatina Policarpio, Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn, NY
REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS
Swinkels, Dorothé, “Meeslepende combinaties, (Compelling combinations)” Magazine Over Textielkunst, Winter 2023.
“Natural Woman,” OppArt, The Nation, curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 7/26/2023
“Women’s Bodies, Women’s Rights,” OppArt, The Nation curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 4/27/2023.
“Keep your laws off my uterus,” OppArt, The Nation curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 3/23/2023
“Mother Earth,” OppArt, The Nation, curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 3/17/2023
“RIP Repro Rights,” OppArt, The Nation,curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 1/31/2023
“Mourning the Legal Death of Choice,” OppArt,TheNation,curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, 8/16/2022.
Burgay, Andrea (Curator), Cut Me Up Issue 10: Reconnect, Cut Me Up Magazine, 2022.
“American DREAMers,” OppArt, The Nation,3/28/2019, curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper
Davis, Isabelle. “Tracing Patterns: Making Sense of Experience” (2018). Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers. Washington University in St. Louis.
Nartey, Clara. Intimate Lines – Drawing With Thread (Part2).December 27, 2017.
“Incantation for America,” OppArt, The Nation, 10/13/2017, curated by Andrea Arroyo, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper
Socially Engaged Craft Collective. Social Objects. 2017
EDUCATION
AAS Textile/Surface Design, Fashion Institute of Technology
BA Psychology/French Language & Literature, SUNY Binghamton
