About Lily Koto Olive
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Education
2010 - 2013
New York Academy of Art
2007 - 2008
School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.
1999 - 2003
NC State University, College of Design
Awards
2014
PILOTENKUECHE Fall Artist Residency
Leipzig, Germany
2014
Queens Art Intervention Grant recipient
Awarded for public art project.
2014
Edelman PR-Your Storied Future Prize Recipient
NYC - prize winner in my category for my painting and story submission.
2014
Altos de Chavon Teaching Residency
Awarded an art teaching residency, in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Taught History of Painting class, with a focus on Contemporary Art.
2013
PILOTENKUECHE Summer Artist Residency
Leipzig, Germany
2011
LCU Foundation Scholarship
awarded during my MFA program in NYC at N.Y.A.A.
1997
Governor’s School of North Carolina – Summer Residency
chosen as a participant to represent my district.
1996
Congressional Art Competition – Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
Awarded in recognition of one of my submitted paintings.
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Biography
I have always have a deep impulse to create art ever since I was a small child. Expressing myself through artwork is for me the best means to communicate my ideas and life to the world. I have sold my artworks internationally, both independently as well as through galleries and museum shows I've been selected to show and exhibit through and with. I enjoyed selling my works from my studio to my collectors for years, however, as I have travelled and lived more and more internationally over the past years (Germany, England, Romania, and Dominican Republic) I have realised it's becoming more and more important to increase my visability and reach my existing and potential buyers all over the world with some support from an existing framework such as Artfinder. I am ready and really excited to participate, as I have loads of new work!! Also, I strongly believe that female artists are missing the exposure and support that our male counterparts are getting even today, and I really hope with a bit more visability to help launch my dreams of being a female painter even further. I have upcoming art exhibits scheduled in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary this Fall 2019 and Spring 2020. I have exhibited my artworks at Sotheby’s, Flowers Gallery in New York, and Flowers Gallery in London, HERE Arts Center, Sloan Fine Arts, RH Gallery, Kleio Projects and ISE Cultural Foundation in NYC, The New Britain Museum of American Art in New Haven, CT, the Dumbo Arts Center, Trestle Gallery and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Marketplace Gallery in Albany, NY, One Mile Gallery in Kingston, NY, Index Art Center in Newark, NJ, Miami Dade College Museum of Art & Design in Miami, FL, Polk State College in Winter Haven, FL, Carrboro Century Center in Carrboro, NC, Kamakura Performing Arts Center in Kanagawa, Japan, Palazzo Flangini in Venice, Italy, The Museum in Leipzig, Germany, Pilotenkueche/Halle 14 in Leipzig, Germany, Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat de Girona in Girona, Spain, ZSenne in Brussels, Belgium and Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej MD_S in Wroclaw, Poland.
