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Email: oliviaarratiaphotography@gmail.com

Instagram: @oliviaarratiaart & @oliviaarratia

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Ella es profesora! 👩🏻‍🎨 The spring semester is officially over and with that ends my first year of teaching full time! 🌟 I am incredibly grateful for all the opportunities I received while teaching and learned so much from those I encountered along the way! Peace out and see you Fall 2023 ✌🏼
Thank you to Ursuline Academy of Dallas and Jocelyn Holmes, Visual Arts Department Chair, for the invitation to juror the 2023 Art & Design Exhibition! 🎨 ✨ Students showcased incredible work and I am so honored I was able to experience it! Faculty pictured left to right: Jocelyn Holmes, Leah Schlief-Freese, William Thompson, and Hannah McKee

Artist Statement

Olivia Arratia’s work engages in the social, cultural, and religious aspects of Hispanic culture, and regional aesthetics of her birthplace in Southern California. Olivia seeks to understand and preserve her heritage and her ancestral lineage. She creates photographic prints, photographic book art, video installation, and sculpture showcasing subjects of gentrification, displacement, and art accessibility are manifested in each piece as they are interwoven with memory and identity. Olivia has experimented with providing broader public access to her work by exhibiting in cultural centers and creating ofrendas in public spaces.

In her recent series Mi Corazon No Esta Lejos Del Tuyo, The experience of displacement is familiar due to separation from where she grew up and the people I grew up with. This displacement causes her to treasure-hunt areas that remind her of home. She starts her pursuit of searching for a greater sense of self through location. She then discovers that the idea of home is not just a physical place but names, colors, saints, prayers, and architecture. She realizes that her heart is not far from the ones she loves when she is surrounded by her culture.

Bio

(b.1996, Los Angeles, California) Olivia Arratia is a photographer residing in Dallas, Texas. She received her AA from Brookhaven College and her BFA in Photography and Business from Texas Woman's University. She obtained her MFA from Southern Methodist University and has shown her work is shown in galleries and non-profits in the DFW area. Olivia creates photographic prints, sculptures, and book art. Her work engages in the social, cultural, and religious aspects of Hispanic culture, as well as the material culture and built environment of where she was born and raised in Southern California.