Olive Ayhens (b. Oakland, CA) received her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to her extensive exhibition history, Ayhens has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Joan Mitchell Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant. Artist residencies include The Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, MacDowell Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Salzburg Kunsterhaus, Yaddo Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Roswell Artist Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2017. The artist lives and works in New York City.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens: Metabolic Metropolis in "The New York Sun."
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens: Metabolic Metropolis in "Manhattan Art Review."
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens's painting, The Waves are Coming, has been included in the group exhibition, Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The exhibition will be on view from November 2023 to mid-January 2024.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent review of Olive Ayhens in New York Magazine.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens has been featured in Issue 128 of Lettre International featuring over fifteen nearly-full-page reproductions.
The gallery is pleased to announce that the Joan Mitchell Foundation has named Olive Ayhens a 2020 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share The New Yorker's recent review of "Olive Ayhens: Urbanites and Ur-Beasts"
Bookstein Projects is pleased to share a recent interview between Etty Yaniv and Olive Ayhens in Art Spiel on occasion of her forthcoming exhibition at the gallery.
Olive Ayhens's "War Endures" Reproduced in Harper's August 2019.
Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce that Olive Ayhens is included in A Radical Voice: 21 Women at the Southampton Arts Center. The exhibition is curated by Janet Goleas.
