Olivia Di Gregorio

Olivia Di Gregorio is an emerging Canadian artist with a mixed background of Chinese and Italian heritage. She recently graduated from OCAD University with a bachelors in illustration and a minor in drawing and painting. During her time at OCAD, she won two awards in the fine arts from Creative Quarterly, as well as cofounded and coordinated the institution's first figurative painting group in 40 years. She taught students the principles of painting, managed group sessions with models, acquired studio space and props, as well as designed the session's light and compositional environment.

In 2019, Di Gregorio collaborated with the University of Toronto on an Art History Exhibition that accompanied a discussion on the relevance of art history in the contemporary world. Her work was featured along with a number of other published painters, and was displayed in the Intaglio Art Journal's online publication. She later exhibited in the Gladstone Hotel's annual show, 'Why The @#&! Do You Paint?', where concepts about painting are focused upon and made the theme of the work. She has also been selected for Artist Project 2020 in the Untapped category and will be exhibiting a collection of her work from this year in late February.

Olivia Di Gregorio visits expressions about femininity, childhood, and melancholy in oil painted subjects, integrating contemporary ideals and identities into a classic mythological framework. Her major inspirations are derived from exploring relationships between personal writings, reflections on inclusive ideologies, the concept of creating worlds in one’s own visual language, and the historical process of painting.