Olivia Kays
Olivia Kays is a mixed media painter who portrays our women’s history in a layered format with the use of many materials to highlight and expose the inequities, missed opportunities, and the unequal distribution of power. Including media from the 1940’s to 1960’s in many of her paintings of mixed media works, she highlights significant transformations that have been overturned over the last 85 years and presents the spectrum of oppression while also illustrating women as sex symbols. She is continuing her schooling and getting her Master of Fine Arts at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting. Her work is currently spread throughout Indiana for permanent displays for art work/installations and shows/exhibitions.
Education
MFA 2025-Current. LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
BFA 2022-2025. Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University
Recent Exhibitions
2025 - Current
Solo Wall Installation with Ongoing Artwork Display, The Lobby by Greyhouse Coffee, Lafayette, Indiana.
(Work displayed throughout the coffee shop with dedicated wall in the dining room)
Featured Artist, Solo Wall Installation, The Eleventh House Coffee, Lafayette, Indiana.
2023 - Current
Just 13 Pounds Away From Love (Solo Display), Art Office on Third Floor of the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Yue-Kong Pao Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
2025
National Society of Arts & Letters Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition 2025, Free In My Heart! (Featured Artwork), FAR Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana. (Featured on promotional flyers)
Purdue Undergraduate Exhibition - 2025, You’ll Never Be More Than Just A Woman, (Awarded First Place In Painting), All I’ve Become, Robert L. Ringel Galley, Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
2024
Purdue Juried Photography Exhibition - 2024, A Collaboration, You’ll Never Be More Than Just A Woman, All I’ve Become, Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery, Pao Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Emptiness- 2024 (3rd Annual Exhibition and Promotion,) Biafarin, International Online Exhibition.
Anti-War 2024 (3rd Annual Exhibition and Promotion,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
People - 2024 (2nd annual Exhibition and Publication,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
Existence: Birth, Life, Death - 2024 (Annual Juried Exhibition, Promotion, Sales,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
Boundless - 2024 (Annual Juried Exhibition, Promotion, Sales,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
True Beauty - 2024 (3rd Annual Exhibition, Promotion, Sales,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
Still Life - 2024 (2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Publication, Sales,) Biafarian, International Online Exhibition.
2023
Indianapolis Art Center College Gallery Invitational, Tuesday, BPD, Schizophrenia, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
HMVC Gallery [Unveiling The Layers,] Displayed in New York on Screens in Times Square, Intentional Online Exhibition.