Resume/CV

Olivia Shepard
 

Born in Augusta, GA

Lives and Works in Woodbridge, VA

Education

 

2024—MA in Media, Culture, and Technology from University of Virginia (UVA) 
 

2023—BA with Distinction in Studio Art & Media Studies (Double Major) from University of Virginia (UVA) 

 

Exhibitions

 

2023—The Little Museum of Art (Faculty and Staff Edition), Fralin Museum of Fine Arts, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Curated by Lisa Joveck)

 

2023—Playing with Syn-tax, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Curated by Jennifer Marine and Stephanie Polos)

 

2023—UVA Department of Art Thesis Exhibitions 2023, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

 

Awards and Grants

 

2022—Rising 4th Year Award ($1500), J. Sanford Miller Arts Scholars Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

 

2022—Spring 2022 Artist Minigrant ($500), J. Sanford Miller Arts Scholars Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA  

 

2021—Fall 2021 Artist Minigrant ($500), J. Sanford Miller Arts Scholars Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA   

 

2021—Rising 3rd Year Award ($3000), J. Sanford Miller Arts Scholars Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA  

 

Conferences

 

2024—The Mundanity of Girlhood: Pleasure, Play, & the Everyday Symposium, Girlhood Studies Collective, Panel C: The Politics of Doll Play

 

Publications

 

2023—Shepard, Olivia C. “The Problem with Maru from Stardew Valley (2016): Black

Women’s Hair in Visual Media.” Movable Type 8, no. 1 (February 19, 2023): 7–16.