OLIVIA MADAY
Video Artist
BIO
Olivia Maday is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working in video, sound, and installation. Maday holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Maday's work challenges the historic objectification of the female body, subverting gendered power dynamics and celebrating women's bodies as sites of empowerment, resistance, and pleasure. By employing the dichotomy between seduction and repulsion, she dismantles traditional narratives surrounding femininity and sexuality. Through on-screen performance, Maday asserts her own subjectivity in the film and media landscape, highlighting the dynamic nature inherent in women.
Maday has been supported by grants from Tufts University, including the Montague International Travel Grant, and was awarded the Hamburg Exchange Fellowship, providing her with a five month residency in Hamburg, Germany. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions internationally, including at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea. In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition, Fleisch, at Mission Hill Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, and is scheduled to exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa in Summer 2025. Currently, Maday is the Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow in Curatorial Practice and Media Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and teaches classes in the Digital Media Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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EDUCATION
2024 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts Summa cum laude, Film & Television, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA,
2023 Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, Germany Art School Alliance (ASA) (International Exchange Summer
2023 Semester)
2017 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (Fall 2017 Semester)
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Waking the Witch: Rumination on Feminine Rage, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2024 Pulling Teeth and Jumping Rope, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
Portrait 2024, Group Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2023 Fleisch, Solo Exhibition, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
The Magic Silver Show: The Elena Diane Curris Juried Photography Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Clara M. Eagle Gallery,
Murray, KY (Juror: Frances Jakubek, Former Director of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY)
Art School Alliance Open Studios, Group Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, Germany
Vibrant Matter, Group Exhibition, Weems Center Gallery at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University,
Boston, MA
Season 8, Group Exhibition, Video Sound Archive, Digital Archive
To Whom it May Concern, Group Exhibition, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
7th Portrait, Group Exhibition, Teravarna Art Gallery, Digital Exhibition
Power, Group Exhibition, Artwork Gallery, 3D Digital Exhibition
Film, Video, and Animation Show, Group Exhibition, Weems Center Gallery at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
University, Boston, MA
2022 Video Installation Showcase, Group Exhibition, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
Hot Babes Inside, Group Exhibition, Weems Center Gallery at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University,
Boston, MA
2021 Gaze Experimental Film Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Senior Showcase, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Savannah Theatre, Savannah, GA
2020 4D Design, Moving Image, and Sound, Group Exhibition, SCAD Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA
AWARDS/GRANTS
2024 Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2023 Montague International Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
Hamburg Exchange Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA & University of Fine
Arts (HFBK) Hamburg, Germany
Talent Award, 7th Portrait Art Competition, Teravarna Art Gallery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025 Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (Curatorial Practice
and Media Arts, Spring 2025)
2024 Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (Staged Media for Performance,
Mary Ellen Strom, Spring 2024)
2023 Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (Introduction to Video Art, Mary
Ellen Strom, Fall 2023)
Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA (Storytelling: Radio & Podcast, Riccardo Giacconi, Spring 2023)
2021 Documentary Director and Editor, The White Witch of Savannah, Savannah GA
2019 Production Assisitant, Fin Argus Music Video (Director: Ramón J. Goñi), Savannah, GA