Olivia Hiester

Olivia Hiester is a painter and printmaker living and working in her native city of Philadelphia, PA. She graduated with a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a recipient of the James J. and Frances M. Maguire Artistic Excellence Scholarship and the Raymond and Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarship. She has attended the Mount Gretna School of Art’s summer intensive program three times and was awarded the Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency in 2023. She holds a Barnes-De Mazia Certificate from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. In 2024, she received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.