Hannah Olive
Education
2022 BS, Art & Design, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2018 Ensign Business College, Salt Lake City, UT (Studied Interior Design)
2013-2016 Utah Valley University, Orem, UT (Studied Costume Design)
Community Art & Interactive Installations
2025 Inseparably Connected, Fall Forum, LDS Earth Stewardship, Provo, Ut
2025 Nevertheless I Went Forth, Gather Conference, Lift + Love Foundation, Provo, UT
2024 Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2022 Disparate Threads, Gallery 402, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2022 Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Poe, Fulton Library, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Exhibitions
(*Solo Shows)
2025 Gather Conference Art Show, Lift + Love Foundation, Provo, UT
2024 Friend of Friends Show, Odd Duck Studio, Provo, UT
2024 Gather Conference Art Show, Lift + Love Foundation, Provo, UT
2024 Face of Utah Sculpture, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City, UT
2024 *Featured Artist Show, Flowerstone Custom Frame & Art Studio, Riverton, UT
2024 Freedom Festival Art Show, Covey Center the Arts, Provo, UT
2024 OUTside: Pride Month at the Leonardo, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 *Sticky Figures: Musings in Masking Tape, American Fork Library, American Fork, UT
2023 I Lexie, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2023 Tiny Sculpture Show, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2023 Rainbow Renaissance, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT
2022 Watchlist, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2022 Utopia, 6th Floor Gallery, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2022 Unfettered, Gallery 402, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2021 SLC Queer, Urban Arts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2021 Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
2021 Annual Student Show, Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Awards & Grants
2025 FY25 Artist Career Advancement Grant, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, UT
2023 Award of Merit for Art & Design, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2022 Excellence and Innovation Initiative Grant, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2022 Research Fair Winner, Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership
Team (SCULPT), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Professional Experience
2024 - Present Gallerist & Events, Flowerstone Custom Frame & Art Studio, Riverton, UT
2022 Project Owner/Student Employee, UVU’s Excellence and Innovation Initiative (e2i), Orem, UT
Volunteer Experience
2025 Art Consultant, Fall Forum, LDS Earth Stewardship, Provo, UT
2025 Art Team, Gather Conference, Lift+Love Foundation, Provo, UT
2023 Timpanogos Arts Foundations Council Member, American Fork, UT
2018 Troop Co-Leader, Girl Scouts of Utah, Sandy, UT
2018 Drop-In Center Team Member, Drop-In Center, Trafficking in Persons
Program Refugee and Immigrant Center, Asian Association of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Corporate Commissions
2022 Brandless Headquarters, Draper, UT. Sponsored by Brandless
Collaborative Projects
2021 Invasive Species Fashion Concept, Capitol Reef National Park, UT, (made in
collaboration with Taryn Birrer and Clayton Mueller)
2019 Swipe Wrong (Online Game), Valentines Jam, itch.io, (made in
collaboration with Nigel Nelson and Ian Liddell)
2017 RPNow (Online Roleplay Application), rpnow.net, (made in collaboration with Nigel
Nelson)
2015 Renaissance Hurricane, UVU’s Face-Off SFX Makeup Challenge, Utah Valley University,
Orem, UT, (made in collaboration with Mikayla Iverson)
Theatre
2016 The Dunwich Horror (Puppets), Provo Castle, Provo, UT
2016 The Winter’s Tale (Costume Design), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2016 9 to 5 (Costume Design Assistant), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2015 You Can’t Take It With You (Costume Crew), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2015 Blood Wedding (Costume Manager), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2014 Caucasian Chalk Circle (Costume Crew), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Bibliography
Print Media
2022 The Journal of Student Leadership Vol 6, Issue 2, Fall 2022, Utah Valley
University, Orem, UT
2022 Utopia: State of Abstraction (Book), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2021 Essais: An Undergraduate Journal for Literary and Cultural Theory and Criticism Vol. 11
No. 1 Spring 2021, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2021 Touchstones Literary Journal, UVU’s Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. 25 Spring 2021,
Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Press
2024 Geoff Wichert, “The Face of Utah Sculpture Celebrates Twenty Years of Creativity.”
15 Bytes, (July 15, 2024).
https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/the-face-of-utah-sculpture-celebrates-twenty-
years-of-creativity/.
2022 Chase Martin, “Disparate Threads Exhibition Explores Queer Identity and Faith.” UVU
Review. October 2022.
https://www.uvureview.com/valley-life/artsculture/disparate-threads-exhibition-explores-q
ueer-identity-and-faith/.
2021 Hannah Sandorf Davis, “Urban Art Gallery’s ‘SLC Queer’ Is a Proud Showcase for Local
Talent.” 15 Bytes, (July 12, 2021).
http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/urban-art-gallerys-slc-queer-is-a-proud-showca
se-for-local-talent/.
Bio
When Hannah Olive was a child, she would often get in trouble for making glorious, artistic messes. As a queer, neurodivergent sculptor and installation artist, she’s kept up the tradition ever since. Her work has appeared in multiple galleries and publications across Utah. Since 2021, Hannah’s passion has been gathering and showcasing queer stories. Recently, she was recognized by the Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT) for her artistic research into the LGBTQIA+ Interfaith community of Utah. She was awarded the Excellence and Innovation Igniter Fund Grant to create an interactive installation celebrating those queer stories of faith. When she's not making art, Hannah can be found collecting bones and talking too much about the plots of video games.
Statement
Loud. Too much. Rabid. Earnest to a fault.
These are the words that have been used to describe my work by teachers, strangers, and friends.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a voracious collector and enthusiastic sharer of stories and data. I cannot sit still with the narratives and questions I find. They spill out of me in a deluge of textures and colors. A medley of fiber, tape, and whatever else is on hand, that I affectionately call “piñata grunge”.
Not very far below this surface, you will find dialectics: the art of holding two differing ideas at once, and knowing that they can both be true. Things you thought were mutually exclusive may overlap more than they seem. How there is power in righteous fury and power in radical love, and that the awfulness in the world can be faced with both humor and empathy.