Olivia Guterson (b. 1990, Gallup, NM) is a Detroit-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and sculpture to explore personal and collective narratives with a curiosity around adaptation, migration, liberation, and cultural hybridization. Primarily through black ink, her paintings grapple with the possible lived experiences of her Jewish and African ancestors while referencing their known spiritual and survival strategies. Guterson’s work relies heavily on iteration and repetition, a sort of remixing and call-and-response. It is through these communication technologies that a conversation becomes embedded within the work in which the work simultaneously questions and answers itself and in turn becomes an underlying algorithmic structure of commands, instructions, and ultimately patterns. The obsessive intricacy of her mark-making, underscored by the fractured grids and overall geometric compositions, result in paintings that feel both in time and beyond time and seek to uncover new vantage points of “historical facts” that center the tension of cultural collisions and their lasting impact. Currently pursuing her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she is a resident artist at McArthur Binion’s Modern Ancient Brown;  an alum of Sibyls Shrine residency; a recipient of Playground Detroit’s 2022 Emerging Artist Fellowship; and a founding member of ArtMamas Alliance. Her work has been shown at the Arab American National Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Jewish Artist Salon, and more.