Wendy Olsoff
| Wendy Olsoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | William Smith College |
| 💼 Occupation | art curator, art dealer co-owner of P.P.O.W Gallery |
Wendy Gail Olsoff is an American art curator and art dealer. She is the co-founder and co-owner of P.P.O.W, a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Bio[edit]
Olsoff graduated from William Smith College in 1978 with a degree in English and an art history minor.[1][2]
In 1983, Olsoff co-founded with Penny Pilkington the P.P.O.W contemporary art gallery in Manhattan's East Village.[3] In 1988 the gallery moved to Soho and then to Chelsea in 2002.[4] The gallery features artists central to the 1980s East Village art scene as well as political art, often by women, people of color, and LGBT artists.[3]
In 2012, Olsoff and Pilkington received a Visual AIDS Vanguard Award recognizing their work in the arts and commitment to HIV/AIDS advocacy.[1][5]
Olsoff is currently on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America.[6] She is a founding charter member of the Feminist Art Council of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She also served on the Brooklyn Arts Council (BRIC).[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Filling a Blank Canvas". Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
- ↑ "Co-Founders of P.P.O.W. Gallery Dish to Triple Canopy". New York Observer. March 26, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "P.P.O.W defies tough odds for mid-sized galleries". The Art Newspaper. December 6, 2017.
- ↑ "P.P.O.W. Will Expand in September, Adding Sixth-Floor Project Space". ARTnews. July 21, 2016.
- ↑ "VAVA honoring: Frank Jump, Sean Strub, Wendy Olsoff & Penny Pilkington". Visual AIDS.
- ↑ "Board of Directors/Administration". Art Dealers Association of America.
- ↑ "Beyond Representation: Gender Equity in the Gallery System". Harvard University.
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