Olivia Isabel Rosato
Olivia Isabel Rosato is a visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois, working primarily in oil painting, drawing, and printmaking. She received her BA from UCLA in 2017 and relocated to Chicago in 2020. Her work draws from an archive of personal reference imagery, where atmosphere, light, and spatial tension intersect her subjectivity.
Shaped by a rhythm of entrances and exits existing in constructed space, the forms in her paintings and drawings hover between presence and absence, resisting full representation.
She approaches image-making through reorientation, where time and perception remain contingent rather than fixed. Her work constructs psychological spaces that feel both familiar and unstable, inviting viewers to engage with what is sensed rather than fully seen.
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Too Much, Not Enough I installation view, 2026. Photo by Bob. (Robert Chase Heishman + Robert Salazar).
Observation Point, 2026. Charcoal on paper. Photo by Bob. (Robert Chase Heishman + Robert Salazar).
“Clock” from Rising Action (series), 2026. India Ink and oil on paper. Photo by Bob. (Robert Chase Heishman + Robert Salazar).
Trapdoor, 2026. Oil on YUPO. Photo by Bob. (Robert Chase Heishman + Robert Salazar).
Tear drop, 2026. Oil on YUPO. Photo by Bob. (Robert Chase Heishman + Robert Salazar).