About
Olivia Saporito (b. 1998) lives and works in New York, NY and Providence, Rhode Island. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Olivia Saporito creates sculptures that intend to give the viewer an antiquated viewing experience - one that explores the capacity to accept the operation of seeing. Saporito is invested in processing the intersection of object, archive, apparatus and image through re-worked found object assemblage, moldmaking, steel, and wood. Saporito intends to create her own parameters within structures, to emphasize that image consumption can have acontrolled environment that affects the experience of the viewer. Structure is integral to the viewing process, and the interaction between the image and the viewer is always in flux. There will always be variables that influence the experience of the viewer, but always within the boundaries set by the structure.
Education
Bennington College | BA | 2016-2020
Rhode Island School of Design | MFA | 2025 - 2027 (expected)
Selected Exhibitions
I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK | Aunty’s House Studio | Providence, RI | 2026
As if seen before | Accordion Studios | Providence, RI | 2026
Where Nothing Has Ever Happened | Gelman Gallery at the RISD Museum | Providence, RI | 2026
White Columns Artist Registry | White Columns Online | 2024 - Present
$99 Exhibition: Cabinet Of | Vox Populi Gallery | Philadephia, PA | 2024
Collective Affinities | Usdan Gallery | Bennington, VT | 2024
Vox XIX | Vox Populi Gallery | Philadephia, PA | 2024
Breaking Ground | 3rd Eye Gallery | Hoosick Falls, NY | 2024
Escape Clause | Pamela Salisbury Gallery | Hudson, NY | 2020
A Hole to Climb Into | Usdan Gallery | Bennington, VT | 2020
Bennington/Williams Student Exhibition | Cynthia Reeves Gallery at Mass MoCA | 2020
The Eye Show | Kunsthaus Kule Gallery | Berlin, Germany | 2019
Under your nose, in front of your eyes | Tête Gallery | Berlin, Germany | 2019
Sounding Out | Bennington Museum | Bennington, VT | 2018
Press
Impulse Magazine | A Low-Volume Declaration: Becoming Cyborg as Ethics | 2026
Tussle Magazine | As if Seen Before: On the Things that were Never Fully Forgotten | 2026
Tussle Magazine | I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK | 2026
Teaching
Rhode Island School of Design | Teaching Assistant, Sculpture Department | Providence, RI | 2025 - Present
Bennington College | Technical Instructor in Sculpture | Bennington, VT | 2023-2025
Contact
liv.saporito@gmail.com