![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Crystal Fugue." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 20" x 40 ¹⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (50.8 x 102.24 x 5.08 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Olive-Diamond_OD1019_1763157745.jpg)
Olive Diamond makes colorful, narratively open pictures often set within loosely defined historical worlds. She works with both glazed ceramics—stoneware and porcelain—and oil painting, each sharing a dreamy, dissipating quality that aligns with the unpredictable behavior of her materials. While the ceramics are primarily wall-mounted, resembling clay tablets, they are rendered with thin etched lifework and colored custom glazes developed through experimental trials, chance, and chemical reactions. Her oil paintings share similar qualities, building through fracturing lines, layered transparencies, and hazy almost-colorfield grounds.
Thematically, Diamond’s work considers how meaning and knowledge are formed and transmitted across time—through myth, family history, cultural exchange, and technological development. Her visual language draws on a type of untethered storybook logic, moving fluidly between history, folklore, childhood fantasy, and personal experiences. Her work presents the world as perpetually in formation, and emerges through a negotiation between material discovery and narrative exploration.
Olive Diamond (b. 1998, Los Angeles, CA) graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 with a BFA in Painting and Ceramics. Diamond was awarded the 2021 Florence Leif Award and the 2020 Anderson Ranch Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Japanese American Cultural Community Centre, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; Unit London, London, United Kingdom; South Willard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and 1969 Gallery, New York, NY. A forthcoming solo exhibition, opening April 2026, will take place at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles. Diamond lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Girl in the Green World." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Frame 11 ¹⁄₄" x 10" [HxW] (28.57 x 25.4 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Olive-Diamond_OD1026_1765058096.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Light Chase." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Frame 16" x 55" [HxW] (40.64 x 139.69 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Olive-Diamond_OD1025_1765058092.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Steward." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Frame 19 ¹⁄₄" x 20 ¹⁄₄" [HxW] (48.89 x 51.43 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Olive-Diamond_OD1024_1765058103.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Homecoming." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 10 ¹⁄₂" x 15" x 2" [HxWxD] (26.67 x 38.1 x 5.08 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Olive-Diamond_OD1023_1763156921.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "The Violet Hour." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 20 ¹⁄₂" x 15 ³⁄₄" [HxW] (52.07 x 40.01 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olive-Diamond_OD1021_1758753959.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Spolia." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 42" x 49" [HxW] (106.68 x 124.46 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olive-Diamond_OD1012_1758754300.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Hum of a Prayer." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 19" x 24" x 2" [HxWxD] (48.26 x 60.96 x 5.08 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olive-Diamond_OD1013_1758754224.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Lethe’s Bridge." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 15" x 20 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (38.1 x 52.07 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olive-Diamond_OD1022_1758753964.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "The Pleasures of Forgetting." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 48" x 85" [HxW] (121.92 x 215.9 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Olive-Diamond_OD1011_1758753983.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Catch and Release." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 17" x 12" [HxW] (43.18 x 30.48 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1010_1745690817.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "The Longest Way Around is the Shortest Way Home." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 12" x 21" [HxW] (30.48 x 53.34 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Olive-Diamond_OD1003_1763156976.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "The Golden Rule." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 23" [HxW] (35.56 x 58.42 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1002_1745690810.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Sitting in Shadows." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 12 ³⁄₄" [HxW] (53.34 x 32.39 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1007_1745690815.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Oracle." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 11 ¹⁄₂" x 8 ¹⁄₂" x 7 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (29.21 x 21.59 x 19.05 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1005_1745690813.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "Lock and Key." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 19" x 7 ³⁄₄" x 7 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (48.26 x 19.69 x 19.05 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Olive-Diamond_OD1009_1763156971.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "A Forgotten Dance." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14 ¹⁄₄" x 21 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (36.2 x 54.61 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1008_1745690814.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "The Stirring." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 20" x 11 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (50.8 x 29.21 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Olive-Diamond_OD1006_1745690810.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Olive Diamond titled "To Be Sung and Remembered." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 18" x 14" [HxW] (45.72 x 35.56 cm). Its medium is Custom glaze on stoneware.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Olive-Diamond_OD1000_1763156934.jpg)
