About the Artist
Olivia Arnold is a digital based multidisciplinary artist who explores embodiment, memory, and the emotional resonance of place. Through layered video collage, digital corruption, somatic movement, and site-specific sculptural forms, her work investigates how trauma, digital culture, and environment shape a fractured sense of self while suggesting paths toward grounding and repair.
In 2025, she received an Artistic Advancement Grant from the Bloomington Arts Commission, and has participated in art events such as Bernheim CONNECT and Signal Overload Video Art Festival. In 2024, she received a Performance/Installation Honorable Mention in the New York City IO Film Festival for her piece resilience, and in 2023 she received a Student Research/Creative Fellowship Grant from Indiana University Southeast for her project No Strings Attached. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions and galleries across southern Indiana, was featured in The Horizon news site, and has even been installed as site specific pieces in abandoned buildings and the woods. She received her BFA in 2023, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Art from Indiana University.
Artist Statement
My practice explores how environment, memory, and embodiment shape a fractured sense of self. Through video performance, intentional digital corruption, and layered collage, I examine how trauma and digital culture distort perception while also revealing paths toward repair. Recently, I have been reconnecting my body with the natural world through somatic movement. With a specific interest in the restorative qualities of water, I use instinctive gestures as a form of embodied research and therapeutic ritual.
I work across video, installation, and sculptural forms using fabric, rope, and found materials to create spatial interventions that hold emotional resonance. These forms echo organic curves, tension, and release—mirroring how bodies negotiate survival, vulnerability, and transformation. I’m interested in the affective knowledge of place, and in how landscapes absorb and reflect emotional energy. Returning to nature allows me to create work that bridges internal and external worlds, cultivating spaces for reflection, grounding, and collective care.
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