Olivia Perea

Olivia Perea is a collage and mixed-media artist, living and working in Durango, Colorado. Olivia's undergraduate studio art and art history practice has focused on the intersection of studio art and culture. In May 2025, Olivia spoke at 37th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. Co-presenting alongside Dr. Deanne Grant, Olivia discussed public art's role in cultural visibility in the session section titled, Indigenous Murals As Transformative. 

Passionate about creating accessible and engaging experiences around art and culture, her conceptual and research-based artworks are accompanied by free, corresponding, handmade magazines that detail the research, histories, and technical aspects that go into creating the pieces. 

Her most recent conceptual project is a collage series titled Your Secrets As Exhibition. The series of collages and 50 editions of the corresponding handmade magazine, were displayed in the Fort Lewis College Art and Design Senior Show in April, 2025. Olivia has also exhibited works in the 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Annual Student Juried Show in the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, as well as in the 2023 and 2024 Spring editions of IMAGES Magazine, Fort Lewis College's visual art and poetry publication.