Olivia Isabel Rosato (b. 1995, Los Angeles) is a visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois working primarily in oil painting, drawing, and printmaking. 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.
She received her BA from the UCLA in 2017 and relocated to Chicago in 2020. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2026. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington,DC and published in New American Paintings Issue No. 173.