2026

The American Scholar, “Karyn Olivier: The mutability of materials,” Noelani Kirschner, August 24

Milwaukee Magazine, “Milwaukee Unveils a New Sculpture Commemorating Vel R. Phillips,” August 24 

620WTMJ, “New public art installation honoring Vel R. Phillips unveiled in downtown Milwaukee,” Elizabeth Lintonen, August 22 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “New Milwaukeee memorial honors civil rights leader Vel R. Phillips,” Anya Sesay, August 21

WISN, “Internationally recognized artist unveils Vel R. Phillips memorial in downtown Milwaukee,” August 21

CBS 58 Newsroom, “New downtown Milwaukee memorial honors life of civil rights leader Vel R. Phillips,” August 21

OnMilwaukee, “City will unveil Karyn Olivier’s Vel R. Phillips,” Bobby Tanzilo, August 17

ArtAfrica, “Karyn Olivier: The Weight of What Remains,” Interview with Brandon Bell-Roberts, August 5

AXIOS Detroit, “Frame Work: It’s summer at Detroit’s contemporary art museum,” Annalise Frank, July 10

The Philadelphia Inquirer, “See it, hear it, feel it: All the Philly art we loved this week,” Rosa Cartagena, Elizabeth Wellington, Peter Dobrin, Morgan Ritter, June 20

City of Philadelphia, “Philly250: Stenton (built 1720s),” Bruce Bohri, May 27

The Philadelphia Citizen, “The Semiquincentennial of Dinah’s Liberation,” Dr. James Peterson, April 27

2025

ARTnews, “Karyn Olivier’s Elusive Art Bears Witness to Hidden Histories”, Betsy Huete, April 2

WISN 12 News, “Meet the artist behind a memorial for a Milwaukee trailblazer”, February 14

Billy Penn at WHYY, “Meet the 4 Philly artists who received the United States Artists Fellowship award”, Natalia Sanchez Loayza, February 7

2024

OnMilwaukee, “City selects Karyn Olivier work for installation at Vel R. Phillips Plaza”, Bobby Tanzilo, October 7

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, “Envisioning The Past”, Jared Brey, August 8

The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Five artists at this year’s Whitney Biennial have very close Philly ties”, Bedatri D. Choudhury, August 2

ArtNexus, “2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing”, Raúl Zamudio, June 13

The Philadelphia Inquirer, “At long last, the ‘Dinah’ memorial will be unveiled in Philadelphia’s Logan neighborhood”, Valerie Russ, April 17

OCULA, “Who to See at Whitney Biennial 2024”, Phoebe Bradford, March 14

ARTnews, “A Blazing, Brilliant Whitney Biennial Heralds a New Kind of Body Art”, Alex Greenberger, March 13

Hyperallergic, “First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial”,  Hrag Vartanian, Valentina Di Liscia and Natalie Haddad, March 13

The New York Times, “Whitney Biennial Names Its ‘Dissonant Chorus” of Artists to Probe Turbulent Times”, Siddhartha Mitter, January 25

2023

WNYC All Of It with Alison Stewart, “Artist Karyn Olivier: How A Home Is Made”, July 11

2022

The New York Times, “Art Tells New Jersey Stories at Newark’s New Terminal A”, Sheets, Hilarie M. November 14

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, “Inspiration Unearthed: Artist Karyn Olivier ’89 digs into history”, Chris Quirk, May-June issue

Cultured Magazine, “At the Parrish Art Museum, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Curate a Group Show That Breaks Through the Noise”, Hannah Black, June 30

Boston Globe, “Gorgeous trash and radical recycling at ICA’s Watershed ‘Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms’” is a group exhibition exploring themes of work and waste”, Murray Whyte, May 26

WBUR, “At the ICA Watershed, found objects are poetic and political”, May 26

2021

The New Yorker, “When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?”, Jill Lepore, October 4th

BOMB Magazine, “Karyn Olivier by Michelle Lopez”, Michelle Lopez, April 23

Hyperallergic, “Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2021”, July 13

WURD Radio, “Radio Courtroom” Host: Michael Coard, April 11

2020

The Washington Post, “Removing an offensive mural from the University of Kentucky isn’t ‘racial justice’” Opinion by Karyn Olivier, July 6 

The New York Times, “Students’ Calls to Remove a Mural Were Answered. Now Comes a Lawsuit”, Julia Jacobs, July 6 

ArtForum, “Karyn Olivier” McKee, C.C. May/June issue

Hyperallergic, “Karyn Olivier Subverts the Formal Seriousness of Monuments”, Cardwell, Erica, May 6

Atlas Obscura, “Philadelphia Will Finally Memorialize an Enslaved Woman Freed in 1776”, Chernick, Karen, April 30

Thomson Reuters Foundation NEWS, “As the men of stone fall, who should rise up and take their place?” Nellie Peyton, July 2 

Lexington Herald Ledger, “Here’s how UK could end the mural debate, stop a costly lawsuit and improve higher education” Blackford, Linda, July 27 

Whitewall, “Karyn Olivier Questions Monuments, Memory, and Absence”, Katy Donoghue, Summer issue

Landscape Architecture Magazine, “A Monumental Task”, Jared Brey, Dec 30

The Art Newspaper, “Murals that ‘whitewash’ American history come under fire” by Helen Stoilas July 10  

Union of Concerned Scientists Blog, “U.S. Universities Must Stop Honoring Racist Scientists of the Past”, by Adam Markham, July 14th

CBC Radio, NPR station, “As It Happens” Host: Nil Koksal, July 7

Hypebeast, “University of Kentucky Sued Over Plans to Remove Mural Depicting Slavery. A Black artist’s work that accompanies the original piece also faces removal”, Leung ,Gabrielle, July 7 

Artblog, “Of monumental proportions, Karyn Olivier’s ‘Everything That’s Alive Moves’”, Smith, Alex, March 23

The Architect’s Newspaper, “Solo exhibition at ICA Philadelphia explores our link to monuments”, Simmons, Shawn, March 2

Philadelphia Inquirer, “Art and monuments: At ICA, two Philly sculptors grapple with who gets celebrated”, Hine, Thomas, Feb 16

Broad Street Review, “Moving Monuments”, Day, Gary Feb 16

630 KHOW Talk radio, “The Ross Kaminsky Show”, July 9