CV

Education:

2022 

MFA in Sound, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2017

Deep Listening Certificate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2014

Bachelor of Arts, Music (voice), University of Mary Washington

Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Mary Washington

Selected Exhibitions & Performances:

*upcoming

2025

Olivia Block trio, Variations Festival — Nantes, FR*

Olivia Block trio, Rewire Festival — The Hague, NL*

2024

solo performance, Cactus Club — Milwaukee, WI

16-channel sound performance, Freedom From, Freedom To — Elastic Arts

4D Girlz, supporting Angel Bat Dawid — Color Club

solo performance, Orange Noise, The Capsule — Chicago, IL

16-channel sound performance, Chicago Laboratory for Electro Acoustic Theatre

Olivia Block trio, 2200 Arts and Archives — Los Angeles, CA

Olivia Block trio, Indexical—Santa Cruz, CA

Olivia Block trio, The Lab—San Francisco, CA

solo performance, supporting Zelienople, Constellation — Chicago, IL

Paige Naylor + Haruhi Kobayashi on tour, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project

PN + HK on tour, Public Records — Brooklyn, NY

PN + HK on tour, Rhizome — Washington, D.C.

PN + HK on tour, Visible Records — Charlottesville, VA

PN + HK on tour, Cave Valley Kava — Louisville, KY

PN + HK on tour, Kerr Foundation — St. Louis, MO

PN + HK on tour, The California Clipper — Chicago, IL

7.1 sound installation and performance, The Lawn Series — Chicago, IL

sound collab with poet Léon Pradeau, P.O. Box Collective Poetry Series — Chicago, IL

solo performance, Out of Thick Air, Compound Yellow — Chicago, IL

solo performance, LANGWE JART, Elastic Arts

solo performance, No Nation – Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab — Chicago, IL

solo performance, EXP/VOX, Tritriangle — Chicago, IL

live electronics, collab with Ruby Que,

[We Don’t Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do, Onion City Film Festival

Paige Naylor Album Release Show (with Olivia Block & Lula Asplund). Constellation

2023

sound designer, ‘Ok, Let’s Talk About You Instead’,

collab with Maria Plotnikova, Museum Villa Stuck — München, GE

4dGirlz Music Video Release Show, Digital Art Demo Space — Chicago, IL

solo performance, Green Noise. Granite City Art and Design District

PrrPrr & Die Physiker, Comfort Music. Comfort Station — Chicago, IL

soundwalk, Hearing the Horizon at Northerly Island Park — Chicago, IL

soundwalk, Ecovoice Project, Evanston Ecological Center

2022

solo performance, The Wire 40 x ESS Streaming Festival

solo performance, Soft Noise. The Plan — Chicago, IL

solo performance, Elastro Series. Elastic Arts

soundwalk, Hybrid Listenings at West Ridge Nature Preserve — Chicago, IL

Spectre Song film screening, WAVEFORMS, Gene Siskel Film Center — Chicago, IL

sound/light installation, IMPACT Performance Festival, SAIC Galleries

2021

solo performance, The Documentarian Showcase. Chicago Cultural Center

Ghostmail sound installation, Terrain Biennial 2021,  Hyde Park Art Center

Olivia Block Trio, Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea. The Empty Bottle

Shhh sound/performance installation, Zhou B Art Center (Waveforms) — Chicago, IL

Sonant Arboretum 16-channel sound installation, Elastic Arts

soundwalk, Sympathetic Resonance at Columbus Refectory — Chicago, IL

solo performance, Vox Effusis vol. 4. The Quarantine Concerts

voice/electronics, A Brief Lament, collab with Seth Sexton, Mana Contemporary

lighting designer, the bird thinks not of gravity, collab with Llio Zogra, Impact Performance Festival At SAIC

2020

sound designer, Revenant, collab with Anthony Sims, Adds Donna — Chicago, IL

new media performance, Abandoned Practices online, Lumpen Radio

solo performance, The Quarantine Concerts. Experimental Sound Studio

pnqbud (NON) sound/video screening, collab with Ryan Maguire and Jason Robinson, SEAMUS

performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Vox Populi — Philadelphia, PA

performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, D.C. Arts Center

performer & co-producer, The Near Misses opera, Baltimore Theatre Project

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Curation: 

2024

Co-Founder, Chicago Sonic Commons

[We Don’t Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do, Onion City Film Festival — Chicago, IL

Video installation, Elastic Arts Annual Benefit — Chicago, IL

2023

Elastro AV Festival, Elastic Arts — Chicago, IL

2022-

Elastro Series, Elastic Arts — Chicago, IL

2021

WAVEFORMS, Zhou B Art Center — Chicago, IL

MIMA Ad Lib, The Bridge Progressive Arts — online

Archivist for Aural Neighborhoods, Open House Chicago

Co-Founder, Sound Sculptors Union

2019

Arts Fellow, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative

2017-19

Deep Listening Series, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative

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Honors & Awards:

2025

Comfort Station 2025 “Artist to Watch”

2021

Chicago Makers Fund

2020       

Graduate Dean Professional Development Award (SAIC)

2019-22  

Full Merit Scholarship (SAIC)

2014

Mu Phi Epsilon Sterling Achievement Award in Music 

2012-13

Anne F. Hamer Music Scholarship 

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Residencies:

2023

Chop Wood, Carry Water

2021

Terrain Biennial 2021

2020

The Neighbors AIR

2018

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)

Presentations:

2024

Making Multichannel Music, Chicago Laboratory for Electro Acoustic Theater

2022

Graduate Artist Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2019

Visiting Artist, Eric Leonardson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Visiting Artist, Noel Lobley, University of Virginia

Service:

2024

Admissions Panelist, ACRE Residency

2022

Jury Panelist, Ohio Arts Council

2020

Jury Panelist, Seamus Miniatures 2020 Album