Olivia Anne Smith is a former artist and writer turned gallerist who aims to build artist careers through dynamic curation, storytelling, sales strategy, compelling marketing and institutional placement. Her core values include creativity, integrity, and leadership. Smith was feature in the Financial Times article, "New York gallerist Olivia Smith explains how galleries are adapting to the new normal" in 2020. 

Smith is currently the co-founder and director of Magenta Plains, a contemporary art gallery founded in March 2016 and located in the Lower East Side of New York City. One of the core missions at the gallery is to bring greater attention to significant art and artists regardless of age or career and to present context and meaning for the development of new ideas as well as to preserve older generation artists' work. Smith has organized solo exhibitions with Alex Kwartler, Anne Libby, Barbara Ess, Bill Saylor, Danica Lundy, Don Dudley, Ebecho Muslimova, Georg Herold, Jennifer Bolande, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Joshua Abelow, Lillian Schwartz, Linnea Kniaz, Liza Lacroix, Martha Diamond, Melissa Brown, Nathaniel Robinson, Nikholis Planck, Peter Nagy, Peter Scott, Rachel Rossin, Sascha Braunig, Tiril Hasselknippe, William Wegman, and Zach Bruder. Exhibitions at Magenta Plains have been critically reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, T Magazine, Artforum, Art In America, Artsy, Artnet, Artnews, The Art Newspaper, The Brooklyn Rail, The Canvas, Cultured, Frieze, Forbes, and more.

Born in Dallas, Texas, Smith received her BFA in 2011 from SMU Meadows School of the Arts in Studio Art, Art History, and English, with a concentration in Poetry. After concluding an internship at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, she moved to New York City in 2012. Her interest in conceptual and socially-engaged art led to internships at Artists Space and Creative Time. From 2013 - 2016, Smith acted as the Director of Exhibition A, where she worked in collaboration with over two hundred and fifty artists to produce and distribute museum-quality contemporary art editions. You can follow her at @ashoonk on Instagram and on LinkedIn.