Janet Ollevou was born in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Raised in Australia on Cammeraygal land, she lives and works in Sydney on Wangal and Gadigal land.
A graduate of both Sydney College of the Arts (Visual Arts) and University of Sydney (Art History and Theory) Janet Ollevou is an independent artist, writer, and curator. Her work in museum and gallery art collection management has continuously informed her creative practice, which often touches on the afterlives of objects in a digital world.
Ollevou’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions since the 1990s, including Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Persona Cognita, Museum of Modern Art at Heide; Otok/Island, Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia; The World Over (Under Capricorn II), Wellington City Gallery and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Multiplication, Monash University Gallery. In 1996 she was International Artist in Residence at the Auckland School of Art and held a major solo exhibition at the ASA Gallery, Auckland.