Morgan Ogilvie

Morgan Ogilvie (MFA CalArts 2020) lives and works in Tennessee. She holds a BA in Psychology from Kenyon College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2023). Ogilvie paints “unreliable” female narrators drawn from Western iconography, cultural mythologies, and film, using wet-into-wet oil techniques to examine narrative slippage, psychological tension, and the construction of femininity. Series such as Obstinate Toy Soldiers and works including Lady Liberty combine talismanic portraits of girls in Halloween costumes with reimagined cultural logos and icons, highlighting how myths begin to consume their own ideals. Her work has been featured in Artforum.com (MFA Spotlight), The Vassar Review, Hyperallergic, and regional publications, and has been exhibited at the Frist Art Museum, Zeitgeist Gallery, Oz Arts Nashville, Imagine Entertainment (Los Angeles), and in the group exhibition In Bloom at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel (2025). She is currently serving on the CalArts Alumni Council.