Olisa Corcoran

I’m a Durham, NC-based textile artist & sometimes writer, with a focus on text, self-portraiture & texture. I embroider, sketch and experiment.  

I juggle my artwork with a career in the salt mines of the biotech industry. It is a struggle to maintain both lives. Right now I'm running on fumes.

Latinx. Nuryorican. Feminist. 

For several years I wrote a column,  Inspired to Stitch, on Mr X Stitch, an international website at the forefront of the contemporary embroidery movement. Although I'm taking a break from writing, I'm still interested in the use of social media to unite artists from around the world.

Group Exhibitions:

2018

Stitch Fetish 6 | Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Carrack Community Show | Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

2017

MEZCAL | Hispanic and Latinx Artists  |  VAE Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

Stitch Fetish 5 | Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Carrack Community Show | Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

2016

Stitch Fetish 4 | Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Carrack Community Show | Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

2015
Phone Home Durham | Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
A Common Thread | San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA. (Part of RuStitch, by Aubrey Longley-Cook)
Threads of War | Gallery Two, ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC (Part of In A War, Someone Has to Die, by Hanne Bang)

2014
Queer Threads | Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY. (Video installation as Part of RuStitch, by Aubrey Longley-Cook)

2013
Serving Face | Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA. (Part of RuStitch, by Aubrey Longley-Cook) |