Wendy Olsoff
Wendy Gail Olsoff is an American art curator and art dealer. She is the co-founder and co-owner of P.P.O.W, a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Bio
Olsoff graduated from William Smith College in 1978 with a degree in English and an art history minor.
In 1983, Olsoff co-founded with Penny Pilkington the P.P.O.W contemporary art gallery in Manhattan's East Village. In 1988 the gallery moved to Soho and then to Chelsea in 2002. The gallery features artists central to the 1980s East Village art scene as well as political art, often by women, people of color, and LGBT artists.
In 2012, Olsoff and Pilkington received a Visual AIDS Vanguard Award recognizing their work in the arts and commitment to HIV/AIDS advocacy.
Olsoff is currently on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America. She is a founding charter member of the Feminist Art Council of the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She also served on the Brooklyn Arts Council.
