Olivia Perillo (b. 1993, Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American multidisciplinary visual artist and anthropologist of Mexican and Italian descent whose mediums include documentary photography, film, collage, and ancestral archiving. Her stylistic approach to themes of cultural storytelling, regional music, social justice, ancestral healing, and the natural world, primarily between her homelands of South Louisiana and the American Southwest, bridges her diverse experience in presence as a mirror for collective healing work. She colors her photographs and films from a perspective existing in a liminal space between the surreal and the tangible, serving as a portal that transcends time and space with tranquility.

In 2018, she co-founded Honest Art, a women-led production company, with Syd Horn upon making their short film, Migration. The next year, they received support from the CREATELouisiana French Culture Film Grant and the Panavision New Filmmaker Program to make their first feature film, Intention. Olivia has since served as director, producer, cinematographer, editor, colorist, and graphic designer on a variety of projects between documentaries and music videos through 2025.

Olivia’s film work has screened in 13 countries, while Intention screened on TV5Monde’s Voyage hotel channel throughout Francophone countries in December 2020. Her still photography has been published in Paris, Tokyo, and Cairo, and by CHANEL, HarperCollins x Mariner Books, Rolling Stone France, The Marshall Project x The New York Times, Lafayette Travel, Acadiana Profile Magazine, Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine, and Country Roads Magazine. In 2025, her swamp cinematography was screened as the backdrop to Lana Del Rey’s UK + Ireland stadium tour, with a debut at Stagecoach Festival in California.

She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery R (2018, 2019) and at The National Parks Service’s Jean Lafitte Acadian Cultural Center (2019) in Lafayette, Louisiana, along with various group exhibitions in the state between Lafayette, Breaux Bridge, and New Orleans, as well as in San Antonio, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona.

She currently resides in Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

Awards:

2025 Best Louisiana Film, 20th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival - co-directing + editing + coloring + graphic design, Across the Quiet
2023 Louisiana Film Prize - coloring, The Candy Lady
2023 Get Ready Grant from The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
2023 ArtSpark Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority - post-production, Boscoyo Fleaux
2023 ArtSpark Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority - producing, Traitement
2019 Panavision New Filmmaker’s Grant - co-directing + producing, Intention
2019 CREATELouisiana French Culture Film Grant - co-directing + producing, Intention