Olivia Poloni is a Melbourne-based Contemporary and Public Art Curator. She is currently Visual Arts Curator at Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council) and Expert Examiner for the Australian Government’s Office for the Arts under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986. From 2019 - 2023 a consultant curator to T Projects, an arts and culture consultancy that integrating creative programs and public art into complex built environments, and independently curating a number of contemporary art exhibitions and projects.

Her recent independent curatorial projects include Co-Curator of Fertile Ground (with Sarah Bond), Centre for Contemporary Photography (2021) and Horsham Regional Gallery (2022); Co-Curator of Ruth Maddison survey exhibition It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, Centre for Contemporary Photography (2021), Curator of the Image Collective, Blindside (2021), Curator of Raining Embers for the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale and Curator of regional touring exhibition In Her Words (2019 - 2020). She also produced an online platform for visual art outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic titled INTERVAL that launched in November 2020 and supported by The Australian Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria.

From 2017 - 2021 she sat on the City of Moreland Arts Advisory Board. In 2019 she was a Mentor for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and University of Melbourne Access Program. From 2017 – 2019 she was a Project Manager at Asialink Arts and oversaw the visual arts commissions, including a large scale public art commission by Lisa Roet in Beijing. In 2016-17 she was Curator at Craft Victoria and sat on the board of Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF). Previous positions include Co-Director at Sutton Gallery (2015), Assistant Curator for the Dong Gang Photography Festival, South Korea (2014), Project Manager for Asialink Arts at the Setouchi Triennale, Japan (2013), Curatorial Consultant at Galerie Desaga, Germany (2012), and Gallery Manager at Nellie Castan Gallery (2005–10). She was the Australian communications lead on the Sally Smart and Entang Wiharso two-person exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia (2015). 

Olivia edited Fukutake House Asia Art Platform (Asialink Arts Setouchi Triennale 2013) and has been published in art journals including UN Magazine, Artlink, Artist Profile, Art Monthly and the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art. She has written exhibition catalogue essays on Australian artists Janina Green, Alice Wormald, Kate Just, Chris Bond, David Thomas, Alex Martinis Roe, Michelle Hamer and German artist Robert Kraiss, and for institutions such as Centre for Contemporary Photography and Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. 

Olivia holds a Masters of Arts Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.