According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an organic light emitting display apparatus includes an organic light emitting diode; a driving transistor which supplies a driving current to the organic light emitting diode; and a plurality of switching transistors to transmit a reference voltage and a data voltage to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, respectively. According to the present disclosure, one frame is divided into a refresh period in which a data voltage is written and a hold period in which the data voltage written in the refresh period is held. The refresh period includes an initialization period, a sampling period, a programming period, and an emission period, and the sampling period and the programming period may be separate from each other.