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Nathaniel Oliver

Nathaniel Oliver (b. 1996, Washington, DC) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City whose work spans painting, sculpture, and soundscapes. Throughout his work, Oliver focuses on the phenomenon of “truth,” exploring questions of veracity, fact-finding and citational practices in the media. Oliver’s interest in the social function of truth is informed by his childhood growing up in Washington, DC: “Growing up in DC was so crucial for my development, I learned a lot vicariously through the nation’s capital,” he writes. “One truth that was instilled in me during my adolescence was the importance of knowing where you come from.” Oliver’s work challenges the facts and the fictions of the world in which we live, drawing from both his own personal upbringing and social norms writ large. Oliver holds a BFA from the Rhode Island Institute of Design. 

His work was exhibited at the Independent Art Fair in 2022 and in a solo exhibition at Housing Gallery, New York, in 2020.

Born 1996, Washington D.C. 

Lives and works in New York 

EDUCATION 

2018

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2024

Karma, New York (forthcoming)

2021

HOUSING Gallery, New York, Armory Show 

Simone Subal Gallery, New York, Visions and Nightmares 

HOUSING Gallery, New York, Steve Cannon Tribute Exhibition 

2020

HOUSING Gallery, New York, Limbo 

HOUSING Gallery, New York, T.A.G. 

2013

Harvest Emerging Art, Washington, DC 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2023

RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, Art and Design from 1900 to Now

2022

Karma, New York, Independent Art Fair

2020

HOUSING Gallery, NADA (Digital) Art Fair, Dune:Doom 

2018

Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, Senior Invitational Exhibition 

Portfolio Café, Providence 

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, Senior Show 

Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, Six White Guys 

Gelman Gallery, Providence, We Thought of You 

2017

The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MPSGS Annual Exhibition 

2016

Framing the Future, Washington D.C. 

The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MPSGS Annual Exhibition 

2015

Framing the Future, Washington D.C. 

The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MPSGS Annual Exhibition 

2014

The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MPSGS Annual Exhibition

DESA Gallery, Washington D.C., Senior Exhibit, 

2013

Framing the Future, Washington, DC 

AWARDS 

2018

Becky Westcott ’98 Memorial Painting Award 

2017

Gamblin Paint Award

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

 

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