DEMETRIUS OLIVER
Born 1975, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2004
2004
1998
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
University of Pennsylvania M.F.A
Rhode Island School of Design B.F.A
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2006
Canicular, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
Azimuth, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Orrery, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Penumbra, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Jupiter, High Line Public Art project, New York, NY
Albedo, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Mare, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Sidereal, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Observatory, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Firmament, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Error! Contact not defined., Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Perspective 153/ Compass, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Extracts, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Demetrius Oliver, P.S.1 MoMa project space solo exhibition, P.S.1 MoMa, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton, NY; curated by Ian Berry
Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
In Context, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
Sculpted, Etched and Cut: Metal Works from the Permament Collection, Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York, NY
Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Mequitta Ahuja, Demetrius Oliver, Dawit L. Petros, and Xaviera Simmons, Clifford Change,
New York, NY; curated by Jacob Robichaux
Cantilever, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Harsh Terrain. Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Collected Works, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Gravity, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA; curated by Marisa Sanchèz
Your Gold Teeth II, Mariane Boesky, New York, NY; curated by Todd Levin
1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Zero Zone, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, NY; curated by David Hunt
Houston Collects: African American Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Black Is Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; traveling to
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI and H & R Block Artspace
Kansas City, MO (2008-2009)
The Morton Collection: Selected Works, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama,
Birmingham, AL
Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Blur: Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan, Error! Contact not defined., Arndt & Partner, Berlin,
Germany
Making Do 2, Green Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Midnight’s Daydream, Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Life is But a Dream: Contemporary Figurative Photography, Space 301, Mobile, AL
Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot Perry Collection, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
World View, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Artadia Reprised, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2006
2005
2004
Crossing the Line: African American Art in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr.
Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
Represent: Selections from The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York State Museum,
Albany, NY
Black Alphabet – Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of
Art, Warsaw, Poland
Now!, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Impossible Exchange, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Leg, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Core Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Bebe Le Strange, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Core Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Round 21, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
RESIDENCIES
2009
2008
2006/07
2004/06
2004/05
Light Works
Steep Rock Residency
AIR program / Studio Museum in Harlem
Core Program/ Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Artist in Residence/ Project Row Houses
AWARDS
2012
2007
PEW Charitable Trust, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grant
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
Britt, Douglas. “Azimuth,” Art Ltd, May/June 2012.
Barliant, Claire. “Photography Object Manque,” Art in America, March 2012.
Paper Monument. “Draw It With Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment,” 2012: 33.
2011
Baker, R.C. “Turpentine Jukebox,” Village Voice, Jul. 20-26, 2011: 27.
Contact Sheet No. 160, Penumbra. Essay by Mary Goodwin, Light Work Syracuse, NY, 2011.
Lori Salmon. “Nature’s Transcendent Image,” IRAAA, vol. 23 no. 3, 2011: 19-23.
2010
Contact Sheet No. 157, LightWork Annual. Essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker, 2010: 4-9.
Baker, R.C. “The Best Art of 2010,” Village Voice. December 29, 2010: 21.
“Stargazing,” The New Yorker. September 20, 2010: 42.
Hulme, Emily. “Heavens on the High Line,” AM New York. September 10-12, 2010: 24.
Friedman, Yael. “Stargazing on the Highline,” More Intelligent Life, blog.
Mack, Joshua. “Error! Contact not defined.: Jupiter,” Art Review. Posted September 17, 2010.
2009
Mueller, Kurt. “Firmament,” Art Lies. No.64, Winter 2009: 68-73.
Graves, Jen. “Currently Hanging: Gravity at Cornish,” The Stranger. December 2, 2009.
Brown, Becky. “Your Gold Teeth II,” Brooklyn Rail. September 2009.
Smith, Roberta. “A Beating Heart of Social Import,” New York Times. December 10, 2009: C29 & C32.
Thorson, Alice. “ Provocative ‘Black is, Black Ain’t probes issue of race,” Kansas City Star. July 4, 2009
Knowles, Carol. “Four by Four,” Memphis Flyer. March 26, 2009.
Doran, Anne. “Your Gold Teeth," Time Out New York. Issue 722, July 30- August 5, 2009.
Smith, Roberta. “Your Gold Teeth II,” New York Times. July 2, 2009.
Carlin, T.J. “Studio Visit: Error! Contact not defined.,” Time Out New York. Issue 703, March 19-25, 2009:
56-57.
2008
Copeland, Huey. “The Blackness of Blackness,” Artforum. October 2008: 151-154.
Cotter, Holland. “Museum and Galleries Listings: Last Chance: Error! Contact not defined.,” The New
York Times. September 26, 2008: E25.
“Zero Zone,” New Yorker. August 11 & 18, 2008: 14.
Jack Corragio. “Steep Rock Arts Program,” Litchfield County Times. August 2, 2008: 10.
Cotter, Holland. “Museum and Galleries Listings: Last Chance: Demetrius Oliver,” The New York Times.
September 26, 2008: E25.
Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Demetrius Oliver, Observatory," The New York Times. September 18,
2008: E31.
Carlin, T.J. “Demetrius Oliver, Observatory," Time Out New York. September 19-25, 2008: 97 .
Baker, R.C. "Best in Show: Demetrius Oliver's 'Observatory' at D'Amelio Terras," The Village Voice.
September 17, 2008: 42.
2007
“Core: Artists and Critics in Residence” catalog, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2008.
Ewing, John, “Error! Contact not defined.,” ArtLies. Winter Edition 2008: 114.
Richard, Frances. “Midnight’s Daydream: Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan II, Error! Contact not defined.,”
Artforum. November 2007: 371.
Roberts, Frank Leon. “Nina, Meet Jesus,” Village Voice. September 12-18, 2007: 58.
Schwendener, Martha. “Three Contemporaries, Each with a Different Way to View the Past,” New York
Times. August 11, 2007: B13.
Maine, Stephen. “The Dark Side of the Brain,” New York Sun. August 23, 2007: 15 & 17.
Gordon, Amandas. “Out & About,” New York Sun. July 20, 2007.
Beckwith, Naomi. “Midnight’s Daydream” catalog essay, Studio Museum in Harlem. 2007: 10-12.
Stillman, Nick. “Introducing Error! Contact not defined.,” Modern Painters. July-August, 2007: 48- 50
Terranova, Charissa. “View from the artists,” Dallas Morning News. June 21, 2007.
Bishop, Philip E. “Exhibit Explores, History, Hipness,” Orlando Sentinel. April 19, 2007.
Sirmans, Franklin. “Crossing the Line: African American Art in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence
Otis Jr. Collection” catalog essay. Rollins College Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2007.
McClintock, Dinah. “Matt Evans & Demetrius Oliver,” Art Papers. January/February 2007: 49.
2006
Barber, Diane. “Artadia at Diverseworks…Reprised” catalog essay. Diverseworks, Artadia Houston 2006.
Brewinski, Maria. “Black Alphabet – Contexts of Contemporary African American Art” catalog essay,
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, 2006.
Horodner, Stuart. “Error! Contact not defined.” brochure essay, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2006.
Cassel-Oliver, Valerie,. “Compass” catalog essay, Error! Contact not defined. Pespective 153,
Contemporary Arts Museum, 2006.
Moore, Katie. “Gibbes Museum Gets Funky,” George Street Observer. October 28, 2006.
Smith, Nick. “This Is Our Youth,” Charleston City Paper. November 8, 2006.
Sharbaugh, Patrick. “Now! And Then,” Charleston City Paper. October 11, 2006.
Lim, Joseph. “Demetrius Oliver: Extracts,” ArtLies. Spring 2006: 117.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Error! Contact not defined., Extracts,” Houston Press. March 9-15, 2006: 47.
Molon, Dominic. “Error! Contact not defined.” catalogue essay, Frequency. Studio Museum In Harlem,
2006: 64-65.
Carson, Tavonne S.,“Frequency,” Impact 210 The Magazine, February 2006.
Schwendener, Martha. “Color-Field,” Time Out New York. February 2006.
Cortez, Iggy. “Turning our dials to a network of varying voices,” Columbia Spectator. February 21, 2006.
Stillman, Nick. “Frequency,” Brooklyn Rail. February 2006: 22.
Brockington, Horace. “Wavelength,” NY Arts. January/February, 2006.
“Frequency,” The Week. January, 2006.
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Frequency,” Artforum. January 2006: 217.
2005
Carter, Holland. “Fanciful to figurative to wryly inscrutable,”New York Times. July 8, 2005: 29.
Gardner, James. “Art Attack,” New York Post. July 23, 2005: 27.
Smith, Roberta. “Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist,” New York Times.
November 18, 2005: B35.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, VT
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH