Demetrius Oliver (b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (1998) and his M.F.A from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2004), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2004). From 2004-06 he was an artist resident at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and from 2006-07, an artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. His work has been exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Light Work, Syracuse, NY (2011); Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2009); Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (2009); the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA (2006); P.S.1, New York, NY (2006), and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005). Notable group exhibitions include 30 Seconds Off An Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2010); Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (2009); Black Is, Black Ain't, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2008); and Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005).
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