1975 Born Brooklyn, New York
1998 Rhode Island School of Design B.F.A (painting)
2004 University of Pennsylvania M.F.A (painting)
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Demetrius Oliver
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
2004 Dawn Till Dusk
Amistad Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003 New Work
Graduate Student Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2008 Blur
Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Midnight’s Daydream
Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Cataclysm and Creativity: Art in an Age of Uncertainty
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi, TX
2007 Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot Perry Collection
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Use Me
Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, ILL
World View
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Artadia Reprised
Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Crossing the Line: African American Art in the Jacqueline Bradley and
Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
2006 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
2005 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
2004 Round 21
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA


Residencies

2006-2007 AIR program / Studio Museum in Harlem
2004-2006 Core Program/ Museum of Fine Art, Houston
2004-2005 Artist in Residence/ Project Row Houses


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