Education
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1998 and his M.F.A from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2004.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1998 and his M.F.A from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2004.
He is known for site-specific, multi-disciplinary installations using photography, sculpture, and video. Using common materials and found imagery, his work explores such themes as American transcendentalism, music, and cosmology. He was a student of Terry Adkins.
He was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine in 2004, The Core Program in Houston, Texas from 2004 to 2006, and The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City from 2006 to 2007.
His exhibitions have included installations at the High Lincolnshire in New York City, 2010, and Observatory at Doctorate"Amelio Terras in New York City, 2002. In 2015 Oliver showed his work at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle at the University of Washington.
He currently teaches at Princeton University and is a part-time lecturer at The New School in New York City. He exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2007 in a show called Midnight"s Day Dream.
Oliver is represented by Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas.