Oliver Beer | |
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 Oliver Beer, Font de Gaume's prehistoric cave, 2024 | |
| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) |
| Education | Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford |
| Known for | Conceptual art, installation art, video art, sculpture |
| Awards | Mondes Nouveaux |
| Website | oliverbeer |
Oliver Beer (born 1985) is a British artist who lives and works between London and Paris. He makes sculptures, installations, videos, and immersive live performances.
Oliver Beer studied musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music, London; visual art at the University of Oxford; and theory of cinema at the Sorbonne, Paris.
His background in both music and fine art led to an early interest in the relationship between sound and space, particularly the voice and architecture. He has translated his research into performances in which spectators take part and he makes sculptures and videos that embody the plastic expression of this relationship and the way the human body experiences it. Within and alongside his work with sound, Oliver Beer creates diverse sculpture, installation and film projects.
Beer's work has been the subject of many solo and group exhibitions, notably at Met Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA PS1, New York; Centre Pompidou, Opéra Garnier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Palais de Tokyo and Château of Versailles, Paris; the macLyon, Lyon; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; WIELS, Brussels and the Sydney and Istanbul biennales. Beer was included in the British Art Show 9 and has also held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Centre, Sydney Opera House and the Fondation Hermès.
