Michael Oliveri
Associate Professor ART X: Expanded Forms
The University of Georgia
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Visual Arts Building
Athens, GA 30602
706-363-2209
moliveri101@gmail.com
Education
1995 M.F.A. New Genre, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1992 B.F.A. Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
1984 A.A. Electronics, Orange Coast College
Teaching
Associate Professor ArtX, UGA 2010 – Current
Chair ArtX, UGA 2001-2009
Assistant Professor Florida State University 1999 – 2001
Solo Art Exhibitions
2012 Looking for Light, The Glass Cube, The Indigo Gallery, Athens GA
2010 Innerspace the BIO works, Twin Kittens, Atlanta GA
2010 Muchas Gracias, Athens Cine, Athens GA
2008 Innerspace, Permaculture and UFO’s, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville TN
2008 Innerspace, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2007 E-Scaping the Grid, Grand Center, St Louis MO
2007 Hydrocarbons, Young Harris College Art Gallery, Young Harris GA
2006 Ultraviolet Acquiescence & Deep Space Drip Culture, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh PA
2005 UV Hydrocarbon, Music Midtown, Atlanta Ga
2004 Fast Food Hydrocarbons and Waves in Outer Space, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta Ga
1994 El Pollo Doh Loco, Crossing Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1994 Soundscapes, Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1992 Cage’n Fish, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1991 Reverse Skinner Box, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Group Art Exhibitions
2013 Annual Invitational, Conley Galley, California State University, Fresno CA
2012 Drawn from Athens, The Indigo Gallery, Athens, GA
2012 Drawn from Athens, The Hudgens Center for the Arts, Gwinnett GA
2012 Live/Work Twinkittens, Atlanta GA
2009 Darwin, Innerspace series, Schatten Gallery Emory University, Atlanta GA
2009 Photos Summer Group show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 Innerspace 2 and 64 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 Innerspace 4, Jackson Fina Art, Atlanta GA
2008 Fractal Geometric Valley, ACP, Atlanta GA
2008 Innerspace, The Sovereign, Atlanta GA
2008 Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta GA
2007 Power Ball 9, The Power Plant, Toronto Canada
2007 Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta GA
2007 Design Rally 07, Athens GA
2007 Nano structures un-structured, UGA Georgia Center, Athens, GA
2005 Scope, Art Papers, Miami, FL
2005 Switch, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2005 VIBE Summer05 Simultaneous Video Screenings, Chicago, Liverpool, Manchester
2004 Art, Technology and the Future, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science,Tallahassee, FL
2004 Spring Season Show, Still Smoking & Happy, Monkeytown, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
2004 Picante, Still Smoking and Happy, El Pollo Doh Loco, Athica, Athens Ga
2004 Ecotopia, Hydrocarbons on Mars 1 w/ cultures, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC
2004 Filling Up/Spilling Out, Still Smoking and Happy, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach FL
2004 Permanent showcase, Hydrocarbons on Mars, Limn Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004 Glass, Hydrocarbons on Mars, California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2004 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee FL – Lens Table
2003 The Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee FL, EGEN, Magic Mushroom, Light Island
2003 Implants, Architecture and Wishful Thinking, Remax, Strategies in Waiting, Titicutly Stamping Nauman, California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2003 The Canal Street Projection Project, Still Smoking & Happy, New Orleans LA
2003 A Shot In The Dark, Remax/ Strategies in Waiting, The Contemporary, Atlanta GA
2002 Art Basel, TBC2, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Miami Beach FL
2002 Fine Craft Make a Home, TBC1, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens GA
2002 DesignX: Critical Reflections, Courting Installation, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee FL
2002 Sensory Overload, Mouse & Polar Bear 3, 10-minute tac-tic 2, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens GA
2002 Digigraphical, Titicutly Stamping Nauman, University of Georgia Main Gallery, Athens GA
2002 Armory Show, Acoustic Mole 3, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago IL, Pier 90 NYC
2001 Impact, 10-minute tac-tic, Acoustic Mole2, Still Smoking and Happy, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA
2001 Sound and Complexity, 64 frames per second, Acoustic Mole 1, Classified2, Plan B Performing Arts, SantaFe, NM
2001 Faculty Show, The Kiss, The adventures of Gwendaline, Still Smoking & Happy, FSU Museum, Tallahassee, FL
2000 Havana Biennale, Havana 2K, Havana Cuba
2000 Van Gogh’s Ear, 10-minute tac-tic, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee FL
2000 Works on a yellow legal pad, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
2000 Tres Amigos, 64 frames per second, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee FL
1999 Gartner No.1, Gartner Studios, Santa Monica CA
1998 Beyond the Matter of Space, Big Ideas in a Small Room, Life Support System, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
1998 Sound, Don’t Touch, Ear Muffs, Joker D, Santa Ana Collage main gallery Santa Ana, CA
1997 Malibu Sex Party, A Perfect Picture, Purple Gallery, Venice CA
1995 Eat or be Eaten/Painting not Painting, Mice & Polar Bears, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo NY
1995Graduate Show, Mouse & Polar Bear, UCLA at Bergamount Station, Santa Monica CA
1994 Poetic Devices, Sound Effects, Brea Municipal Gallery, Brea CA
1992 The Far Bazaar, Reverse Skinner Box 2, Los Angeles CA
Product Design
2013 The Smallet Wallet
2012 Butterfly Lamps
2010 Bendz book ends
2009 Box for the Birds
2008 Cigarette Litter receptacle ADD collaborative
2006 Blazberry Highway Bus shelter ADD collaborative
Lectures & Seminars
2012 Guest speaker, Architecture Department, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
2010 Honors Student Lecture UGA
2010 Architecture Department, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA
2010 American Chemical Society, Atlanta GA
2010 Oberlin College Chemistry Department
2009 Curo Lecture UGA
2009 Society for Photographic Education, Southeast conference Atlanta GA
2009 Georgia Tech Nano Technology Department, Atlanta GA
Honors and Awards
2012 The M. G. Michael Award Dean’s Office
2012 Virginia Mary Macagnoni Prize Willson Center
2012-2013 Willson Center Faculty Research Fellowship Willson Center
Permanent Collections
2011 Athens Academy, Athens GA
2009 Paton Reed, Los Angeles CA
2008 Regent Partners, Atlanta GA
2003 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL
2002 Karl Lagerfeld, Biarritz France
Commissions
2007 E-Scaping the Grid, Grand Center, St Louis MO
2005 UV Hydrocarbon, Music Midtown, Atlanta GA
2004 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL – Lens Table
2003 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL – EGEN, Magic Mushroom, Light Island
Reviews & Publications
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Catalog 1 image Oct 2010
François Lassagne, Une Nouvelle Vision de la Science, Science & Vie Nano Technology the Invisible Revolution Dec 12, 2010 Images on pages 144-150
3D SEM image, Young Foxy and Free, Athens, GA 2010
Susan Reslewic, “It’s a Mountain…It’s a Mushroom…It’s a Nanostructure!”, Talkingscience.com, Dec 5 2008
Ivan Amato, “Post Cards from Innerspace”, Chemical & Engineering News, November 24 2008
Maria Browning, “Microscopic Landscapes and extraterrestrialgardens”, Nashville Scene, October 29 2008
Helen Fostgate, “Tiny Landscapes of Unseen Worlds”, UGA Research Magazine, Fall 2008
Beth Sale,”Designing a New Reality” Flagpole, April 2007
Ann B. Doran, “Art around the Corner” Union Sentinel, March 2007
Julie Phillips, “Athens Design Developement combines creativity with community” Athens Banner Herald, Marque Cover, April 2007
Carol Vansickle, “The Hypotheses of Hope” Practical Hydroponics, November/December 2006 cover & pg34-40
Carol Vansickle, “Ultraviolet Acquiescence and Deep Space Drip Culture” Growing Edge, November/December 2006 Cover & pg7, 34-37
Gene 13, “Hydro Art” Buzz Section, Hightimes December 2006, pg13
Kurt Shaw, “Future Now”, Pittsburgh Tribune, July 16 2006
Jennie Klien, “Weird Science”, Art Papers January/February 2006 pg19,20,21 and cover
Melissa Link, “Vibrant Impact”, Athens Banner Herold, Athens GA July 8, 2004
Catherine Fox, “Outer space, inner workings” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta GA July 4, 2004
Jody Servon, “Boundaries of the Body: Filling Up/Spilling Out” NY Arts Magazine, New York NY July 3, 2004
Felicia Feaster, “Science fact or fiction” Creative loafing, Atlanta GA July 1, 2004
Marty Berry, “3 men and an art show” The Fresno Bee, Fresno CA, Dec 22, 2003
Andisheh Nouraee, “Videos, VD and the suckmaster II”, Creative Loafing, Atlanta GA Feb 19, 2003
Catherine Fox, “Taking their best shot at creativity” Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 14, 2003
Mary Jessica Hammes, “Art at home”, Athens Banner Herold, Jan 01, 2003
Gail Rubini, Keith Roberson, “DesignX: critical reflections”, Florida State University, Oct 11, 2002
Julie Powell, “Challenging the movement potential”, Athens Banner Herold, Feb 28, 2002
Mary Jessica Hammes, “Art that makes you feel”, Athens Banner Herold, Athens GA, June 19, 02
Mary Jessica Hammes, “ An exhibit from the teachers”, Athens Banner Herold, Dec 27, 2001
Nikita Strom, “Blinding You with Science” The Alibi V.10 No.33 Santa Fe NM, Aug 16, 2001
Jon Carver, “Critical Reflections”, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, August 2001
Craig Smith, “Examining”, The New Mexican, Santa Fe NM, July 13, 2001
Bruce Hanley, “Malibu Sex Party, Reviews”, Art Forum February 1998 pg 98
Susan Kandel, “Chickens, Pollo-Doh in Oliveri’s Tender hearted Anarchy” The Los Angeles Times Dec 1994
Carmine Iannaccone, “Art Issues, reviews” Los Angeles January 1994
David Pagel, “The Sound of Art”, The Los Angeles Times, November 6 1993
Employment
2001 – present – Associate Professor, ART X Expanded Forms, University of Georgia, Athens GA
1999 – 2001 – Visiting Artist Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL
1999 – Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, USC, Los Angeles CA
1997 – 1998 – Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art History, Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, CA
1997 – 1998 – Adjunct Professor of design and art Coastline Community College Costa Mesa, CA
1996 – 1998 – Designer, Fabricator, Transportation FX Moorpark CA
1993 – 1999 – Art director, Scenic, decorator, carpenter, Freelance Film Industry, Los Angeles CA