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Biography - Nathan Oliveira

Born

1928 Oakland, CA. Lives in Stanford, CA.

Education

1950 Mills College, Oakland, CA
1951 B.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1952 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Teaching

1952-53 California College of Arts and Craft, Oakland, CA
1955-56 California College of Arts and Craft, Oakland, CA
1964-96 Professor of Studio Arts, Stanford University, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 “Nathan Oliveira: Rocker II”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“Masks: Monotypes and Lithographs”, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2007 “New Bronze Sculpture” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2005 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Contemporary Prints,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2003 “Oil Paintings and recent monotypes,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2003 “Solitary Shape and Figure Watercolors,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2003 Recent Paintings and Monotypes, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
“Nathan Oliveira,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. February 9, 2002 - May 12, 2002. Traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York, NY, Purchase, NY; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
2001 “Singular,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Figurative Watercolors from 1965 – 2000 & New Site Monotypes,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 “Recent Monotypes,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Prints/Copperplate Figures,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“The Windhover Paintings,” Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
“Acqua: Water Media Works on Paper,” 1958-1989, Weigand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1997 “Recent Paintings and Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Variations in Time/Nathan Oliveira/Monotypes and Monoprints,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
1996 “Nathan Oliveira: Recent Paintings and Related Works,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
“Recent Works,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“The Windhover,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
1995 “The Windhover; Recent Wing Paintings and Related Works,” Stanford University Museum of Art, CA
“Paintings and Sculpture,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1994 “Nathan Oliviera: Recent Paintings,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 “Recent Paintings: Stelae,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Works on Paper by Nathan Oliveira - Gifts from the John Young Collection,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1992 Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
1991 “The New Mexican Sites,” (Hand Painted Monotypes executed at Hand Graphics, Santa Fe), John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nathan Oliveira Monotypes, Dorsky Galleries, New York, NY
1989 “Figures: Summer, Monotypes from the Experimental Workshop,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Nathan Oliveira: Raptors and Related Images,” Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA
1988 “Continuous Tone: The Work of Nathan Oliveira,” Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
“Autunno in Toscana 1986, Monotypes,” Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa
1987 “Nathan Oliveira: Recent Paintings,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 “Works by Nathan Oliveira”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
“Autunno in Toscana 1986, Recent Monotypes,” Il Bisonte Galleria d’Arte, Florence, Italy
1985 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1984 “Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA; Madison Art Center, WI; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman
1983 “Nathan Oliveira: Recent Paintings and Sculptures,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Nathan Oliveira: New Sculptural Works,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “Nathan Oliveira: Ryan Figures and Sites,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 The Arts Club of Chicago, IL
“Texas Images and Visions,” Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1980 “Nathan Oliveira: Swiss Site Series,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
“Nathan Oliveira Print Retrospective: 1949-80,” The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach; The Oakland Museum; Fresno Art Center, CA; University Art Collections, Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; University Art Gallery, State University of New York, NY, Albany; Salt Lake City Art Center, UT
1979 “Nathan Oliveira: A Survey of Work, 1959-79,” Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Nathan Oliveira: A Survey of Monotypes 1973-78,” Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; University Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 “Nathan Oliveira: Illustrations for an Unwritten Story,” Dorsky Galleries, New York, NY
Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne, West Germany
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
1977 “Nathan Oliveira: The Fetish Paintings and Recent Monoprints,” Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco
“To Edgar Allan Poe/A Suite of Lithographs and Related States,” El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
1976 “Bundles, Figures, and First Sites,” Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto, CA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
1975 “Hawk Sequence,” Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco
Dorsky Galleries, New York, NY
1973 “Spirit Paintings,” Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
“Nathan Oliveira on Campus,” William T. Boyce Library, Fullerton, CA
“Tauromaquia 21,” Galerie Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR
1972 Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
1971 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
“Oliveira ‘69,” Allen Priebe Art Gallery, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, WI
1970 “Monotypes of Masks by Nathan Oliveira,” Galerie Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto, CA
“The Marian Sinton Collection,” Hillbarn Theater, Foster City, CA
1969 “Works on Paper,” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1968 Galerie Bleue, Stockholm, Sweden
“Paintings and Drawings by Nathan Oliveira,” Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965 “Twelve Intimate Fantasies,” Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Nathan Oliveira: Drawings and Watercolors of the Figure,” Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1964 R.E. Lewis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1963 “Major Comprehensive Exhibition of Five Years of Work, Nathan Oliveira,” Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Art; Fort Worth Art Center; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1962 The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1961 “Nathan Oliveira: Paintings and Drawings,” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
“Watercolor Studies of the Nude,” R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Francisco
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
“Recent Work by Nathan Oliveira,” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana; University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis
1960 “Nathan Oliveira: Paintings,” The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1959 Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1958 The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1957 “Lithographs by Nathan Oliveira,” Eric Locke Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Selected Works John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Painting John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Selections John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
Crown Point Press - The Art of Etching The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
New Acquisitions—Contemporary Art ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Selected Works John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Highlights - New Acquisitions John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paintings John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Figure John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Selected Acquisitions John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 The Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
A Legacy for Learning Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2000 Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1999 “What is Art for?” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
“Where the Wild Things Are: Artists’ Views of the Animal World,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Art of Collaborative Printmaking – Smith Andersen Editions,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
“A Theatre of Art III,” Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“Centennial Exhibition 1989 – 1998,” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1997 “Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America,” National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
“Important Bay Area Paintings, 1954-1960,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Figuratively Speaking,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Master Printers and Master Pieces,” Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
“The Bay Area Connection, Works from the Anderson Collection,” Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
“John Berggruen Gallery/Friesen Gallery Fine Art: A Collaboration,” Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1995 “XXV Years,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“La jeune gravure contemporaine et ses invites des USA,” Maire du Sixieme Arrondissement, Paris, France
“The Collector’s Perspective, American and European Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“The Black and White Exhibition,” Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 “Directions in Bay Area Printmaking,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
1991 “Large Scale Works On Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952 - 1990,” The Miyaga Museum of Art, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Tokumisha Modern Art Museum, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Kochi Prefecture Museum of Folk Art, Japan
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany
“Drawings,” Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood
1990 “A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960,” The Chicago International Art Exposition; Worcester Art Museum, MA
“Regarding Art: Artworks About Art,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1989 “Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Art Against AIDS, San Francisco Exhibition; The Chicago International Exposition
1988 “Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 “Public and Private: American Prints Today,” The Brooklyn Museum; Flint Institute of Arts, MI; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1985 “Contemporary Monotypes: Six Masters,” De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
“Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980,” The Oakland Museum
“Tamarind 25th Anniversary Exhibition,” Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1984 “The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, 1956-66,” Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York Univeristy, NY
1983 “Resource/Reservoir, California College of Arts and Crafts:” 75 Years, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1982 “Drawings by Painters,” Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; The Oakland Museum, CA
1981 “Contemporary American Prints and Drawings 1940-80,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“American Prints: Process & Proofs,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1980 “Bay Area Art: Then and Now,” The Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
“The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1979 “FIAC 79,” Grand Palais, Paris, France
“American Monotypes: 100 Years,” Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “Contemporary American Monotypes,” Impressions Gallery, Boston
“Menschenbilder, Galerie Veith Turske,” Cologne, West Germany
1977 “Discover the Monotype,” Impressions Gallery, Boston
1976 “Contemporary Monotypes,” Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
“30 Years of American Printmaking,” The Brooklyn Museum
1975 “Drawings by Contemporary American Artists,” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1974 “An Exhibition of the Works of the Candidates for Art Awards,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1973 “San Francisco Area Contemporary Printmakers,” The Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
1971 “Continuing Surrealism,” La Jolla Museum of Art, CA
1970 “Drawings 1970: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah,” The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara
1969 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969,” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
1968 “The Neuberger Collection:” An American Collection - Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, Providence; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1967 “Drawings by Americans: Recent Work by Thirteen Contemporary Artists,” The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1966 “The 161st Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture,” The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
“Contemporary Prints From Northern California,” The Oakland Museum; IBM Gallery, New York, NY
1965 “One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings,” Museum of Modern Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1964 “Jack Levine, Nathan Oliveira,” Galleria George Lester, Rome, Italy
“Contemporary Sculptors and Painters as Printmakers,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1962 “65th Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Paintings and Drawings,” The Art Institute of Chicago
“Linearity in Paintings and Drawings,” University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
1961 “64th American Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture,” The Art Institute of Chicago
1959 “Nebraska Art Association: 69th Annual Exhibition,” The University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln
“Painting Since 1945: A Collection in the Making, Lent by Richard Brown” Baker, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“New Paintings, Sculpture,” The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1958 “Exhibition of New Painting and Sculpture,” The Alan Gallery, New York, NY
“Fifth International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography,” The Cincinnati Museum of Art, OH
1956 “Ten Years of American Prints 1947-56,” The Brooklyn Museum, NY
“62nd Annual of Western Artists,” The Denver Art Museum, CO
1955 “Fourth Annual Exhibition: Watercolors, Prints, Decorative Arts,” Richmond Art Center, CA
“The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,” The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1953 “72nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association,” San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
1951 “19th Annual Exhibition: Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings, and Prints,” Oakland Art Gallery, CA
“Richmond Art Center First Annual Open Exhibition in Painting and Sculpture,” Richmond Art Center, CA
1950 “18th Annual Exhibition: Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings, and Prints,” Oakland Art Gallery, CA

Awards

2000 Distinguished Degree of “Commander” in “The Order of the Infante D. Henrique” awarded by the President of Portugal and the Portuguese government.
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1994 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge
Elected Academy Membership (Fellow), American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1992 Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts Emeritus, Stanford University, CA
1988 Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts, Endowed Chair, Stanford University, CA
1985 Academician, Graphic Arts, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Academy Institute Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1982 Elected Associate Member, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1974 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1968 Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Honoris Causa, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1964 Tamarind Lithography Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Arte Actual de America y Espana Special Prize, Madrid, Spain
1959 Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1958 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1957 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

Public Collections

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, San Francisco
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Dallas Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
E. & J. Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Collection Australia, Melbourne
Norwalk Community College, Fairfield, CT
Oakland Art Museum, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, OR
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Schenectady Museum of Art, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stanford University Museum of Art
St. Louis Art Museum, MO
Syracuse University, NY
Tate Gallery, London, England
University of California, Berkeley
University of Houston, TX
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT