Lives & works between London & Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
2026
'Resonance Project: The Cave', Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (upcoming)
2025
'Reanimation Paintings: A Thousand Voices / Part 2', Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
'Solo Show', Thaddaeus Ropac Marais, Paris, France
'Compositions for Mouths, Face and Hand's, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2024
'Reanimation Paintings: A Thousand Voices / Part 1', Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
'Resonance Paintings - Nymphéas', Normandie Impressionniste, FRAC Normandie / Le Hangar 107, Rouen, France
'Beginner’s Luck', Tao Art, Taipei City, Taiwan
'Resonance Paintings - Cat Orchestra', Almine Rech Tribeca, New York, US
2023
'Recompositions: Night Revels', Almine Rech gallery, Shanghai, China
'Albion Waves', Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
'Oliver Beer: Resonance Paintings - Blue Notes', Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2022
'Oliver Beer: Resonance Paintings - Two Notes', Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2021
'Composition for Mouths (Songs My Mother Taught Me)', Opéra Garnier, Paris, France
'Murs du Son (Infinite Variations on a Theme)', Venet Foundation, France
'A Thousand Faces', Le Louvre, Paris, France
'Ghost Notes (Part I)', THE CLUB, Tokyo, Japan
2020
'Oliver Beer: Oma', Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
2019
'Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra', Met Breuer, New York, US
'Stray Voices', FIAC Parades at Palais de la Découverte, Paris, France
'A Thousand Faces', Al Jahili Fort / Qasr al Hosn in collaboration with Louvre Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
'Recomposition (Baloo Stripped Bare)', Manif d'art 9 - The Quebec City Biennial, Galerie des arts visuels, Quebec City, Canada
'Household Gods', Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
'Oliver Beer: Impossible Composition', University of New South Wales Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'Mona Confessional', Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
2018
'Reanimation (Alice Falling)', Ruya Foundation, Baghdad, Iraq
'Reanimation (Snow White)', George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, US
'Oliver Beer: Impossible Composition', Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017
'Oliver Beer: New Performance & Sculpture', Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
'Oliver Beer', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2015
'Life, Death and Tennis', Daiwa Art Prize 2015 Exhibition, Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
'Deconstructing Sound', Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
'Making Tristan', Artist in Residence, Watermill Center, New York, US
'Call to Sound', Istanbul Biennale, Kilic Ali Pasa Hamam, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
'Composition For a New Museum', Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
'Diabolus in Musica', Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
'Rabbit Hole', Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
'Prospectif Cinéma 2014: Oliver Beer', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013
'Composition For Hearing An Architectural Space', Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
'Outside-In (permanent installation)', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
'The Resonance Project', Art Brussels, WIELS Contemporary art centre, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
'The Resonance Project: Deep and Meaningful', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2012
'KLANG', Palais de Tokyo Art Club, Paris, France
2011
'The Resonance Project: Pay and Display', Autumn Almanac, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2010
'Deep and Meaningful', murmurART, 20 Hoxton Square, London, UK
'Training, Ikon Gallery', Birmingham, UK
2009
'Die Budgie History', Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, UK
2008
'The Resonance Project', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007
'Oliver Beer', La Viande Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2025
'The Life of Things', Voorlinden museum, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
'Énormément bizarre.Exposition de la donation de la Fondation Antoine de Galbert – Collection Jean Chatelus', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'VERTIGO', Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
'TERRA', Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
2024
17e Biennale de Lyon ‘Les voix des fleuves’, Les Grandes Locos, Lyon, France
'Sur tes lèvres', Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Exposition de la donation Jean Chatelus (Fondation Antoine de Galbert), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Les Fantômes de l’Opéra #3', Opéra de Rennes / Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
'A toi de choisir !', Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France
'Double Take', LVH Art, London, UK
'Pop up polychrome, ART & SPORT' / Grand Palais Rmn, Mulhouse, France
'History, A microcosmic perspective', 20/21 espacio de arte, Tijarafe, La Palma, Spain
'I Never Dream Otherwise than Awake Journeys in Sound', Centre Pompidou x West bund Museum, Shanghai, China
'The Architecture of Staged Realities - (re)constructing Disney’', arc en rêve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux, France
'In House', Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘Excavation: Macro to the Micro’, curated by Deborah Smith, Vortic and Koko, London, UK
'A Blue-Flowering Day', curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
'Prosodic Grains', BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
'50——90: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum', Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Biennale de Lyon ‘Resonance Project: The Cave’ , Les Grandes Locos, Lyon, France
2023
'L’autre musée', the treasures of a major contemporary art collection, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
'Un Lac Inconnu', Bally Foundation, Villa Heleneum, Lugano, Switzerland
'Je(ux) en construction', Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse / Médiathèque Grand M, Toulouse, France
2022
'Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained', Parasol Unit, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
'L’enfance dans la collection Agnès B.', La Fab., Paris, France
'Formes du transfert' curated by Gaël Charbau, Magasins Généraux, Fondation Hermès, Pantin, France
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, University of Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton, UK
British Art Show 9, The Box, KARST, The Arts Institute's Levinsky Gallery, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK
British Art Show 9, HOME, Manchester Art Gallery, Castlefield Gallery, The Whitworth and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, UK
'The Woman in the Window', between the arts, Tokyo, Japan
'Wonderland', Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia
'AIR', QAGOMA - Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
'The Strange', Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
2021
British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
'Human Conditions of Clay', Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK
'Sound Vision: Harmonious Relationships in Art and Music', Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York
'When in Doubt, Go to a Museum', City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia
'The Strangeness of Beauty', Issue 8, Parasol Unit publication, London, UK
'Sables Brûlants', Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis, France
'Flat Work', Ryan Gander’s Solid Haus, Suffolk, UK
'Sorry It’s a Mess, We’ve Just Moved In!' curated by Roya Sachs, LAMB, London, UK
Extension Sauvage Festival, Frac Bretagne, Château de la Ballue, Brittany, France
'The Still Point', Kudan House, Tokyo
'Right About Now: Arts Council Acquisitions', No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
'Polyphone', Kunstsammlung Gera and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera, Germany
2020
'10th Anniversary exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art', Tasmania, Australia
'Reverb: Sound into Art', Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
'Rendez-vous', Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
'And suddenly it all blossoms', Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2), Riga, Latvia
'O Sole Mio', Parasol Unit publication, London, UK
'Inner Space', Oliver Beer Studio, London, UK
2019
'Collectionner au XXIe siecle: De leur temps (6)', Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
'Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters', Pola Museum of Art, Japan
'...Et l'obscur', L'Abbaye du Thoronet (in collaboration with Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Le Thoronet, France
'Hypertimes', FuturDome, Milan, Italy
'Oliver Beer, Rassegna di video arte del XXI secolo al MACRO', Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy
'Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
'Hidden Pulse, Vivid Live' (in collaboration with M+), Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
2018
21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
'Wonderland', ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
'Abstract/ion', Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
'The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes', National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
'À bâtons rompus', Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France
2017
'Voyage d'hiver', cur. Palais de Tokyo, Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
'Sans reserve: Exposition des oeuvres de la collection', MAC VAL - Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
'7th Socle du Monde Biennale', Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2016
'Polyphonies, Centre Pompidou', Paris, France
VG Award Exhibition, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
Nuit Blanche 2016, Paris, France
'Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak', AOYAMA/MEGURO, Tokyo, Japan
2015
'Collective Collection', Le BBB centre d'art, Toulouse, France
'Where the day begins', Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Exhibition 2015, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK
'Sounds Like Music', D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014
'Orkest!', Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
'Condensation', Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea
'Bright Intervals', cur. Palais de Tokyo, Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, US
'Condensation', Le Forum, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan
'Saint Jerome', Meessen de Clerq, Brussels, Belgium
2013
'Oliver Beer | Shingo Yoshida', Villa Arson, Nice, France
'The Present is Unfinished', 12th Biennale de Lyon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
'Nouvelles Vagues', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012
'100 Curators', Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Nuit Blanche 2012, Paris, France
2nd Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France
Whitstable Biennale 2012, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, UK
'(Entre)Ouverture', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany
FRAC Corsica (with Pavillon Neuflize OBC), Corte, Corsica, France
Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, France
'La Part de l'Ombre', Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
2011
'Mindful', Old Vic Tunnels, London, UK
Saatchi Gallery at The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle, Hertfordshire, UK
2010
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
'Anticipation 2010', Selfridges, London, UK
Ruskin Shorts, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, UK
'Concrete and Glass', 20 Hoxton Square, London, UK
'Reflections', DNA Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009
'New Sensations 2009' (org. The Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4), A Foundation, Rochelle School, London, UK
'Resonance FM', online, London, UK
Ruskin Degree Show 2009, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Ruskin Shorts, Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford, UK
2008
ICA, Performance with Goodbooks, London, UK
'20 Eventi', Rome, Italy
'Box Ladder', Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Beaconsfield Gallery, performance with Matmos, London, UK
Vivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007
Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2006
Beardsmore Gallery (with Oliver Barratt), London, UK
Balaton Film Festival, Balatonfüred, Hungary
Vivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Prizes / Residencies
2024
Villa Albertine, artist in residence, New York, US
2021
Mondes Nouveaux – National Culture Prize (awarded by the president of France), Paris, France
2017
Artist in residence Sydney Opera House
2015
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize (Winner), Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK
2015
Artist in Residence, Watermill Center, New York, NY, US
2013
Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2012
Artist in Residence, Fondation Hermès, Saint-Louis glass manufacturer, France
2011
Artist in Residence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2010
Arts Council England Award and Commission
2009
New Sensations 2009 (winner), Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4, London, UK
Public Collections
Australia
Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania
China
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
France
Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Paris
Musée national d’arts moderne du Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris
Les Abattoirs, Musée – FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse
Musée d'art contemporain - MAC, Lyon
Collection du MAC VAL, France
Kadist Collection Paris, France
Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Monaco
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
United Arab Emirates
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
UK
GOSH Arts - Arts programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Child, London
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Arts Council Collection, UK
USA
Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, CA
Teaching
Royal College of Art, London
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford
Berklee College of Music, Boston
Architectural Association School of Architecture
