Lives & works between London & Paris.
Solo Exhibitions
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
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, USA
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, USA
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, USA
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
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
2023
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
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
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 (postponed)
Rendez-vous, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, 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
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, USA
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
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, USA
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