Past Resident
2022: Vision Fund

Artist

Demetrius Oliver

Demetrius Oliver is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Oliver uses a range of commonplace objects and media to create subtle dialogues between matter and site. These site-specific exchanges are realized through improvisatory, installation-based gestures that call attention to the physical and dynamic properties of prosaic materials. Incorporating photography, sculpture, and video, Oliver elevates even the most ordinary objects to explore diverse phenomena in music, science, and thought.

Demetrius Oliver has exhibited work art MoMA PS1, New York City; MASS MoCA, North Adams; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Darian Longmire and Demetrius Oliver in Conversation with Alison Kuo

June 21, 2022, 6–7:30pm

Telescopic planetary views inform this billboard commissioned by the High Line. Voyeuristic scenes of hotel rooms depict mundane objects spontaneously arranged to contemplate the act of looking, assemblage, and the planet Jupiter. Notions of improvisation were amplified during the show’s run with weekly performances based on John Coltrane‘s jazz composition “Jupiter.”

Demetrius Oliver, Jupiter, 2010, billboard, performances, 900 × 300 in. (2286 × 762 cm).

Projected onto the exterior of the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, this video depicts a still image of a crashing wave constantly turning in the ocean. The movement of the video speaks to the rotation of the moon and its gravitational effect on tides.

Demetrius Oliver, Perigee, 2011, projection installation at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, dimensions variable.

Demetrius Oliver, Messier, 2013, digital print, 19 × 12¹/₂ in. (48.26 × 31.75 cm).

Image projected on lightbulbs held in the artist's hand.

Demetrius Oliver, Ember VII, 2008, digital print, 44 × 29 in. (111.76 × 73.66 cm).

With this floor sculpture stacked buckets are made to resemble a telescope. Projected inside the buckets is a single slide depicting sunlight as it strikes my studio’s floor. This piece opened an exhibition exploring celestial themes at Philadelphia’s Print Center in 2014.

Demetrius Oliver, Heliometric, 2014, mixed media, 104 × 30 × 203 in. (264.16 × 76.2 × 515.62 cm).

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

2025

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Past Resident
2022: Vision Fund

Artist

Zachary Fabri

Zachary Fabri is an interdisciplinary artist that complicates boundaries around studio research, performance, and socially engaged practice by immersing himself in environments such as Target stores, the Trump Hotel, and the streets of Brooklyn. Employing conceptual strategies and context specificity, he utilizes drawing, photography, video, performance, and sound to create discourse around issues of equality, representation, justice, and the dismantling of systemic oppression.

Zachary Fabri has exhibited work at Sharjah Biennial 2019, United Arab Emirates; Museum of Modern Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, both New York City, among others.