Oliver BEER

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Born in 1985. Graduated from BFA Fine Art at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford in 2009.
Recent 5 main activities are:
Life, Death and Tennis. Daiwa Art Prize 2015 solo exhibition, AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo, 2015
Deconstructing Sound, Daiwa Art Prize 2015 solo exhibition, ASAKUSA HOUSE, Tokyo, 2015
Call to Sound, a performance to coincide with the Istanbul Biennale, with Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, KILIC ALI PASA HAMAM, Istanbul, 2015
Daiwa Prize Exhibition, London, UK, 2015
Opening exhibition of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2014

Oliver Beer was born in 1985, Kent, United Kingdom, and currently lives and works in Paris and Kent. A holder of double degrees in music composition and visual art, his project focused on the resonance between architecture and human voice has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou and MoMA PS1 amongst others, gathering increasing attentions in recent years. In Japan, his work has been exhibited at "Condensation" (2014), organized by the Hermès Foundation.

About works / performance

Outside-In 2013, lead crystal
Tadzio Fondation Hermès

Modular Rail Sculpture 2014
Image © Oliver Beer

Daiwa Istallation View 2015

Silence is Golden 2013, 24 carat gold, lead crystal, paper.
Various dimensions
Tadzio Fondation Hermès

Out of Shot 2011, Courtesy the artist