Artist resume

Jeffery Oliver (b. 1970) is a contemporary fine art photographer, writer and multimedia poet who loves riding a bicycle.

Artist statement

Jeffery Oliver makes photographs that wrestle the paradoxes of and relationships among perception and attention, natural and human-influenced environments, the quotidian and wonder. He shoots and prints utilizing both digital and traditional film and darkroom processes. Oliver often discovers locations for landscape photographs while on long bicycle treks through remote spaces in the American west.

Education

MFA Creative Writing & Literary Arts (poetry) / University of Alaska Anchorage / 2008

BFA Music (composition, voice, conducting) / Arkansas Tech University / 1995

Exhibitions

2026

Self Portraits (solo show) / The Common Well Pop-up Gallery / Boise, ID

Summer Solstice: Incandescent (juried group show) / Griffin Museum of Photography / Boston, MA

Small Works (solo) / Lenses & Brushes Studio and Darkroom / Boise, ID

2025

Winter Solstice 2025 (group) / Griffin Museum of Photography / Boston, MA

Clothesline Art Show (group invitational) / The Common Well Gallery / Boise, ID

2024

Show and Tell Residency Show (group) / The Common Well Gallery - Alexa Rose Foundation / Boise, ID

Clothesline Art Show (group invitational) / The Common Well Gallery / Boise, ID

Boise Open Studios (juried group show) / Boise Open Studios / Boise, ID

2021

Figural: Bodies in Print: poem and sound for collaborative dance-poetry video installation / Janet Turner Museum / Chico, CA

2015

The One and The Other - in a search for one another: an augmented reality poetry installation / Boise State University Permanent Collection Galleries / Boise, ID

Awards & Grants

2024

Show and Tell Residency, April - Oct. / Alexa Rose Foundation at The Common Well / Boise, ID

Presentations & Workshops