Adriana Oliver

Adriana Oliver (b. 1990, Barcelona) lives and works in a coastal town near Barcelona. She trained as a photographer at IDEP Barcelona before turning to painting, and works in acrylic on canvas and wood panel, extending into sculpture and relief. Her figures are built from flat blocks of muted colour and heavy black outlines, with the faces left out. They come from 1950s and 1960s film stills and read as types rather than individuals, which is where the work puts its questions about how gender is assembled.

Solo exhibitions include This Time Tomorrow at Gallery Target and SAI, Tokyo (2022), Echoes at Moosey Art, London (2021), One Brief Moment at Dopeness Art Lab, Taipei (2020), and A Night Thought at Duran Mashaal, Montreal (2018). Her work has been shown at Fundación Carlos de Amberes in Madrid, at StadtPalais in Stuttgart, and at Phillips in London. She has collaborated with the Japanese label ADAM ET ROPÉ.

Oliver has worked with Plan X since 2023, when the gallery presented her work at Untitled Art Miami Beach. Her solo exhibition Another Sunset Goes By opened at Plan X Milan in 2024.