Erin Oliver creates immersive sculptural installations with ephemeral materials to explore ideas about abstraction and artifice, cyclical processes and spatial environments. Her work has been supported by several grants and residency fellowships including the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Ella Foundation Pratt Emerging Artist Grant and the Gasparilla Emerging Artist Award juried by Paul Galloway from MOMA.
Her work has been exhibited at the USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, FL, UNC Asheville’s S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Asheville, NC, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, the Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro, NC and the Blumenstein Museum in Taos, NM. Erin received her MFA from the University of South Florida.