About

Oliver Hoffmeister (b.1995)                                                                                     

Oliver Hoffmeister (b. 1995 Chesterfield) is a painter-printmaker living and working in London. His work focuses on the obscure nature of the imagined image, with particular reference to the artist’s conceived imagery. Pulling influence from the plethora of visual stimuli that we interact with both passively and actively every day, he allows his subconscious to derive images without a system of hierarchy. Creating art in an act reminiscent of ‘daydreaming’, these images tend to shift and masquerade as something other, whilst remaining self-contained. Most recently Hoffmeister has begun rethinking how he makes images and his relationship to them.

Solo Exhibitions

Newcastle – 36 Gallery – ‘I Wish I Had Wings’ : 02/09/22 – 11/09/22

Berwick Upon Tweed – Gymnasium Gallery – ‘Hide and Seek’ : 22/05/21 – 27/06/21

Newcastle – System Gallery – ‘Foolish Fire’ : 01/08/19 – 07/08/19

Group Exhibitions

Portugal – Plato Gallery – ‘But Dearer Still Is the Truth’ : 23/09/23 – 14/10/23

London – Liliya Gallery – ‘In the Making’ : 01/03/23 – 04/04/23 

Newcastle – Newcastle Contempoary Art – ‘Everyone Knows This is Nowhere: Painting In The North-East Now’ : 09/03/22 – 09/04/22

Online – ‘Contemporary British Painting Prize Longlist : 10/12/21 – 13/02/22

London – Safe house One – ‘Friends With Benefits’ : 28/07/22 – 31/07/22

London – 155a Gallery – ‘Ghosts That Live Amongst Us’ (Warbling Collective) : 15/09/2020 – 26/09/2020 (Shortlisted)

Newcastle – Northern Print Studio – ‘Glossary of etching’ : 04/03/20 – 12/09/20

Newcastle – The Biscuit Factory: ‘Contemporary Young Artist Award 2019‘ : 17/05/2019 – 29/08/2019 (Shortlisted)

London – The Cello Factory – Ingram: ‘Young Contemporary Talent Award 2018’ : 22/11/18 – 26/11/2018 (Shortlisted)

Middlesborough – MIMA – ‘The Middlesborough Art Weekender’ : 04/10/18 – 07/10/18 (Shortlisted)

London – Exchange House – ‘The Graduate Art Prize 2018’ : 15/09/2018 – 25/11/2018 (Shortlisted)

Newcastle – System Gallery – ‘Polar’ : 19/07/18 – 18/08/18

London – R.K Burt Gallery – ‘Newcastle Printmakers’ : 06/08/18 – 16/08/18

London – Copeland Yard – ‘London Show 2018′ : 28/06/18 – 3/07/18

Newcastle – Hatton Gallery – ‘Newcastle Degree Show 2018’ : 01/06/18 – 22/06/18

Newcastle – System Gallery – ‘Transience (Part 2)’ : 16/05/18 – 31/05/18

Berwick upon Tweed – Foldyard Gallery – ‘Transience (Part 1)’ : 16/04/18 – 22/04/18

Newcastle – Ex-libris Gallery – ‘Kielder Onsite/Offsite, Kielder Offsite’ : 13/05/16 – 21/05/16

Collections

Moritz/Heyman Collection

Residencies

Moritz/Heyman Residency, Borgo Pignano, Italy : 2023

Berwick Upon Tweed Student Residency : 2017

IMOS Foundation Artist Residency : 2016

Prizes, Bursaries and Grants

Northern Print Bursary 2019 – gifted to further my independent practice

The Hatton Prize 2018 – Awarded by Newcastle University