Oliver Hoffmeister (b. 1995 Chesterfield) is a painter-printmaker living and working between Newcastle and 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 everyday, 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 re-thinking how he makes images, his relationship to them and to what extent his art can contribute a level of critical commentary on painting.



EDUCATION

2022-2023, The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School, UK
2021-2022, Collective Studio, The Newbridge Project, UK
2014-2018, BA Fine Art, Newcastle University, UK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Japanese Woodblock Prints, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle, UK 
2025 Salon Traders, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 

2024 BEEP Painting Prize (Shortlisted), Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
2024 Le Petit Salon (Tagli Projects), Cromwell Place, London, UK
2024 Things Happen All the Time, Slugtown, Newcastle, UK 
2024 Along The Stomping Ground, Prince and Pilgrim, London, UK 
2024 Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition, Gallery 8, London, UK 
2024 Works On Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, Online
2024 Gathering Relief, Appach Gallery, London, UK 
2024 At Last It Came Into Focus (Warbling Collective), 19 Greek Street, London, UK
2024 The Newbridge ‘Open’ Open, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle, UK

2023 But Dearer Still is the Truth, Plato Gallery, Évora, PT
2023 Studio Show 2023, Space Hackney, London, UK
2023 The Best of the Drawing Year 2023, Christies, London, UK 
2023 In The Making, Liliya Gallery, London, UK
2023 Counterpart, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK (Curator: Daniel Goodman)

2022 Everyone Knows This is Nowhere: Painting In The North-East Now, NCA, Newcastle, UK
2022 After The Flood, Republic Gallery, Blyth, UK
2022 I Wish I Had Wings, 36 Gallery, Newcastle, UK (Solo)
2022 Three’s a Crowd, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
2022 Open exhibition 2022, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
2022 Collected, 36 Gallery, Newcastle, UK

2021 Hide and Seek, Gynasium Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK (Solo)
2021 Friends with Benefits, Safe House one, London, UK  
2021 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 (Online Longlist Exhibition), Online

2020 Glossary of Etching, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK 
2020 Ghosts That Live Amongst Us (Warbling Collective), 155a Gallery, London, UK
2020 ING Discerning Eye Prize 2020, Online 
PRIZES:

2024 - The Richard Ford Award
2024 - Beep Painting Prize (shortlisted)
2023 - The Jack Goldhill Studio Practice Prize
2021 - CBPP (longlisted)
2018 - The Hatton Prize 

RESIDENCIES:

2024 - Madrid - The Richard Ford Award (Museo Del Prado) 
2024 - Italy - Moritz/Heyman Residency 
2023 - Megabus Residency 
2017 - Berwick - Berwick Student Residency
2016 - Romney Marsh - IMOS Foundation 

COLLECTIONS:

Moritz/Heyman Collection The Royal Collection
Museo Del Prado
Royal Academy Collection