Education
1995 M.F.A. New Genre, University of California, Los Angeles
1992 B.F.A. Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
Professional Experience
2017 - 2019 Creative Director / Founder - Mocama Brewing Company LLC, Amelia Island FL
2015 - present Owner / Designer – Foamocean.com, Laguna Beach CA
2009 - 2019 Owner / Designer- Box for the Birds, Athens GA
2006 - present Owner / Designer - Michael Oliveri Studio LLC, Laguna Beach Ca
2006 - 2019 Project Manager / Fabricator / Design Assistant- for musician Michael Stipe
1999 - 2000 Creative Director -Wire Break; Web Start-Up - Venice CA
1996 - 1998 Designer/ Fabricator -Transportation FX, Moorpark CA
1993 - 1999 Art director, Scenic Designer, Set Decorator, Carpenter, Props
Freelance Film Industry, Los Angeles CA
1990? Textile designer, Ocean Pacific Sun Wear children’s division
1987-1989 Sculpture, Art Department Disneyland, Anaheim CA.
1985 - 1987 Owner/graphic designer Surf Asylum, Huntington Beach CA
Academic Positions
2006 - Present Associate Professor School of Art / Tenure - University of Georgia
2017- Present ArtX: Expanded Forms, Chair
2001 - 2009 ArtX Founder and Chair - University of Georgia
2001 - 2006 Assistant Professor School of Art - University of Georgia
1999 - 2001 Assistant Professor School of Art - Florida State University
1995- 1997 Graduate Assistant UCLA for Diana Thater, Joan Jonas, Paul McCarthy
Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Teaching & Research Programs
2009 - 2015 Faculty Discover Abroad UGA Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Bali Indonesia.
Developed and implemented a study abroad program Sustaining Human Societies and the Natural Environment combining interdisciplinary art with anthropology, ecology, and geology.
Interdisciplinary Research Projects
2015- 2016 Design Thinking: Art, Engineering, Business, Landscape Architecture
2009 - 2015 Center for Ultrastructural Research at UGA: I used a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to photograph my gold plated insect assemblages making digitally stitched large format prints, varying from 4’ to 8’ in scale. They are widely published and exhibited.
2011 Scripts Institute Artist in residence aboard the research vessel Melville off the coast of Brazil for a three-week scientific exploration on climate warming. In the extreme darkness of the ocean nights, I used long exposure photography to create my series ‘Drawings from Jupiter’. I also redesigned some of their scientific data collecting tools, and was the resident documentarian while shadowing Dr Patricia Yager, the project director.
2007- 2009 “Innerspace” with Dr Zhengwei Pan from Nanotechnology department at UGA. Dr Pan’s lab creates proprietary nano structures; samples too small to see without powerful equipment. I was given access to scan the samples and created large scale landscape photographs where the nano world for a moment gave the illusion of being recognizable. The prints have been in many gallery and museum exhibitions with articles appearing in both art and scientific journals. My education outreach collaboration contributed to Dr Pan receiving a NSF Career Award for $592,870 for continued work in his lab.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 UFO Roadshow, Dashboard Gallery, Joshua Tree CA www.dashboard.us/ufo-roadshow
2015 Under the Sun, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville Florida
2015 Still Life Images of the Dead, Micrographs, Georgia College, Milledgeville GA
2012 Looking for Light, The Glass Cube, The Indigo Gallery, Athens GA
2010 Innerspace the BIO works, Twin Kittens, Atlanta GA
2010 Muchas Gracias, Athens Cine, Athens GA
2008 Innerspace, Permaculture and UFO’s, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville TN
2008 Innerspace, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2007 E-Scaping the Grid, Grand Center, St Louis MO
2007 Hydrocarbons, Young Harris College Art Gallery, Young Harris GA
2006 Ultraviolet Acquiescence & Deep Space Drip Culture, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
2005 UV Hydrocarbon, Music Midtown, Atlanta Ga
2004 Fast Food Hydrocarbons and Waves in Outer Space, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta Ga
1994 El Pollo Doh Loco, Crossing Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1994 Soundscapes, Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1992 Cage’n Fish, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1991 Reverse Skinner Box, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Group Exhibitions
2015 Dash Initial, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans LA www.dashboard.us/dash-initial
2015 NEW YORK NOW design fair, Javits Center, Karen Alweil Studio, NY NY
2015 Gallery, Fresno State, Fresno CA
2014 LA Wood, Arena1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2013/14 Design Fair Atlanta, Los Angeles, NYC Karen Alweil Studio
2013 Temporal Distortions, Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg VA
2013 Photo Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris France
2013 Artist Invitational Consumption & Sustainability, Fresno State University, Fresno CA
2013 Annual Invitational, Conley Galley, California State University, Fresno CA
2012 Here & There, Nano Prints, Classic Center Galleries, Athens GA
2012 “Drawings from Jupiter”The Indigo Gallery, Athens, GA
2012 “Drawings from Jupiter” The Hudgens Center for the Arts, Gwinnett GA
2012 Live/Work Twin Kittens, Atlanta GA
2009 Darwin, Innerspace series, Schatten Gallery Emory University, Atlanta GA
2009 Photos Summer Group show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 Innerspace 2 and 64 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
2008 Innerspace 4, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta GA
2008 Fractal Geometric Valley, ACP, Atlanta GA
2008 Innerspace, The Sovereign, Atlanta GA
2008 Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta GA
2007 Power Ball 9, The Power Plant, Toronto Canada
2007 Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta GA
2007 Design Rally 07, Athens GA
2007 Nano structures un-structured, UGA Georgia Center, Athens, GA
2005 Scope, Art Papers, Miami, FL
2005 Switch, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2005 VIBE Summer ‘05 Simultaneous Video Screenings, Chicago, Liverpool, Manchester
2004 Art, Technology & the Future, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL
2004 Spring Season Show, Still Smoking & Happy, Monkeytown, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
2004 Picante, Still Smoking and Happy, El Pollo Doh Loco, Athica, Athens Ga
2004 Ecotopia, Hydrocarbons on Mars 1 w/ cultures, Lump Gallery, Raleigh NC
2004 Filling Up/Spilling Out, Still Smoking and Happy, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
Art, Palm Beach FL
2004 Permanent showcase, Hydrocarbons on Mars, Limn Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004 Glass, Hydrocarbons on Mars, California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2004 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee FL – Lens Table
2003 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee FL, EGEN,
Magic Mushroom, Light Island
2003 Videos: Implants, Architecture and Wishful Thinking, Remax, Strategies in Waiting,
Titicutly Stamping Nauman, California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2003 The Canal Street Projection Project, Still Smoking & Happy, New Orleans LA
2003 A Shot In The Dark, Remax/ Strategies in Waiting, The Contemporary, Atlanta GA
2002 Art Basel, TBC2, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Miami Beach FL
2002 Fine Craft Make a Home, TBC1, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens GA
2002 DesignX: Critical Reflections, Courting Installation, Florida State University Museum,
Tallahassee FL
2002 Sensory Overload, Mouse & Polar Bear 3, 10-minute TItac 2, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens GA
2002 Digigraphical, Titicutly Stamping Nauman, University of Georgia Main Gallery, Athens GA
2002 Armory Show, Acoustic Mole 3, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago IL, Pier 90 NYC
2001 Impact, 10-minute tac-tic, Acoustic Mole2, Still Smoking and Happy, GA Museum of Art,
2001 Sound and Complexity, 64 frames per second, Acoustic Mole 1, Classified2, Plan B
Performing Arts, SantaFe, NM
2001 Faculty Show, The Kiss, The adventures of Gwendaline, Still Smoking & Happy, FSU
Museum, Tallahassee, FL
2000 Havana Biennale, Havana 2K, Havana Cuba
2000 Van Gogh’s Ear, 10-minute tac-tic, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee FL
2000 Works on a yellow legal pad, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
2000 Tres Amigos, 64 frames per second, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee FL
1999 Gartner No.1, Gartner Studios, Santa Monica CA
1998 Sound, Don’t Touch, Earmuffs, Joker D, Santa Ana Collage main gallery Santa Ana, CA
1998 Beyond the Matter of Space, Big Ideas in a Small Room, Life Support System, BB Gallery, Venice, CA
1997 Malibu Sex Party, A Perfect Picture, Purple Gallery, Venice CA
1995 Eat or be Eaten/Painting not Painting, Mice & Polar Bears,Anderson Gallery, Buffalo NY
1995 Graduate Show, Mouse & Polar Bear, UCLA at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA
1994 Poetic Devices, Sound Effects, Brea Municipal Gallery, Brea CA
1992 The Far Bazaar, Reverse Skinner Box 2, Los Angeles CA
Selected Art Reviews and Publications
Michele Fossi, “Piccole Incognite” Vogue Italia, October 2014 page 96, 2 Images
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Catalog 1 image Oct 2010
François Lassagne, Une Nouvelle Vision de la Science, Science & Vie Nano Technology the Invisible Revolution Dec 12, 2010 Images on pages 144-150
Kaushik Patowary, “Landscapes from the nano world” Amusing Planet, January 15, 2009
Susan Reslewic, “It’s a Mountain…It’s a Mushroom…It’s a Nanostructure!”, Talkingscience.com, Dec 5 2008
Susan F. Locke, “Six Images of Nano-scale Worlds, Scientific American, December 29, 2008
Ivan Amato, “Post Cards from Innerspace”, Chemical & Engineering News, November 24 2008
Carol Vansickle, “The Hypotheses of Hope” Practical Hydroponics, November/December 2006 cover & pg34-40
Carol Vansickle, “Ultraviolet Acquiescence and Deep Space Drip Culture” Growing Edge, November/December 2006 Cover & pg7, 34-37
Gene 13, “Hydro Art” Buzz Section, Hightimes December 2006, pg13
Kurt Shaw, “Future Now”, Pittsburgh Tribune, July 16 2006
Jennie Klien, “Weird Science”, Art Papers January/February 2006 pg19,20,21 and cover
Catherine Fox, “Outer space, inner workings” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta GA July 4, 2004
Jody Servon, “Boundaries of the Body: Filling Up/Spilling Out” NY Arts Magazine, New York NY July 3, 2004
Felicia Feaster, “Science fact or fiction” Creative loafing, Atlanta GA July 1, 2004
Andisheh Nouraee, “Videos, VD and the suckmaster II”, Creative Loafing, Atlanta GA Feb 19, 2003
Catherine Fox, “Taking their best shot at creativity” Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 14, 2003
Gail Rubini, Keith Roberson, “DesignX: critical reflections”, Florida State University, Oct 11, 2002
Nikita Strom, “Blinding You with Science” The Alibi V.10 No.33 Santa Fe NM, Aug 16, 2001
Jon Carver, “Critical Reflections”, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, August 2001
Craig Smith, “Examining”, The New Mexican, Santa Fe NM, July 13, 2001
Bruce Hanley, “Malibu Sex Party, Reviews”, Art Forum February 1998 pg 98
Susan Kandel, “Chickens, Pollo-Doh in Oliveri’s Tender hearted Anarchy” The Los Angeles Times Dec 1994
Carmine Iannaccone, “Art Issues, reviews” Los Angeles January 1994
David Pagel, “The Sound of Art”, The Los Angeles Times, November 6 1993
Design Reviews and Publications
In-Style magazine Gift Guide “You Rule” ruler December 2014
Tory Johnson, “Eco-Friendly Gear for Spring” Good Morning America Aired April 19, 2012
O Magazine “Favorite Things” 2007