PHOTOGRAPHER & EDUCATOR
AMY OLIVER
As a fine art and documentary photographer, I explore a sense of place that is personal and fleeting. That place could be a taco truck, my living room, a swimming pool, or the view from an airplane. Originally from a small town on the coast of North Carolina, I now call Ventura, California home.
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EDUCATION
2007 M.F.A. in Photography and Media. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001 B.A. Magna Cum Laude with High Thesis Honors, Plan of Study: Photography:
History, Theory, and Practice. Minor in Child Development. Tufts University, Medford MA
SOLO EXHIBITS
2023 Open Spaces & The Current State of Things, The Art Gallery @ GCC, Glendale, CA
2015 Ventura, CA USA, Ventura College Gallery, Ventura, CA
2013 Terrestrial, Buenaventura Art Association Gallery, Ventura, CA
2011 Quiet- Stella Dottir, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Projected Landscape- Master’s Thesis Show- California Institute of the Arts
2006 Green- Solo Exhibition- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 Portraits-Solo Show-Blue Pony Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2001 Lo que ví—What I saw, Photographs of Mexico- Tufts University, Medford, MA
GROUP EXHIBITS
2024 Ventura County, The Place We Call Home, Museum of Ventura County
2023 Brand 51st Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA
2023 The Artful Lens, Buenaventura Art Association Gallery, Studio 99, Ventura, CA
2021 Brand 49th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA
2018 GCC Sierra Vista Faculty Exhibit– Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
2017 California Landscapes: High Mountains to Low Deserts- Ventura County Arts Council Juried Exhibit, Ventura, CA
2015 From Above: Aerial Imagery in Painting and Photography, Ventura Government Center, 2 person show with artist Theodore Svenningsen
2014 Patterns, Ventura County Arts Council Exhibit, Ventura, CA
Ventura College Faculty Exhibition,Gallery 2, Ventura College, Ventura, CA
Photography Invitational, New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura, CA
2012 New York Photo Festival Invitational,New York, NY
Simply, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO
It’s a Thin Line Between Love and Hate,United Photo Industries, New York, NY
2010 The Photographers- Optical Allusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Universes- Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Aftershock LA- Art Auction to benefit Build Change, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
2009 News of the World-Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Pieces of Heaven-Art of Elysium Charity Auction, Christie’s, Beverly Hills, CA
2007 All In: Juried Art Exhibition-Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
Forever- California Institute of the Arts MFA Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Anywhere/Nowhere-Gallery 2102, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Perspectives, Curator-student photography exhibit, The Art Gallery @ GCC
2018 The View from Here, Curator-student photography exhibit, The Art Gallery @ GCC
2017 Captured, Curator-student photography exhibit, The Art Gallery @ GCC
2016 Art Through the Lens, Curator-student photography exhibit, The Art Gallery @ GCC
2014 The View From Here, Curator- student photography exhibit, Ventura, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Self Published The Current State of Things through a Kickstarter campaign
2008 Rambler Magazine, Vol. 5 #1, Illustration artwork
2007 Rambler Magazine, Vol 4 #6, Illustration artwork
2006 Rambler Magazine, Vol. 3 #2, Illustration artwork
2004 Rambler Magazine, Vol. 1 #4, Cover artwork
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014-present Associate Professor of Photography, Glendale College
2007-2014 Adjunct Associate Professor of Media Arts, Los Angeles City College
2007-2014 Photography Instructor, Adjunct Ventura College
2013 Photography Instructor, Adjunct College of the Canyons
2009-2012 Photography Instructor, Adjunct Pasadena City College