Adriana
Oliver
Adriana Oliver, a Contemporary artist from Barcelona. Inspired by film and photography, Oliver depicts modern relationships through flat, Pop-inspired portraits. If you’re looking for original Adriana Oliver prints and editions for sale or would like to sell, request a complimentary valuation and browse our network’s most in-demand works.
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Biography
Adriana Oliver is an innovative voice in the Contemporary Art scene, from Barcelona, Spain. Drawing inspiration from 1950s and 60s film stills, Oliver employs flat areas of colour to produce Pop-inspired intimate moments. She uses a blend of monochromatic tones and muted colours, highlighting quiet, yet poignant moments of human emotion in her figurative compositions.
Her artistic journey began with a focus on photography, where she developed her interest in capturing human emotion. This background in photography influences her current painting style, as she translates still images into flat, dynamic portraits. Over the years, Oliver has developed a visual language that engages with themes of anonymity and identity.
Oliver's work has been showcased in galleries and exhibitions, including Plan X Gallery in Milan. Through her prints and paintings, she invites audiences to reflect on the relationships between gender, identity and body language.
Oliver's artistic career has seen significant milestones, beginning with her transition from photography to painting. Her early works focused on capturing candid moments, but as she developed her style, Oliver began to experiment with the flatness of form and the use of colour. This evolution led to her signature style—Pop-inspired portraits that often omit facial features, instead employing body language to communicate the human emotion.
In her printmaking, Oliver employs bold, simplified forms that nod to her cinematic influences. Her 2021 screenprint Stay exemplifies this, featuring an anonymous figure rendered deep black, muted brown, and stark white. The subject's face is left featureless. The striking yet ambiguous subject reflects the cinematic storytelling that defines Oliver’s work.
Throughout her career, Oliver has participated in exhibitions that highlight her contributions to Contemporary Art. In 2024, her solo show Another Sunset Goes By at Plan X presented reflection as an existential act, inviting viewers to engage with moments of introspection. Each painting captures a pivotal moment where subjects reassess their values and sense of self.
Taking inspiration from cinematic frames, Oliver's compositions are constructed to focus on reflective emotional moments. Her faceless subjects are symbols of shared human experiences, inviting viewers to see themselves and their own experiences in them.