Oliver Wasow

Oliver Wasow is a fine art photographer currently living and working in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He received his bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and his master’s degree from the Transart Institute in Austria. His work is currently represented by Theodore Art Gallery in NYC.

Wasow has had several one-person exhibitions, including shows at the Josh Baer Gallery, Janet Borden Gallery, The Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Lousiana, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France.

His work has also been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as ‘Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  ‘Image World’ at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, and ‘The Photography of Invention’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

His photographs are included in several private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, Art in America and The New York Times.

Wasow has produced two books: Artist Unknown in 2007 and Friends, Enemies and Strangers in 2018. He has been the recipient of various grants and awards, including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1999 and, in 2000, his second New York State Council on the Arts Grant.