Born in London, UK (1977), Oliver Payne now lives and works in Los Angeles, and studied at Kingston University of Fine Art, Kingston, UK.

Solo Exhibitions include OVERDUIN & CO., Los Angeles (2016), Elegant Code, Gavin Brown’s enterprise 291 Grand St, New York (2016), Imagination Station (Procedural Rhetoric), Herald St, London, UK (2015), Melanie Matranga / Oliver Payne organized by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Vavassori Milan, Milan, Italy (2015), Chill Out, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rome, Italy (2015), Chill Out, MOCAD, Detroit (2105), Everything All At Once Forever, Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, Japan (2015), Everything All At Once Forever, Aishonanzuka, Hong Kong, China (2015), 356 S. Mission Rd. (2014), Oliver Payne, Herald St., London, UK (2013), YOU CAN BE YOU, Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, Japan (2012).  

Recent Group Exhibitions include: Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 1 Life on Earth, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (Curated by Bob Nickas) (2017), K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Hong Kong and New York (2017), READYMADE, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Fred Fischli and Niels Olsen) (2017), War Games, Curated by Benjamin Godsill, Moran Bondaroff, Detroit, MI (2016), On the Immense and the Numberless, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016), X, curated by Sarah McCrory, Herald St, London, UK (2015). 

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