Oliver Beer valuation
British artist, trained as a composer, who makes buildings, vessels and objects sing, and paints with sound.
Oliver Beer was born in 1985, trained in musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music in London, studied art at the Ruskin School at Oxford and cinema theory at the Sorbonne, and lives and works in London and Paris.
What a work by Oliver Beer is worth
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Bio
Oliver Beer was born in 1985, trained in musical composition at the Academy of Contemporary Music in London, studied art at the Ruskin School at Oxford and cinema theory at the Sorbonne, and lives and works in London and Paris. His performances, films, installations, paintings and sculpture reveal the hidden acoustic life of rooms, vessels and bodies. In the Resonance Project, begun in 2007, singers find the natural note of a space until the building resonates with them, from the Sydney Opera House and the Palais de Tokyo to a hammam in Istanbul and the Brighton sewers. Vessel Orchestra, made in 2019 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gathered hollow objects from the museum's collection, chosen for their natural pitch, into a single playable instrument. His Two-Dimensional Sculptures slice personal objects, musical instruments and family heirlooms among them, and reassemble them flat in resin, and his Resonance Paintings are made by playing music through a loudspeaker under a canvas scattered with dry pigment, so that the harmonies draw their own forms.
The Resonance Paintings, the resin sculptures and works on paper make up most of what can change hands. The pigment surfaces of the paintings are delicate, and the resin works need protection from scratches and from direct sun. A work's series, date and provenance through Thaddaeus Ropac, his gallery since 2013, are the reference points.
London, Oxford and the Resonance Project
He has shown at the Met Breuer and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Château de Versailles, and the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and was in British Art Show 9.
He has held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Center, the Sydney Opera House and the Fondation Hermès, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris gave him an exhibition in 2025.
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