Oliver Wasow

Digital photographer Oliver Wasow received a B.A. in media studies from Hunter College in New York City in 1982. Wasow’s photographic images are displayed in a number of prominent collections worldwide and are included in the permanent collections of several museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Utilizing the limitless possibilities of digital technology Wasow’s imagination runs wild, concocting landscapes in which nature and culture meet in the world of cyberreality. Wasow collages and digitally manipulates a photographic archive of the man-made and the natural, of past and future, of tranquility and disaster. These surreal fusions of man and his creations are hauntingly disconcerting, suggesting a vision of the utopian dream gone awry. One is lured into each fantastic image reveling in the visual sensation while detecting a sense of dissonance and incongruity.
Wasow combines his own photographs with appropriated images seamlessly melding them into self-sustaining works. His digital creations present a surrogate world in which ones memory is jarred by images once familiar and comfortable appearing hyperreal.
Oliver Wasow is currently represented by the Kathleen Cullen Gallery in New York City. He has had a number of one person exhibitions, including shows at the Janet Borden Gallery, Tom Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Artforum, ArtNews and The New York Times.