Meet the Artists

Tura Oliveira is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice is rooted in the sensual materiality and inescapable politics of cloth. They make paintings, narrative quilts, and sculptures that recall early Renaissance frescoes, internal organs, grotteschi, humanoid hybrids, egg sacs, and tropical creepers with tentacles outstretched. Deeply informed by the legacies of queer craft, science fiction, and Latin American textile art, Oliveira is invested in the interplay between marginalized identities, aesthetics, fictions, and material cultures. 

Tura Oliveira received their MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2023 they received the Dean’s Prize from the Yale School of Art, a public art commission from the city of New York, and the Abbey Award fellowship at the British School at Rome. They have received awards and fellowships from NYFA, BRIC, the Museum of Arts and Design, Wave Hill, Ars Nova, A.I.R Gallery, Yaddo, and the Tides Institute. They have shown in group exhibitions at spaces including Perrotin (NY), SPURS Gallery (Beijing), Palazzo Delle Esposizioni (Rome), BEERS (London), Good Mother (L.A), Baik + Khneysser (L.A), The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids), Van Doren Waxter, Lehman College Art Gallery, and 1969 (all NY). In 2024, they had two person shows at Yve Yang Gallery (NY) and Unosunove (Rome), and they have upcoming solo shows at Geary Contemporary (NY) and Boccanera Gallery (Milan).