Dan Oliver

I was born in Ripon, Wisconsin and spent much of my childhood outdoors with the Boy Scouts or visiting my Grandparents in Waupaca, Wisconsin. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting.

After college, I moved to Chicago to study improv comedy at iO and The Second City, where I performed in theatre and film for over a decade before moving to Los Angeles.

While in Los Angeles, my love for oil painting erupted in a new environment. Endless Summer days spent painting in my studio flowed out of me as abstract art liberated my spirit. Being self-taught gave me the freedom to create from intuition while utilizing my improv experience to create works of art in the moment.

Oil painting became my obsession that Summer in my small East Hollywood studio. It was a way to cope with life, trauma & pain, as well as further explore the emotional scale and the concepts of neuroscience and positive phycology.

I currently create my art in Ripon, WI. As a full time creative, I also freelance as an actor, producer and writer. I love gourmet vegan food, coffee and wine.

My art is about connection, creativity and expression. The subject matter ranges from nature, literature ...

In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting. The Museum of Modern Art.

University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. BFA Acting. Cum Laude.

Study Abroad: Culinary Journalism, the food and wine of Greece.

Positive Psychology: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Online Course)

Graduate alumni of The Second City Training Center Chicago.
Graduate alumni of iO Chicago.
Graduate alumni of UCB West LA.

Selected works displayed alongside core group of "The Intro" at de Plume Gallery in East Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Curators Voice Art Projects Miami: COVID 19. THE ART OF ISOLATION/SURVEY 1

Pride Perspectives, The Minimalists by Dan Oliver, hosted by Opensea at Canvas 3.0 within Oculus World Trade Center, NYC. 2023.