Olivier Dubois-Cherrier

French-born Olivier Dubois-Cherrier is a visual artist who expresses himself through Land art, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. These last 20 years he has lived in diverse countries with a coastline, such as Guadeloupe (FWI), Barcelona (Spain), Dominican Republic, and Miami. He now lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, a desert place where water is rare. A counter-place could be said at first sight; but for the nomadic Caribbean crossed origins artist who learned how to place his roots in himself, settling his home in a wide and empty landscape was a necessity. He likes to think about the notion of the island in term of geopolitical space and of philosophic and psychological state. The natural limits of the island such as banks, horizons, oppositions and demarcations became for this artist metaphors of the incapacity for the modern man to live harmoniously.

For O. Dubois-Cherrier who refuses any idea of environmental or genetic determinism, the full responsibility of the human being cannot be dissociated of his condition. Without judging, because aware of being part of it, the artist tries through his working process to understand the reasons of the contemporary nonsenses and mainly try to draw a new paradigm generatin...

Now: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- MFA, 3 Dimensional Art and Alternative Media Expected Graduation 2019

2016: Miami International University of Art & Design, Miami, FL
- BFA, Visual Arts

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2015: Till Now Everything Is Fine, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2014: Till Now Everything Is Fine, Arsh Center, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2012: Between Now And Later, Pool Art Fair, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2011: Sentidos Mezclados, French Embassy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2011: Sens Mêlés, Ets. Claude Blandin, Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe
2010: En Toute Intimité, Miro’s art gallery, Cabarete, Dominican Republic
2007: Consciente vs Inconsciente, Espacio Tuset, Barcelona, Spain

Group Exhibitions/Activities:
2017: Desert Island, Coachella Valley Art Center, Indio, CA, U.S.A.
2016: MFA Semester One, L. Rombach Gallery, UA School of Art, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
2016: Where We Met, Exploded View Gallery, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
2014: Lucky You 7, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2014: Latin Views Biennial, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, U.S.A.
2014: Encounters, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece
2012: Latin Views Biennial, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, U.S.A.
2010: FIART (Fería Internacional de Arte), Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2009: Apartamento De Verano, H+O Apartgallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.