Sex / Male

Year of birth / 1947

Website / www.oliverwhitehead.net/

Oliver Whitehead born 1947 in England has lived and worked in Helsinki, Finland since 1971. He has exhibited in Finland and abroad. He was also the director of the Media department in the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki from 1991-97.

Whitehead is one of those versatile contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary production and many-sided approach to art is defies easy, reductive categorizations. When it comes to the choice of artistic means of expression, he has been frequently characterized as one of the few 'unpredictable' in the Finnish art scene, where he has been active since the early '70's.

For Whitehead, any medium that comes to hand and can be applied to his respective needs is practicable: he moves comfortably within painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, film and video, often applying a combination of the techniques.

More recently he has begun to work with live experimental video projections and also in cooperation with music bands.