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Amie Oliver is an American artist.

Education
Amie Oliver earned a B.A in art from Mississippi State University in 1982 and an M.F.A. in mixed-media graphics from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1984. Oliver spent seven weeks in the summer of 1980 in residence at the Oberpfalzer Kumnstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, an international exchange program of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She did post-graduate work at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in the fields of installation, crafts, and photography in 1988-1989. Other graduate studies were at the State University of New York at Brockport, where she studied in the Visual Studies Workshop with Keith Smith.

Teaching
She is an instructor at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. She has taught painting, drawing and mixed media for the MIS Degree and Studio Arts Foundation Program of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, has been a lecturer at John Tyler Community College, and an Associate Professor at Longwood College and Mississippi State University.

Exhibitions
In 1980 Oliver featured the female figure in her exhibition Heads or Tales at Coincidence Gallery in Richmond. "What isn't always clear in Oliver's art is whether by using the female motif as a central theme, she is critiquing societal values of women, both of the past and the present, or only reconfirming their role as objects? Either way, Oliver is successful in providing a voice, sometimes only in a whisper, to the solemn, stoic and silent form of she who is," said art critic Jenny ORamirez in Style Weekly in her critique "I am woman..." of the Heads or Tales show at Coincidence. She has been a repeat exhibitor in the Think Small biennial exhibitions of art smaller than 3" x 3" at Artspace Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.

Her solo exhibition Maps Planes and Water Marks was shown in 2016 at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her exhibitions at Artspace in Richmond, Virginia and 1708 Gallery include The French Connection which traveled to Artspace and 1708 in 2012. Her exhibition Angels and Infidels was shown at MOCA, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. In 2005 she curated Art as a Mother Tongue, an outreach exhibition at the Inn at Linden Row for 1708 Gallery.

Her online exhibitions and artist profiles include: In 2010 Oliver showed The Dharma Diaries, recent work on paper, panel and wood, at Artspace's Helena Davis Gallery at Plant Zero.

In 2016 her water-themed art was exhibited in the Richmond Times-Dispatch gallery.

Her exhibition Trail Signs was shown at 1708 Gallery in Richmond and then traveled to the Isaac Delgado Art Museum in New Orleans and the Meridian Museum of Art in Meridian, Mississippi.

Affiliations
Amie Oliver has served as curator for many 1708 Gallery satellite and on-site exhibitions. For the exhibition Seven Messengers: Selections from the Art Count Project, Oliver selected artists drawn from a database of Virginia visual artists compiled by 1708 Gallery and state agencies. She chose artists Todd Murphy, Joan Gaustad, Ben Pranger, Craig Pleasants, Kate Woodliff, Tom Nakashima and Aylene Fallah for the show at 1708.

She was featured in a VMFA Studio Faculty exhibition in 2007.

"She serves on the Board of Directors of 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and is on the Fellows Council of The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She served on the State Board of Directors for the YWCA of Mississippi while a college student.

Oliver is the proprietor and an artist at The Art Lab @ 2216 Hull St in the Manchester district of Richmond, Virginia. She shares her life with journalist, writer and actor Harry Kollatz, Jr

Awards and honors
She was given Mississippi State University's 2013 Distinguished Alumni Fellowship Award for the College of Architecture, Art & Design.