Oliver Osborne (B. 1985)

London-based artist Oliver Osborne is best known for his playful, deadpan compositions that isolate figurative photographic or cartoon imagery against meticulously painted abstract backgrounds. Mixing genres, styles and media, his works appropriate found visual fragments, divorcing them from their original context and placing them within decorative painterly voids. Born in Edinburgh, Osborne studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 2012 he was named one of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, participating in exhibitions at the ICA in London and Copperas Hill Building in Liverpool, and appeared in the 2014 Artists To Watch exhibition at The M Building in Miami.