Nathan Oliveiria

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Nathan Oliveira (born December 19, 1928) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. He is a celebrated and long-standing member of the art community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a painter who has lived in that area all his life, and is recently retired from a long teaching career at Stanford University.  As an artist, he came into national prominence in 1959 when he was included in the New York Museum of Modern Art ’s New Images of Man, the exhibition that heralded a new life for figurative art after a period of almost total dominance by Abstract Expressionism.

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