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Oliver Weiss’ work specializes in mixed-media collage, digital art, ink drawings, silkscreen prints, and acrylic on canvas and paper. Having worked simultaneously as both an illustrator and an artist over three decades, his work has been exhibited worldwide and appeared in thousands of books, magazines, and newspapers.

Collaborators include The New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Penguin Random House, DER SPIEGEL, Scientific American, Johns Hopkins University, CBS, Rowohlt, The Christian Science Monitor, and DIE ZEIT. >DOWNLOAD MY RESUME

  • 2023 First Prize, “Meefisch” Award for Best Children’s Book in the
    German language (Die Öblings kommen! / The Öblings Are Coming!)
  • 2022 Federal Government for Culture and Media artist fellowship
  • 2021 German Society for Art artist fellowship
  • 2021 Collage-style children’s book (Wie die Mathematik in die Welt kam /
    How Mathematics Came to Be) after a poem by Rainer Kirsch (Eulenspiegel)
  • 2014 First painted furniture projects
  • 2014 “200 Best Artists worldwide”, Lürzer’s Archive
  • 2012 First silkscreen prints
  • 2012 European Newspaper Award of Excellence
  • 2012 Full-page portrait, Gruner+Jahr
  • 2011–14 Lived mostly in New York City
    (Green Card/“Extraordinary Ability in the Arts” visa)
  • 2011 Judge, 3×3 Magazine annual, New York
  • 2011 Two-page portrait in Novum magazine
  • 2010 Interviewed by 3×3 Magazine, New York
  • 2008 Full-page portrait in Handelsblatt newspaper (“Head of the Week”)
  • 2008 Grand prize, Oktoberfest poster design competition, City of Munich
  • 2008 Second prize, Year of Mathematics art competition
    (Berlin Academy of Sciences)
  • 2007 TV documentary by DER SPIEGEL featuring Oliver Weiss at work
  • 2001 Large-scale collage work, acrylic on paper, New York
  • 1999 First printed work (linoprints)
  • 1999 Grand design prize, German Bar Association, Cologne
  • 1998 First large-scale acrylic paintings on canvas and paper
  • 1996 Design prize, German Food Association, Düsseldorf
  • 1994 Grand prize, Congress on Racism and Human Rights, Marburg
  • 1994 Special prize, Satyrykon, Legnickie Centrum Kultury, Legnica