Oliver Evans has worked at the intersection of gallery directorship and artistic practice for nearly two decades. He completed a BA in Textiles at Goldsmiths College in 2004 and an MA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2013, and has acted as a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture.

His own practice and research use analogue film and found imagery to attend to specific architectural settings and landscapes while considering the language of display. Sequences of images are phrased into spatial configurations, gesturing towards a documentary instinct and formal enquiry.

In 2023, he co-founded lo with Luís M. Araújo, an experimental publishing project that transforms artists’ research into new material forms. Their publication KIT with Fiona Connor is held in the collections of the V&A and Tate, London, and CCS Bard, New York.

He is Senior Director and Partner at Maureen Paley, one of London’s foremost contemporary art galleries, a role he has held since 2014. Working with an international range of established and emerging practices, he helps shape the programme and foster the careers of the artists it represents.

Alongside this, he holds board positions at three non-profit organisations: DACS (Design and Artists Copyright Society), which protects and manages artists’ rights and royalties; The Showroom, London, a contemporary art space committed to socially engaged forms of cultural production; and Arts Collective, Northampton, a developing civic institution that places artistic practice at the centre of regional cultural life.