Associate Professor Michael Oatman has been recognized by Metroland News, a capital-region news source, as #1 of “The Capital Region’s 10 Most Significant Visual Artists of the Past 30 Years” for his globally exhibited drawings, collages, and installations, which integrate thousands of found, modified and handmade components, including artifacts of material culture, painting, drawing, video, and food.  These architectural ‘unvironments’ have been installed at museums, public spaces and private homes. His installations are ‘context-specific’, and demand from him a total immersion into physical location, sonic/haptic realms, local history and the personal stories of those he encounters while working. He has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad.

Oatman received his BFA from RISD, and his MFA from the University at Albany.  He has taught at Harvard, UVM, UAlbany St. Michael’s College and Vermont College.  He has been a visiting critic at RISD from 1986 to the present.  He has been a faculty member in the School of Architecture at Renssealer since 1999.

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