Ricardo de Oliveira is a Brazilian-born artist living and working in New York. His work has been shown in various New York galleries such as Nicole Klagsbrun, Tanya Bonakdar, American Fine Arts, Pat Hearn Gallery, and Sara Meltzer, as well as in Europe at Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Galerie Air-de-Paris, Paris, and Galerie Phillipe Rizzo, Paris.

In 1995, the artist took part in Campo at the Arsenale, an exhibit curated by Francesco Bonami, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Venice Biennale. Traveling through the Landsmuseum, Innsbruck, Malmoe Konstmuseum, Malmoe, and Fondazione Sandretto Re-Rebaudengo, Turin. His work has also been featured at the Wiener Secession, Vienne, and at Le Magasin-Centre de Art Contemporarie, Grenoble.

Reviews and feature articles have been published in Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Flash Art, and Camera Austria.