Oil Frontiers
       
     
Sacrifice Zones
       
     
Trojan Horse Demonstration at The British Museum, London
       
     
De Money
       
     
Smoking Pipe (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)
       
     
Gas Flare (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)
       
     
Season’s Greetings
       
     
Abundance Undermined
       
     
Untitled
       
     
Untitled
       
     
Bird Mired in Oil on the Beach, East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, June 3, 2010
       
     
Ashland Belle Helene Plantation, Acquired by Shell Chemical
       
     
Human Cost
       
     
Oil Drum Map of the World #1
       
     
Lips Oil Cans Exhibition ‘Lipstick and Agapanthus’
       
     
De money series no. 1
       
     
Gulf Oil Spill
       
     
Fowl Language
       
     
Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, Louisiana
       
     
Home, Destrehan, Louisiana
       
     
Playing on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo
       
     
Neighbors playing board games under a sky lit by gas flares
       
     
Wealth of Nations
       
     
Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana
       
     
Niger Delta: A Documentary
       
     
Oil Spill 3
       
     
 Fishing in Lake Maracaibo
       
     
Oiled Dragonfly
       
     
Oil Frontiers
       
     
Oil Frontiers

Global oil and gas assemblage facilitate economies of violence that ravage habitats and trap communities. Oil is a subject charged with political, cultural, and social implication, and Oil Frontiers seeks to unearth the instabilities, risks, and contradictions of this industry with jarring and poignant artwork.

Learn about the gallery by cycling through the selected pieces on the right.

Sacrifice Zones
       
     
Sacrifice Zones

Nathaniel St. Clair

2021

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Trojan Horse Demonstration at The British Museum, London
       
     
Trojan Horse Demonstration at The British Museum, London

BP or not BP?, est. 2012

2020

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De Money
       
     
De Money

George Osodi, Nigerian, born 1974

2009

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Smoking Pipe (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)
       
     
Smoking Pipe (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)

George Osodi, Nigerian, born 1974

2007

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Gas Flare (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)
       
     
Gas Flare (from the series Oil Rich Niger Delta)

George Osodi, Nigerian, born 1974

2006

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Season’s Greetings
       
     
Season’s Greetings

Banksy, British, born 1974

2008

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Abundance Undermined
       
     
Abundance Undermined

Hannah Chalew, American

2019

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Untitled
       
     
Untitled

Charlie Riedel, American, born 1961

2010

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Untitled
       
     
Untitled

Barbara Fraser

2016

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Bird Mired in Oil on the Beach, East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, June 3, 2010
       
     
Bird Mired in Oil on the Beach, East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, June 3, 2010

Charlie Riedel, American

2010

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Ashland Belle Helene Plantation, Acquired by Shell Chemical
       
     
Ashland Belle Helene Plantation, Acquired by Shell Chemical

Richard Misrach, American, born 1949

1998

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Human Cost
       
     
Human Cost

Liberate Tate, United Kingdom

2011

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Oil Drum Map of the World #1
       
     
Oil Drum Map of the World #1

Cal Lane, Canadian

2008

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Lips Oil Cans Exhibition ‘Lipstick and Agapanthus’
       
     
Lips Oil Cans Exhibition ‘Lipstick and Agapanthus’

Sokari Douglas Camp, British-Nigerian, born 1958

2018

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De money series no. 1
       
     
De money series no. 1

George Osodi, Nigerian, born 1974

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Gulf Oil Spill
       
     
Gulf Oil Spill

Mary Edna Fraser

2010

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Fowl Language
       
     
Fowl Language

Paul Jackson, American

Circa 2010

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Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, Louisiana
       
     
Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, Louisiana

Richard Misrach, American

1998 (print 2012)

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Home, Destrehan, Louisiana
       
     
Home, Destrehan, Louisiana

Richard Misrach, American

1998 (print 2012)

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Playing on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo
       
     
Playing on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, Venezuelan

2023

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Neighbors playing board games under a sky lit by gas flares
       
     
Neighbors playing board games under a sky lit by gas flares

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, Venezuelan

2023

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Wealth of Nations
       
     
Wealth of Nations

Victor Ehikhamenor, Nigerian

2015

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Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana
       
     
Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana

Richard Misrach, American

1998 (print 2012)

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Niger Delta: A Documentary
       
     
Niger Delta: A Documentary

Zina Saro-Wiwa, British-Nigerian

2015

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Oil Spill 3
       
     
Oil Spill 3

Katherine DuBose Fuerst, American

Oil Spill 3, 2011

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 Fishing in Lake Maracaibo
       
     
Fishing in Lake Maracaibo

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, Venezuelan

2023

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Oiled Dragonfly
       
     
Oiled Dragonfly

Gerald Herbert, American

2010

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