Education and Teaching
Oliveira graduated from San Francisco's George Washington High School. He studied at the California College of the Arts in Oakland where he earned a BFA in 1951 and an MFA in 1952. While attending CCAC he took an eight week summer course in painting at Mills College taught by the German Expressionist Max Beckmann. After graduation Oliveira taught art at several colleges, including the California College of the Arts, The California School of Fine Arts (now The San Francisco Art Institute) The University of Chicago, UCLA and Stanford University.
- 1952–53 Printmaking Instructor, The California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 1952-53 Watercolor Instructor, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
- 1955–56 Chair of Graphic Arts, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
- 1961-62 Visiting Professor in Painting, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1962-63 Visiting Professor in Studio Art, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1963-64 Visiting Professor in Studio Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
- 1964–96 Professor of Studio Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
During his Stanford years Oliveira held summer positions as a visiting artist in Colorado and Hawaii. Nathan Oliveira also served as a member of the Honorary Board of Humane Society Silicon Valley in Milpitas, California from 2007 until his death in 2010.
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