Oliver Herring (born 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an experimental artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
When Ethyl Eichelberger committed suicide in 1991, Herring started knitting Mylar to pay respect to him.
Herring does not like the term act or actor because he believes the people end up contributing to his art and it becomes a collaboration.
These experiments consists of strangers he found who would dress in a white shirt, black pants and spit food dye out of their mouths into the air and back on their faces.
“Gloria”, one of his most famous sculptures, is of a girl leaning against a wall in a colorful flower dress holding her necklace.
Beginning in 2002 Herring organized a series of participatory improvisational art events known as TASK parties.