 In 2002, "The Art of Nathan Oliveira" opened, a major traveling retrospective of his work organized by the San Jose Museum of Art and guest curated by Peter Selz.The exhibition was accompanied by a monograph, "Nathan Oliveira," by Selz, with an introduction by Susan Landauer and an essay by Joann Moser, published by the University of California Press.Oliveira arrived with his family in San Francisco after World War II and graduated from San Francisco's George Washington High School.