Oliver Boberg was born in 1965 in Herten, Germany. He studied art history at the Universität Würzburg from 1985 to 1986 and painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg from 1986 to 1993. His early work consisted of hyperrealist painting, though he later switched to photography, developing a practice of building and painting architectural models and then photographing them in works such as Passage and Car Park (both 1999). This method placed him in the company of related sculptor-photographers such as James Casebere and Thomas Demand. More recently, Boberg has begun working with film and video. In Night Sites (2002), shown at L.A. Galerie in Frankfurt in September 2002, he exhibited atmospheric nighttime footage of a forest he had constructed, on 16 mm film transferred to DVD.

Since his first solo exhibition, at Galerie Paul Meier in Erlangen, Germany, in 1993, Boberg has shown at Paul Morris Gallery in New York (1999 and 2001), Angles Gallery in Los Angeles (2000), the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (2001), and the Centro de Fotografía de la Universidad de Salamanca in Spain (2002). He has also appeared in group shows such as True Fictions at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany (2002), and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002 and 2003). Boberg received the Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis für junge Künstler in 1997 and the Frankreich Stipendium des Bayerischen Staates from the Cité des Arts in Paris in 1998. He currently lives and works in Fürth, Germany.