EDUCATION
2012 MFA - Brooklyn College
2001 Certificate - New York Studio School (NYSS)
1997 Post Grad - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1994 BFA - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Crossing, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, VIC
2024 A Certain Kind of Light, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Stides, Nov 2019, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD
2022 Left Turn, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Subliminal, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD
2019 Changing Tides, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2019 Change Rooms in Your Mind for a Day, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Divergence, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Next Move, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD
2017 Exuberance, BMG ART, Adelaide, SA
2017 The Stage @ The Emporium, via RENEW Newcastle, Australia
2017 Moving Through, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017 Abstraction, Sublime Gallery @ DeLo, Jacksonville, FL
2017 Sensing Place, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Magical Thinking, CUAC, Salt Lake City, UT
2016 Fran O'Neill, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015 Annex Space, Greenwich Art Society, CT
2015 Steel Plant, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2015 Painting Her Way Home, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Art Around the Park, Morristown, NJ
2013 Sussex Coast College, Hastings, England, UK
2012 New York Studio School, NY, NY
2011 Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine
2011 Scared Chow Gallery, NY, NY
2009 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2007 Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Surface Envy, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Metaspace, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
2022 Material Presence, KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck, NY
2022 Spring Fling, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Winter Group Show, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
2021 #EOFY, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC
2021 Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne, VIC
2020 Vital Presence, 1GAPGallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by David Cohen
2019 Poetic Symbol, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Color Moves, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Surface Spectrum, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 East Australian Current, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, QLD
2018 Christmas Show, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA
2018 High Summer, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Abstract Tendencies: Works by Contemporary Abstract Painters, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2018 Call & Response; Reinterpreting MOCA Jacksonville's Permanent Collection, MoCA Jacksonville, FL
2017 Yellow Chair, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Bands of Color; The Use of Line in Contemporary Art, MoCA Jacksonville, FL
2017 Fresh Produce, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017 The Other Side of Things: Women of Abstraction, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2017 POP UP - Nic Graham Interiors, Sydney, NSW
2017 Translucent, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2017 Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2017 Flat Files, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Christmas Show, BMG Art, Adelaide, SA
2016 Sensing Place, Newburgh, NY
2016 A Cup of Sugar, Lorimoto, Bushwick, NY
2016 Confronting the Canvas, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Jacksonville, FL
2016 An Occasional Dream, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
2016 All Tomorrows Parties, Hathaway David, Atlanta, GA
2016 Drishti - A Concentrated Gaze, 1280 Avenue of the Americas, New York , NY
2016 Sideshow on Mars, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
2015 Wanderer, Pluspace, Coventry at Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, UK
2015 Checkered History: The Grid in Art & Life, Outpost, Bushwick, NY
2015 Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Bushwick, NY
2015 Eating Painting, 308 at 156 Project Art Space, New York, NY
2015 Thrice Legendary, or Forever Thens, Centotto, Bushwick, NY
2015 Pure Paint for NOW People, Weber University, UT
2015 Family Ties, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 A Weekend at the Old Gem, 695 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY
2015 New Work City, Momenta Art, curated by Julie Torres, Brooklyn, NY
2014 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Painting Center, NY
2014 Aggregate: Six, Long Island City, NY
2014 Form and Fracture, Paul W Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY
2014 City as Subject, Bethune Gallery, NY; Curated by Xico Greenwald
2014 Second Family, 2 Rivington, NY; Curated by Julie Torres
2014 Family Style, formerly Pocket Utopia, NY; Curated by Julie Torres
2014 Never Mind the Bollock's; Summer Invitational - Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
2014 Indexical Mark, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
2014 Painting Invitational - Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah, KY
2013 Scale, Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, NY
2013 Grand Haven Art Walk - Grand Haven, MI
2013 Art Prize - Grand Rapids, MI
2013 Flight from Nature, National Arts Club, NY, NY
2013 Aquarelle, Dickson State University Gallery, ND
2012 First Street Gallery, MFA Summer Show, NY
2012 Gary Snyder Project Space; Brooklyn College MFA Exhibit - NY
2012 Wet Paint, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL
2011 Cluster Bomb, Bowery Poetry Club, NY
2011 Double Spaced - Brooklyn College
2011 Charles Lahati Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009 Four heads, Governor's Island, NY
2009 Perimeter Gallery, Belfast Maine
2007 Painting in New York, 46 Warren St, NY, NY
2011 Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine
2011 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005 Liman Studio Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2013 Acker Award - San Francisco division
2010 - 11 Shaw Award, Brooklyn College
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2000 Hohenberg Travel award, NYSS
2000 Rosalyn Edwards Scholarship, Pen & Brush Inc., New York
PUBLICATIONS
Mario Naves 'Now at the Galleries 'Everything in the World' and More', The New York Sun, March 2024
Miranda Hine 'Lemonade Letters to Art', April 2023
Karen Wilkin Hudson Review, Equity Gallery, Winter 2023
Riad Miah 'Two Coats of Paint', Nov 2022
Karen Wilkin Hudson Review (X-Marks the Spot; NYSS Alumni Exhibition)
Carrie McCarthy Cultural Flanerie, Aug, 2017
David Cohen Art Critical, Jan 2017
Karen Wilkin New Criterion, June 2017
Karen Wilkin Hudson Review, Vol LXIX, NO.3 - Autumn 2016, pages 477-8
Erin Thursby 'Colour me abstract: confronting the canvas at MOCA Jacksonville, July 2016
Charlie Patton The Florida Times Union, June 10, 2016
Jamie Desimone 'Fran O'Neill never planned to be an abstract painter', 2016
MOCA Jacksonville 'Confronting the canvas: Women of abstraction', 2016
Karen Wilkin Hudson Review, Vol LXVIII, NO.1 - Spring 2015, pages 105-6
James Panero Gallery Chronicle, New Criterion, February 2015
Jonathon Goodman 'In Hot Pursuit: Fran O'Neill at The New York Studio School', Art Critical, 28 September 2012
Mario Naves Too Much Art; September 2012
Nancy Jones Art Slant; A Sacred Legacy, May 31, 2010
David Cohen Art Critical, April 10, 2009
Karen Wilkin Hudson Review, Summer 2009