Fran O'Neill

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     #EOFYWest 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