BORN: Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
LIVES & WORKS: Cheshunt, Australia & regularly travels to New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023: Stides, Nov 2019, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
2022: Left Turn, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Subliminal, Nov 2019, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
Changing Tides, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Change Rooms in Your Mind for a Day, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Divergence, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Next Move, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
Exuberance, BMG ART, Adelaide, Australia
The Stage @ The Emporium, via RENEW Newcastle, Australia
Moving Through, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Abstraction, Sublime Gallery @ DeLo, Jacksonville, FL
Sensing Place, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Magical Thinking, CUAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Fran O'Neill, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015 Annex Space, Greenwich Art Society, CT
Steel Plant, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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
Scared Chow Gallery, NY, NY
2009 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2007 Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Metaspace, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
Material Presence, KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck, NY
Spring Fling, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Winter Group Show, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
#EOFY, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Of Colour and Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Vital Presence, 1GAPGallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by David Cohen
2019 Poetic Symbol, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Color Moves, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Surface Spectrum, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 East Australian Current, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
Christmas Show, BMG Art, Adelaide, Australia
High Summer, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Tendencies: Works by Contemporary Abstract Painters, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Call & Response; Reinterpreting MOCA Jacksonville’s Permanent Collection, MoCA Jacksonville, FL
2017 Yellow Chair, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
Bands of Color; The Use of Line in Contemporary Art, MoCA Jacksonville, FL
Fresh Produce, Hathaway Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
The Other Side of Things: Women of Abstraction, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
POP UP - Nic Graham Interiors, Sydney, Australia
Translucent, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Flat Files, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Christmas Show, BMG Art, Adelaide, Australia
Sensing Place, Newburgh, NY
A Cup of Sugar, Lorimoto, Bushwick, NY
Confronting the Canvas, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Jacksonville, FL
An Occasional Dream, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
All Tomorrows Parties, Hathaway David, Atlanta, GA
Drishti - A Concentrated Gaze, 1280 Avenue of the Americas, New York , NY
Sideshow on Mars, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
2015 Wanderer, Pluspace, Coventry at Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, England
Checkered History: The Grid in Art & Life, Outpost, Bushwick, NY
Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Bushwick, NY
Eating Painting, 308 at 156 Project Art Space, New York, NY
Thrice Legendary, or Forever Thens, Centotto, Bushwick, NY
Pure Paint for NOW People, Weber University, UT
Family Ties, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
A Weekend at the Old Gem, 695 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY
New Work City, Momenta Art, curated by Julie Torres, Brooklyn, NY
2014 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Painting Center, NY
Aggregate: Six, Long Island City, NY
Form and Fracture, Paul W Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY
City as Subject, Bethune Gallery, NY; Curated by Xico Greenwald
Second Family, 2 Rivington, NY; Curated by Julie Torres
Family Style, formerly Pocket Utopia, NY; Curated by Julie Torres
Never Mind the Bollock’s; Summer Invitational - Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
Indexical Mark, Life on Mars, Bushwick, NY
Painting Invitational - Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah, KY
2013 Scale, Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, NY
Grand Haven Art Walk - Grand Haven, MI
Art Prize - Grand Rapids, MI
Flight from Nature, National Arts Club, NY, NY
Aquarelle, Dickson State University Gallery, ND
2012 First Street Gallery, MFA Summer Show, NY
Gary Snyder Project Space; Brooklyn College MFA Exhibit – NY
Wet Paint, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL
2011 Cluster Bomb, Bowery Poetry Club, NY
Double Spaced - Brooklyn College
Charles Lahati Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009 Four heads, Governor’s Island, NY
Perimeter Gallery, Belfast Maine
2007 Painting in New York, 46 Warren St, NY, NY
Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, Maine
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005 Liman Studio Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
VIDEOS:
2015, March Gorky’s Granddaughter - http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2015/03/fran-oneill-march-2015.html
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
AWARDS:
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
REVIEWS:
Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review (“X-Marks the Spot; NYSS Alumni Exhibition): https://hudsonreview.com/2018/12/at-the-galleries-35/#.XHCWytF7mHq
Carrie McCarthy, Cultural Flanerie, Aug, 2017: https://culturalflanerie.com/2017/08/18/fran-oneills-next-move/
David Cohen, Art Critical: http://www.artcritical.com/2017/01/31/fran-oneill-david-schweitzer/
Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review, Vol LXIX, NO.3 - Autumn 2016, pages 477-8
EU Jacksonville - Erin Thursby, July 24, 2016: http://eujacksonville.com/2016/07/24/color-me-abstract-confronting-the-canvas-at-moca-jacksonville/
The Florida Times Union, Charlie Patton, June 10, 2016: http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/arts/2016-06-10/story/mocas-confronting-canvas-presents-work-six-contemporary-women
MOCA Jacksonville: http://mocajacksonville.unf.edu/blog/Fran-O-Neill-never-planned-to-be-an-abstract-painter/
MOCA Jacksonville: https://mocajacksonville.unf.edu/exhibitions/featured/Confronting-the-Canvas/
Karen Wilkin, Hudson Review, Vol LXVIII, NO.1 - Spring 2015, pages 105-6
New Criterion - Gallery Chronicle: James Panero; New Criterion, February 2015: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-8086
Art Critical - In Hot Pursuit: Fran O’Neill at The New York Studio School, Jonathon Goodman, 28 September, 2012: http://www.artcritical.com/2012/09/28/fran-oneill/
Too Much Art; Mario Naves, September 2012: http://mnaves.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/fran-oneill-at-the-new-york-studio-school/
Art Slant; A Sacred Legacy, Nancy Jones – May 31, 2010: http://www.artslant.com/mia/articles/show/16730
Art Critical, David Cohen, April 10, 2009: http://www.artcritical.com/2009/04/10/fran-oneil-at-john-davis-gallery/
Hudson Review: Karen Wilkin, http://hudsonreview.com/new/issues/?c=summer-2011-vol-lxiv-no-2
BLOGS:
https://thenewschoolart.org/blog/featured-artist-may-2015-fran-oneill/
https://gallerytravels.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/fran-oneill-studio-visit.html
http://www.painters-table.com/blog/eating-painting
http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/the-indexical-mark-life-on-mars_23.html
http://kioskderdemokratie.blogspot.de/2015/04/shimmer-fran-oneill-usa.html
http://tnsoart.com/featured-artist-may-2015-fran-oneill/
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS/WEB:
ArtSlant – interview with Nancy Jones: http://www.artslant.com/mia/articles/show/16730
Verdad Magaznine: http://www.verdadmagazine.org/vol12/gallery/oneill.html
Artcritical: http://www.artcritical.com/listing/fran-oneill/
Joshua Abelow: http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/08/fran-oneill.html
Painting in NY: http://www.paintinginny.com/Fourth
Repetti Studio: http://artcards.cc/newyork/show/37384-Grounded-Repetti-Studios
John Davis: http://www.johndavisgallery.blogspot.com/
Nathan Abels:
http://nathanabels.blogspot.com/2009/08/cate-blanchett-wearing-alexander.html
Brooklyn College:
http://brooklyncollegemfa.wordpress.com/mfa-program/2010-2012/fran-oneill/
http://brooklyncollegemfa.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/double-spaced/
Joan Mitchell Foundation:
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/painter-sculptors/2007
NYC Art Now:
http://www.nycartnow.com/post/20364384042/grounded-five-abstract-painters-at-repetti