BIO
John J. O'Connor was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, and earned an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History and Criticism from Pratt Institute in 2000. He was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. O’Connor has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Residency, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Grants in painting and drawing. He has participated in residencies at MacDowell, Skowhegan, the Vermont Studio Center, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Artist-in-Residence Program, and Civitai AI.
O'Connor has exhibited internationally at The Lab (Ireland), Martin Asbæk Gallery (Denmark), Neue Berliner Räume (Germany), Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels), the Luohu District Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), and TW Fine Art (Australia), among others. In the United States, his work has been shown at the galleries and museums such as Andrea Rosen Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, White Columns, the Museum of Contemporary Art Baltimore, the Wellin Museum of Art, the Queens Museum, and the Tang Museum. His exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, Artforum, The Village Voice, Art Papers, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art in America.
O'Connor presented his work in conversation with Fred Tomaselli at the New Museum. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, Southern Methodist University, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. A catalogue spanning ten years of his practice was published featuring essays by Robert Storr, John Yau, and Rick Moody. O'Connor has taught at Princeton University, Pratt Institute, and New York University, and he currently serves as the Chair of the Visual and Studio Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College. He is also a member of the experimental art and technology collective, NonCoreProjector, and collaborates with writer Rick Moody in a project called Superspreaders.
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