ALEX O'NEAL
BIOGRAPHY
Born Starkville, Mississippi 1957
Lives in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
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1985 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA |
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1979 |
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2010- Festival International d’Art Singulier, Aubagne, France 2009, 2007- Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago 2005 - Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson 2000- Fayerweather Art Gallery, University of Virginia 1998 - Huntingdon College Art Gallery, Montgomery, AL; Wright Gallery, Delta State University, MS 1997- Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville 1994- Municipal Gallery, Jackson, MS 1989- Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles 1986- Illinois Center, Chicago 1984- Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2009 - ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL: THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, Curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art; Linda Warren Gallery booth, ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 - THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 - RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margar0 2006 - SALTONSTALL ARTISTS SURVEY, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr; ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center 2005 - PROJECT DIVERSITY, BRIC/Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; ARTCHICAGO, Butler Park 2004 - THE MELTING, Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia ; TELL ME A STORY OF A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ ; A SLOW READ, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; SIX NEW YORK ARTISTS, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago; SEEN & UNSEEN, Broadway Gallery, New York 2003 - ANNUAL EXHIBITION, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington 2002 - ART AT STEEPLETOP, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 2001 - ART CONTEMPORANI DE MUNTANYA, Universitat de Lleida, Plaça de Siurana , Lleida, Spain 1999 - LEST WE FORGET, Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL 1996- RED CLAY SURVEY BIENNIAL, Huntsville Museum of Art, AL 1995 - CONFESSIONS, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta 1994 - ALEX O’NEAL AND JAN HANKINS, P. S. 122, New York 1989 - NEW AMERICAN TALENT, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX |
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
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2009 - Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France; Byrdcliffe Art Colony Residency, Woodstock, NY 2008 - Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL (Also 1995) 2006 - Centre d’Art i Natura Residency, Farrera de Pallars, Spain (Also 1996) 2004 - Klitgaarden Residency, Skagen, Denmark; Saltonstall Foundation Residency, Ithaca, NY 2001 - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Millay Colony Residency, Austerlitz, NY; Dorland Mountain Arts Colony Residency, Temecula, CA (Also 1996, 1999) 2000 - Fundación Valparaíso Residency, Almería, Spain 1999 - John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Painting, New York 1998 - Individual Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville 1997- Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA 1995 - Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 1987-88 - National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship |