ALEX O'NEAL

BIOGRAPHY

Born Starkville, Mississippi 1957

Lives in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

1985     

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA

1979     

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

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

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