ROBYN O’NEIL An Unkindness 25 April 2019 – 1 June 2019
Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Over the past two decades, Robyn O’Neil has forged a body of work bound by a common theme: life can be difficult, foreboding, and fraught with challenge. Figures at war, cast in apocalyptic settings often described as landscapes from Hell, have personified these challenges, resulting in a signature thematic style for which O’Neil has become well known. An Unkindness appears, at first glance, to build upon this theme of despondency; close inspection reveals a new perspective, an optimistic one that promises to be as archetypal in O’Neil’s practice as the other.
Shades of black, gray and navy dominate the drawings of An Unkindness, where darkness reigns. We must reach further into the depths, the nooks and crannies of these renderings to see the light. There, we find traces of hopefulness and lightheartedness that are discoverable in a reference to a favorite childhood television show, the employment of primary colors in several drawings, and the pastel, pointillist ethereal scene contained in the right panel of the triptych, An Unkindness. O’Neil writes of the panel, “… my [work] also tends to explore how much I actually love the world around me. The entire right panel is… a heavenly scene. A place we would want to be.” It is this referential subtlety that informs the works of An Unkindness, showcasing the multi-layered aesthetic and ontological intentions of the artist.
Unsurprisingly, as a writer and avid reader, the titles of O’Neil’s drawings provide a window into the artist’s world and work. For instance, the exhibition was dubbed “an unkindness,” after the term used to reference a flock of ravens, and a title shared with the centerpiece triptych in which an ominous cloud of swirling ravens graces the middle panel. Other titles include the name of the actor who played the Sesame Street character Big Bird (For Carroll Spinney); the address of the home where O’Neil’s parents lived when her mother was pregnant with her (3136 Sheffield Street); the name of the Egyptian sun god (RA (Sandpaper Drawing)); and, a title partially shared with an Impressionist painting by Claude Monet (Impression Soleil Levant, Yesterday). What results are drawings that have been forged from a combined application of art historical knowledge, pop culture references, and snippets of the artist’s personal history.
Two such drawings that build upon O’Neil’s knowledge of art history are 1754 and The Cloudmakers, studies of clouds appropriated from paintings and drawings from various artistic epochs and movements. For over fifteen years, the artist has collected and classified an “endless” list of clouds and storms from art history, literature, film, music, and television with the intent of creating a “massive drawing that is essentially a storm created… from hundreds, possibly thousands of these researched clouds.” The drawings, 1754 and The Cloudmakers, each demonstrate the depth of this intended venture, illustrating a wide range of exemplars gleaned from the works of Henry Darger, Vija Celmins and Frederic Edwin Church. In the case of The Dissolution Documents: Air Quality Unhealthy, an ash gray, navy blue, and black cloud that was culled from a William Blake painting monumentally covers a quarter of the drawing’s façade. What ultimately converges in the multi-media drawings of An Unkindness is the sense of eruptive evolution, marking Robyn O’Neil’s plunge into a new phase of artistic process and development. The works provoke an aesthetic and thematic precariousness; oscillating between Heaven and Hell, optimism and pessimism, and the monochromatic and colorful, they are demonstrative of the uncertainty that accompanies everyday lived experience. In an era in which certainty and comfort are prized above all, O’Neil pushes viewers to think and perceive critically and carefully. Writing on her practice, O’Neil states, “There’s a mystery I tackle and I find it more challenging and engaging to chase the enigmatic through simple means.” O’Neil graciously chases those simple means in a pragmatic manner, demonstrating that the meaning and intention behind a work does not have to be shrouded in essentialist theories and political undertones. Rather, it can be more simply conveyed by naming a navy, yellow and black graphite and colored pencil drawing after the actor who played Big Bird on Sesame Street. ––Simek Shropshire
Installation View, 2019 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
The Dissolution Documents: Air Quality Unhealthy, 2018 Graphite, colored pencil and watercolor on paper 50 x 90 in. Sheet 54 x 94 in. Frame
Fences Go Falling, 2018 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 3/4 x 29 13/16 in. Sheet 25 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. Frame
Paul Benedict’s Primary Battle (No Numbers), 2019 Graphite, colored pencil and acrylic on paper 23 x 30 in. Sheet 25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in. Frame
RA (Sandpaper Drawing), 2018 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 22 1/4 x 30 in. Sheet 25 1/4 x 32 3/4 in. Frame
Installation View, 2019 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Previous page: An Unkindness (Triptych), 2019 Graphite, colored pencil and acrylic on paper 72 x 72 (C) in. / 72 x 38 1/16 (LR) in. Sheet 75 3/8 x 75 3/8 (C) in. / 75 3/8 x 41 1/2 (LR) in. Frame
An Unkindness (Triptych-left panel, detail), 2019
Both Pages: An Unkindness (Triptych-center panel, detail), 2019
Both Pages: An Unkindness (Triptych-right panel, detail), 2019
Installation View, 2019 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Call, 2018 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. Sheet 10 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. Frame
3136 Sheffield Street, 2018 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in. Sheet 11 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. Frame
1754, 2018 Graphite, colored pencil and watercolor on paper 9 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. Sheet 12 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. Frame
For Caroll Spinney, 2019 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 9 x 11 in. Sheet 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. Frame
A lot of things contributed, 2019 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 9 x 11 1/8 in. Sheet 11 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. Frame
The Cloudmakers, 2018 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 9 3/4 x 13 15/16 in. Sheet 12 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. Frame
The Nemesis Hypothesis, 2019 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 8 11/16 x 9 3/8 in. Sheet 12 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. Frame
Castle Elementary, 2016 Graphite and oil pastel on paper 22 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. Sheet 27 x 16 3/4 in. Frame
Impression Soleil Levant, Yesterday, 2013-2018 Graphite and oil pastel on paper 37 x 47 1/4 in. Sheet 40 3/8 x 50 1/4 in. Frame
Impression Soleil Levant, Yesterday (detail), 2013-2018
Installation View, 2019 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Robyn O’Neil lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She will be honored with a major solo exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth opening October of this year. O’Neil has previously had solo museum exhibitions with the Des Moines Art Center; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem. She has been included in the Whitney Biennial and in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Kemper Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and “Dargerism" at The American Folk Art Museum. Her work can be found in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art; the Menil Drawing Institute; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others. Additionally, Robyn O’Neil hosts one of the highest-rated poetry & literature podcasts, “ME READING STUFF.”
BIOGRAPHY
ROBYN O’NEIL Born in Omaha, NE, 1977 Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 University of Illinois at Chicago, Graduate Studies in Fine Art, University Fellowship, 2001 Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce TX, BFA, 2000 Kings College, London, England, British Studies, British Art and Architecture, 1997 Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
“The world has won. A final bow was taken,” Des Moines Art Center, Des
2019
“Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings,”
Moines, IA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort
“Come all that is quiet,” Dunn and
Worth, TX (upcoming)
Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
“An Unkindness,” Susan Inglett Gallery,
2009
NYC 2018
NYC
"Robyn O’Neil: We, The Masses,” Rose
“A World Disrupted,” Roberts and Tilton
Netzorg and James W. Kerr Gallery,
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Richmond Center for Visual Arts,
“The Dismantled,” Praz-Delavallade,
Western Michigan University,
Berlin, Germany
Kalamazoo, MI
“On sinking,” Tony Wight Gallery,
“Robyn O’Neil,” curated by Deasil, The
Chicago, IL
River Oaks Bank Tower, Houston, TX
2007
“We, The Masses,” College of Wooster 2017
Clementine Gallery, NYC “This is our ending, this is our past,”
“Robyn O’Neil: Something Vanished
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas,
for Contemporary Art (SECCA),
TX 2006
Winston-Salem, NC
France “Robyn O’Neil,“ Frye Art Museum,
NYC
Seattle; traveled to Herbert F. Johnson
“Castle Elementary,” Talley Dunn
Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Gallery, Dallas, TX
Ithaca, NY
“The Lost Show,” Western Exhibitions,
“Robyn O’Neil,” Contemporary Arts
Chicago, IL
Museum, Houston, TX 2005
hand,“ Clementine Gallery, NYC
“We, The Masses,” The McNay Art
“Take me gently through your troubled
“I Burned Waves,” Susan Inglett Gallery,
sky,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX 2004
NYC 2013
“And Then They Were Upon Him,” Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery,
“We Spoke Mirage,” Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2011
“My brother holds tight my feeble
Arts, Wichita, KS Museum, San Antonio, TX 2014
“As They Fall,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris,
“The Good Herd,” Susan Inglett Gallery,
“The Great Kansas Sea,” Harvester 2015
“This Is a descending world,”
Art Museum, Wooster, OH Over Paradise,” Southeastern Center
2016
“New Edition,” Susan Inglett Gallery,
Chicago, IL 2003
“International Artist in Residence
“I Want Blood,” Western Exhibitions,
Exhibition,” Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Chicago, IL
“Even If It Shall Break Them: The
“Hell,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Prelude To A Solid Hope For Something
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ROBYN O’NEIL Better,” Clementine Gallery, NYC
2002
Only, Los Angeles, CA
“They Walk, Fall, Continue, and Die,”
“Figurative Futures,” curated by Mark
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Murphy, 101 / EXHIBIT, Los Angeles, CA
“These are Pictures of Boats and
“Picture Show of the Mind: A Tribute to
Dinosaurs,” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas,
the Teachings of Lee Baxter Davis,”
TX
curated by Mark Burt, Meadows
“Beat Epiphanies and Home Runs,”
Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los
“Wild Life,” Des Moines Art Center, Des
Angeles, CA
Moines, IA
“SAM RAM,” Riverside Art Museum,
“Multiverse: Stories of This World and
Riverside, CA
Beyond,” Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO “Unapologetic Drawing,” Ralph Arnold
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University, 2022
“Telling Stories: Amy Cutler, Robyn O’Neil & Annie Pootoogook,” Toledo
2019
Chicago, IL 2016
Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Inaugural Exhibition, Ruby City, San
“Werewolf,” Charlie James Gallery, Los
Antonio, TX (upcoming)
Angeles, CA
“Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes
“Drawing Conclusions: Prints, Drawings
on Paper–Selections from the Museum’s
and Photographs,” RISD Museum,
Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
2018
Providence, RI 2015
“Hare & Hound Press + Artpace,” The
“AXxoN N: A Collective Commentary on
Art Collaboration, San Antonio, TX
David Lynch’s Inland Empire,” Essex
“Destination Unknown,” Talley Dunn
Flowers, NYC
Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Divided Brain,” LAVA Projects, Los
“Ducks,” Minotaur, Los Angeles, CA
Angeles, CA
“Robyn O'Neil & Matthew Sontheimer,”
“Approaching Landscape,” Sheldon
Brigham Young University Art Gallery,
Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2017
“Four Large Drawings,” Western
Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (upcoming)
Provo, UT 2014
“Shapeshifting: Contemporary
“Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by
Masculinities,” College of Wooster Art
19 Artists,” Steve Turner, Los Angeles,
Museum, Wooster, OH
CA
“Graphic Studio: Uncommon Practice at
“Fiery Rain and Movies, Cooling Sun,”
USF,” Tampa Museum of Art, FL
Season, Seattle, WA
“Head,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago,
“Reclaimed,” SPACE, the Linda Pace
IL
Foundation Gallery, Austin, TX
“Ducks,” Greenpoint Terminal Gallery,
“Joseph Yoakum + Robyn O’Neil,”
Brooklyn, NY
Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
“Drawn In / Drawn Out,” The Old Jail
“From Out Under,” curated by Lucien
Art Center, Albany, TX
Smith & Matthew Brown, Appointment
2013
“The Shorts,” Fantastic Fest, Austin, TX
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ROBYN O’NEIL
2012
2011
“Out of Commerce,” The McKinney
become sighs; we put all to rest, we said
Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
our goodbyes,” Electric Works, San
“Curator: Eli Jones, Heads of Family,”
Francisco, CA
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
“Toil and Trouble,” CTRL Gallery,
“About Face,” curated by Daniel
Houston, TX
Weinberg, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
“Drawings by,“ Praz-Delavallade, Paris,
“Where My Cones At?” Double Break,
France
San Diego, CA
“Supramundane,” AMBACH and RICE,
“Chris Hipkiss & Robyn O’Neil,” John
Seattle, WA
Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan,
“Houston Bicentennial,” The Joanna,
WI
Houston, TX
“Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of
2010
“Drawing In,” CADD ARTLAB, Dallas, TX 2008
Henry Darger,” American Folk
”Plain,” Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv,
Museum, NYC
Israel
“Close Encounters: Facing The
“Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition,”
Future,” The American University
The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
Museum, Washington, DC
(catalogue)
“The Flight of Fake Tears,” Inova
“Wild Kingdom,” Texas State
(Institute of Visual Arts), University of
University, San Marcos, TX
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
“Figured Spaces,” Schmidt Center
“Transfigure,” Kemper Museum of Art,
Gallery & Ritter Art Gallery, Atlantic
Kansas City, MO
University, Boca Raton, FL
“Summer Group Show,” Derek Eller
“Impressions: Prints Made in Texas,”
Gallery, NYC
The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
“Failure,” The Laboratory of Art and
“SHUT YOUR EYES IN ORDER TO
Ideas at Belmar (The Lab), Lakewood,
SEE,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
CO
“Private Collections II: Work from four
“Something New,” Dunn and Brown
Metroplex private collections,” The
Contemporary, Dallas, TX
University of Texas at Arlington,
“The Drawing Narrative,” Jenny
Arlington, TX 2009
“Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and
Water,” Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
“Trouble in Paradise: Examining the
Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007
“Drawing Is a Fine Art,” Museum of
Discord between Nature and Society,“
Fine Arts, Florida State University,
curated by Julie Sasse, Tucson
Tallahassee, FL
Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Sheldon Survey: An Invitational,”
“New Weather, with Robyn O’Neil,
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln,
Diana Al Hadid, and Iva Guerorguieva,”
NE
curated by David Norr, University of
“The Lizard Cult,” Clementine Gallery,
Southern Florida Contemporary Art
NYC
Museum, Tampa, FL
“Size Matters: Large Drawings from
“There does come a time when laughs
the MFAH Collection,” Museum of Fine
BIOGRAPHY
ROBYN O’NEIL Arts, Houston, TX
Lake Worth, FL
“New Directions in American
“Young Americans,” Hof and Huyser,
Drawing,” Columbus Museum; traveled
Amsterdam, Netherlands
to the Telfair Museum of Art in
“drawings...,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris,
Savannah; and Knoxville Museum of Art
France
in Knoxville, TN
“Landscape,” Rena Bransten, San
“Drawn to the Edge,” Adam Baumgold
Francisco, CA
Gallery, NYC
“Figure Out,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia,
“Don’t Look, Contemporary Drawings
PA
from an Alumna’s Collection,” Martina
“Untold Tales,” Adam Baumgold
Yamin, class of 1958, Davis Museum
Gallery, NYC
And Cultural Center, Wellesley
“Books and Shelves,” Gahlberg
College, Wellesley, MA
Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, Glen
“Paper Trails,” V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 2005
Ellyn, IL 2003
Texas,” curated by Suzanne Weaver
Kansas City, MO
and Lane Relyea, Dallas Museum of
“Art Forum Berlin,” through Praz
Art, Dallas, TX
Delavallade Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Artissima,” Inman Gallery, Turin, Italy
“20th-Anniversary Benefit
“The Company We Keep,” Inman
Silent Art Auction,” The Menil
Gallery, Houston, TX
Collection, Houston, TX
“Art Chicago,” Bodybuilder and
“The Texas Prize Exhibition,” finalist
Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Arthouse, Austin, TX
“Whim?” Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Trials and Terrors,” Museum of
“American Dream,” Ronald Feldman
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL “Drawing Narrative,” The College of
2004
“Come Forward: Emerging Art in
“Phantasmania,” Kemper Art Museum,
Fine Arts, NYC 2002
“Art Chicago,” Bodybuilder and
Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Sportsman, Chicago, IL
“Every Picture Tells A Story: The
“Bad Touch,” Ukranian Institute of
Narrative Impulse in Modern and
Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Art,” Galerie St.
“Drawn II,” Barry Whistler Gallery,
Etienne, NYC
Dallas, TX
“Whitney Biennial,“ Whitney Museum of
“Postcards from the Edge,” Visual
American Art, NYC
AIDS Benefit, Sperone Westwater
“The Drawn Page,” The Aldrich
Gallery, NYC
Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,
“Summer Drawings,” Mixture Gallery,
CT “It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in
Dallas, TX 2001
“Supernature,” Inman Gallery,
Contemporary Painting,” Spaces,
Houston, TX
Cleveland, OH
“Group Show of Gallery Artists,”
“I Feel Mysterious Today,” Palm
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery,
Beach Institute of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL
BIOGRAPHY
ROBYN O’NEIL “Pin-up, Bodybuilder and Sportsman 2000
becomes postcard art: Captivating
“Hi Jinx,” Arlington Museum of Art,
message in surprising packages,” Los
Arlington and University of Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX “Small Abstract Paintings and Sculpture,” Eugene Binder Gallery, NYC “Positexan Project,” curated by Michael Odom, Wichita, KS “4th Anniversary Show,“ Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
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Outstanding Triad Art Shows,” Winston
“Creatures, Lago Vista Gallery,” “Don’t Trust its Softness,” University of Texas - Dallas, Richardson, TX
Salem Journal, 23 December 2017. Ruiz, Miguel. “Loyola’s Fine Arts Complex Hosts ‘Unapologetic Drawing’ Exhibit,”
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Book Company With 2 Must-Have
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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Volume 18, Number 2, 2006. Enriquez, Lucia. “Galleries Dwelling in Imagined Worlds,” The Seattle Times, 2 June 2006. Wilson, John. “Museum Maestros,” The Sunday World-Herald, 8 October 2006. Fauntelroy, Gussie & Ganghelhoff, Bonnie, “21 Under 31,” Southwest Art Magazine, September 2006. French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,” Art Papers, July/August 2006. French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,” Flash Art, Nov/Dec. 2006. (ill.) Herbert, Lynn M. ROBYN O’NEIL, (exhibition catalogue) Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2006. (ill.) Johnson, Patricia C. “For young artist, the end is here,” Houston Chronicle, 7 February 2006. (ill.) Martinez, Michael. Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Volume 35, Number 2, 2006. Basha, Regine. “Arthouse Texas Prize 2005,” Austin: Arthouse, 2005. (ill.) Dailey, Meghan. “Portfolio: Contemporary Drawing,” Art + Auction, November 2005. (ill.) Dexter, Emma. VITAMIN D: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN DRAWING, London: Phaidon Press, 2005. (ill.) Egan, Maura. “High Art B Three Emerging Stars Draw From Fashion,” The New York Times Style Magazine, Fall 2005. (ill.) French, Christopher. “Robyn O’Neil,” Flash Art, Nov/December 2005. Kwon, Jean. “Emerging artists + $ 30 000 prize = Texas Excess,” Houston Chronicle, 23
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, KS Menil Collection, Houston, TX Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
TX Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2016 2013
2012
2010
Harvester Arts, Artist Residency,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Wichita, KS
PA
Nucci Award, Graphic Studio Florida
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Featured Short, Chicago Irish Film
Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
Festival
Rhode Island School of Design, Provincetown, RI
Spirit Award, Brooklyn Film Festival, NY
Sheldon Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
Best Horror, Dallas Video Festival, TX
Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
United States Artists Fellow Nominee
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University,
FRAMEWORKS Grant, Irish Film Board,
Wichita, KS
Dublin, Ireland
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Residency at Still Films, Dublin, Ireland 2009 2008
Hunting Art Prize Recipient, Houston,
WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/LECTURES/
TX
PANELS
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient, NYC
2005
Arthouse Texas prize Finalist, Austin, TX
2003
Artadia: The Fund For Art and Dialogue, Individual Artist Grant, NYC
“Nat. Brut Issue Five Release,” Carpenter Center for Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (28 March 2015) “On Drawing,” Symposium, Rice University, Houston, Texas. (20 March 2015)
International Artist in Residence, Artpace
CREATIVE WRITING
Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX 1999
O’Neil, Robyn, “Fall In Love With Me, Hannah
DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art,
Silverman,” Nat. Brut, Fiction-Issue 5,
Dallas, TX
Spring 2015.
BIOGRAPHY
ROBYN O’NEIL O’Neil, Robyn, “Mr. Belvedere Crisis,” Dark Fucking Wizard, 2015 O’Neil, Robyn, “The Secret Ally,” forward to Dan Siedell, “Who’s Afraid of Modern Art? Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation,” Cascade Books, 2015 O’Neil, Robyn, “Little Pink Lake,” Susan Inglett Gallery, 2014 O’Neil, Robyn, “The War Against Fossils,” USF Contemporary Art Museum, 2014 O’Neil, Robyn, “Forward, Iva Gueorguieva,” Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, 2014 O’Neil, Robyn, “Francesca Fuchs: Paintings of Paintings at Talley Dunn Gallery,” Glasstire, 2012
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